Product Management Stop Reading This and Start Coding The distance between an idea and a product has never been shorter.
Product Analysis Featured What Calendly Reveals About Our Nature A digression into one of my favorite topics: how we use language to play an invisible game of status
Notes Tyler Cowen on Effective Altruism A summary of Tyler Cowen's talk on the Effective Altruism movement.
Product Analysis Community: The Unfakeable Signal Signals are everywhere. Some are more reliable than others.
Lifting Better Charts for Post-Novice Lifting Analysis As training becomes more complex, how could a lifting app better visualize progress?
Product Analysis Featured The 'I Did That' Effect: Why Gamification (Sometimes) Works Understanding the science of motivation can help us design better products.
Data Did COVID Erase My Endurance Gains? Shortly after I published my last post, I got COVID. How much of my training progress did I lose?
Data It's Nice to be a Novice: Using Data to Identify Endurance Gains I recently decided that some endurance training would be good for me. It’s been fun to experience novice training gains.
Lifting Featured Using Data to Motivate the Post-Novice Lifter Everyone can use a little extra motivation. So let's get creative with PRs.
Storytelling Featured All Understanding is Visual: Why Aristotle Writes With Pictures Imagery in writing is not an accident, but an insight into how our minds work.
Storytelling You Only Get One Triangle: Storytelling Is the Art of Attention Towards a Theory of Storytelling
Product Management Building a Learning Culture: The Problem of Organizational Knowledge Product managers are well positioned to turn organizational learning into a competitive advantage.
Great Books Homer & Helen: My Twenty-Year Odyssey Through the Iliad The Iliad demanded I consider what my life would add up to.
Great Books Resentment in the Oresteia: The Power of the People In a world without kings, where does power come from?
Design A Year on the Bike: 12 Months of Commuting to Work Without a Car Reflecting on a year of behavior change.
Design The 'Science' of Good Design: A Dangerous Idea Designers embrace scientism at their own peril.
