: Beating the System I find software and technology very interesting, and I’ve worked at related startup companies for …
: "Vote for This Sleazy Lunatic" Maybe I should just continue endlessly posting societal questions that were answered thirty years …
: Are they saying "boo" or "boo-urns?" Sometimes I find it hard to motivate myself to put together my thoughts about society into …
: Layoffs To downsize, or not to downsize? That is the question, apparently. See, my theory is that this is …
: The Journey Struggling to make software work is a really specific type of experience, and you either get that …
: Narratives I've had a lot of fun and done some cool things working at companies that lose more money than they …
: Major Scale One thing I think a LOT of smart people misunderstand is that the power of computers is always …
: "Am I so out of touch?" Some time around my freshman year of college, my Dad's company gave him a phone with Windows CE on …
: Push, push, push Football has always had problems, but from a fan experience perspective, it was basically the …
: Abolishing Things I get why people are hesitant to abolish large parts of the government. I also get why, despite …
: Resolution 2026: Like The Phoenix Except It's Still Currently in The Ashes It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, not much has changed. Resolution remains stable, functional, …
: Actually, Hacks are Bad If I may — a "hack" is not a good thing. At their best, hacks are clever, temporary exploits that …
: Rage as a Service Trolling people is easier than being funny or clever. This is not a new challenge, but here we are, …
: Accountablli-Buddy My Theory of Productivity Allow me a theory. I probably didn't invent this, but if I did, bully for …
: Sure, Jan The story of 2025 continues to be — never concede anything. Just stare ahead as you plow into the …
: Incredulity Every day, there are many things I don't do because I think they are fundamentally wrong. Some of …
: Real-World Vibe Coding It's been a couple years since I took my first look at generative AI and concluded that the most …
: Uneventful For the last year, I've had to do a bunch of event logistics for work, and... I really did not …
: Competence Theater I have worked at many places. Without exception, the biggest challenge every one of them faced …
: Work is Weird, Weird is Hard One cool thing about life, or at least my life, is that as I've gotten older and moved around, I've …
: The Nothing App I'm 43 years old, and I've been consuming technology products and working in tech basically my …
: Wholly Lawless This is an insane sentence to read in a story on a federal court ruling: There is little to no …
: Intentionally Spread Thin OpenAI is shoving more stuff out the door that seems very early, very ambitious, and very janky. …
: The Employees You Want Max Read has a secondary potential motivation (other than sucking up to an incoming Presidential …
: Three Pointers and The Angry Mob John Hollinger is the first big, respected basketball name I've seen take a counterpunch at the …
: Year in Review (sort of) This isn't quite an end-of-year post, but technically, we are approaching the end of the year, so …
: Never Good Enough For some reason, WordPress has decided to incinerate itself. It's true, but not really true, …
: Planning Your Digital Advertising Strategy with The Unstoppable Irony Machine Known as Resolution As previously decided, I'm now hard at work at my full-time, undisclosed occupation, saving up …
: Visionaries I was ranting to my wife the other night about how frustrating it is that so much energy is going …
: The Theoretical Beauty of the Legislative Branch I’ve been reading John Roberts rulings since I was a pre-law undergraduate student, and simply put… …
: "complimentary chiropractic adjustment" This is funny, informed, profane, and generally delightful. Most organizations cannot ship the most …
: AI'll Believe It When I See It As someone who’s been deep (trapped, often) in the Apple ecosystem since 1987, it’s very important …
: Good Things - Bad Things = The Things This is a pretty incredible look at (among other things) how their best player being such a massive …
: Instagram: Now With More, Worse Ads I’ve worked almost entirely in B2B (or B2B2C) software, so I’ve never had the now borderline cliche …
: Someone Else Further Down the Stack I mentioned this when I first saw it, but I just cannot get over this ridiculous interview with the …
