Hats off to the PM at Zoom who decided that -- when I am late for a call with others waiting -- the most important action I want to take at that moment is installing an update. One with with no stated benefit.

💯 I’ve found that flexible blank canvases such as Google Docs or Figma can solve most needs while retaining flexibility for your specific situation. Less worry about if you are using them right versus what are you trying to do.

Wondering if anyone who is great at HTML can help me debug an email today? Trying to fix a simple table that looks good on screen but gets messed up when sent from HubSpot... DM me. Thanks in advance!

Join Prodify & David Jesse for a free workshop "Addressing the top 10 Dysfunctions of Product Management." We'll discuss PM failure modes & how to combat them. 📆 January 11 @ 11a PT/2p ET 🎟️ Register for free: eventbrite.com/e/how-to-addre… Learn more: prodify.group/blog/how-to-ov…

Surprised Chicago isn't in US top 10. • Cost of living helps, but devs often compare comp > cost • Few FAANG-like roles here with upper limit to advancement • Skew towards ops-heavy vs. tech-heavy startups We supply great talent e.g. UIUC. More work to do to retain it...

Who created this? It's perfect & I would love to credit.

Mixed stats for Chicago, third largest MSA/3% of U.S. by population: • #9/2% of total in capital invested • Not in top 10/<=1% for AI rounds • Leapfrogged by Pittsburgh, Houston, Miami for AI Boston, San Diego are bigger % than I expected; Seattle, Miami (given hype) smaller

I had completely forgotten about this post from when 1871 opened up. Almost 12 years later, how are we doing in Chicago? A New Home for the Startup Community blog.1871.com/blogs/a-new-ho…

Science, mathematics, statistics. Curve Fitting. (Note that the data-points in each example are the same.) By Randall Munroe, xkcd.com/2048/, cc by-nc 2.5

Chuck: "I have not been to Minnesota in probably 20 years." Ant: "Bring ya ass!" 😂

📊 Founders & investors: while the Bay Area dominates funding, other ecosystems are thriving. Don’t underestimate non-Bay area startups! h/t Carta

I was lucky to join a Product Invitational roundtable yesterday led by ZoCo Design & hosted by Drive Capital with many top Chicago PM leaders. Valuable discussion & amazing group. DM me if you should be included in future events or want to join a Chicago PM leader Slack group.

As an undergraduate economics major and career product manager, I love this.

The life-changing power of Missions:

Have you heard of Conway's Law? It's an interesting observation about the root cause of why large organizations usually make products worse. In 1967 Melvin Conway wrote "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication

Why toxic leaders get promoted

John Mulaney getting on stage and mercilessly mocking everyone at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read

My X account was taken over 2/12/25 and I only recovered it on 3/1/25. Apologies for any inappropriate content sent during that time. If you started following me for reasons besides Technology Product or Arsenal, you are in the wrong place... a lot of new followers I removed.

In October, I moderated a discussion on how people are using AI. Last night, I attended a similar meetup. Then: most were doing content editing & personal queries e.g. vacation ideas. Now: many are coding their own apps, even non-technical people. It's changing fast. Hang on!

I did a podcast with Jonathan Ozeran from Tempus on building high-impact product teams through disciplined leadership and customer focus 🎙️ We covered what separates high-impact teams from busy teams, plus a few basketball metaphors... Please give it a listen and comment below!