: Dirty Basketball When assessing the “dirty” aspect of a basketball play, a good but non-all-encompassing question to …
: Can I Do This With MarsEdit? I sure hope so. I am really sick of logging into bloated web applications. While we’re at it, let’s …
: Zoom Delusion I don't know a polite way to say it, but the CEO of Zoom sounds like he's completely lost his mind. …
: Anti-Social Media Quitting social media over the last five years has been a net positive for me, but I do miss having …
: The Excesses of Art & The Limitations of Science When I'm not pretending to be a tech visionary, I work in product marketing. This means that …
: Prompts, Web Applications, & the Death of Accountability I have a theory for where things are going, and I don't like it. Web Apps I could write a big giant …
: Resolution 2024 (and beyond!) TLDR: Resolution doesn't make enough money to allow me to make Resolution better -- which is a …
: DOJ vs. Apple is a Bad Idea I'll open with a caveat. This is, unfortunately, how the United States does regulation now -- …
: North Stars I just happened to read/hear two very different -- but oddly related -- things on the way back from …
: Sellouts Andy Baio has a really, really great post on the long, slow failure of a social media site called …
: Quick Thoughts from the Green Goblin of Generative AI Okay, I'm going to let you in on a secret. One of the reasons I'm so frosty about the gap between …
: The Last Mile I make a lot of generative AI jokes, because they’re obvious, and because they’re hilarious. But, …
: Work Paste As I’ve gotten older, one thing I’ve started to realize is that there are many different kinds of …
: My Spreadsheet Cannot Fail, It Can Only BE Failed One of Resolution's biggest marketing failures has been Reddit. When I was first preparing for the …
: Say Hello to the Microsoft Excel Solver No, "Iterative Calculations" is not the name of my new band Product Marketing 101 (a class I am …
: Very Quickly Sketching Out User Acquisition Costs I've spent a lot of time trying to get Resolution to represent the most complicated scenarios it …
: Managing Hours & Possibilities As mentioned earlier this summer, our CTO Brian Cunningham has decided to reassign all …
: Humility Unelected! Unpopular! Lifetime appointments! Self-enforced ethics rules! Very little documentation …
: The Michael Scott Paper Company Golf Association Major news in a sport I don't care that much about, but have been unable to ignore because the …
: 5 Resolution Things You Should Do Right Now (Post title inspired by 2013-style listicle clickbait. You're welcome.) Resolution is still a very …
: Sneak Peak: Resolution Refactor We like to stay ahead of the curve here at Resolution. So when I heard people were writing actual …
: Bad Ethics, Bad Products AI bots make stuff up. This is not new; in fact, it's so commonplace that people aren't even phased …
: Onboarding, Payments, and a Shiny Model Index Couple of big announcements here at Resolution HQ. Before handing it off to my new favorite …
: Tell me more about this "revenge" concept In the Wall Street Journal today: Obviously, I immediately thought of my favorite mayor. And with …
: Good Goals Gone Bad Life with Goals Like most professionals, I have been dealing with goals for most of my career. …
: Meet Resolution's New Artificial CTO Now that we're live, Resolution is making some important staffing decisions. …
: Resolution 1.0 Is Live Big news! The new and improved, public version of Resolution is live and ready to use. It's still …
: On Pricing & Sharing Given that we’re approaching the initial launch of Resolution, there’s a lot to be excited about. …
: Actually, Top Gun: Maverick is Bad I am not a shitposter, I swear. I don't even really have time to construct inflammatory takes, let …
: Resolution 1.0 - Coming in February! (Note: Things are starting to get real, which means that after this post, I am going to shift the …
: Elon's Twitter Will Fail This is one of those topics that doesn't seem like it needs me to add to it, as most of the smart, …
: I Failed to Raise Fifty Thousand Dollars in Crowdfunding and So Can You If you're unaware, I recently launched a Kickstarter campaign in an attempt to raise $50,000 for my …
: The Unstoppable Bullshit Robot Just like you can spend months rolling out critical back-end improvements to a software application …
: Why is Easy Business Math So Hard? Years ago, I was a new-ish employee at a startup that was both (a) 100% set on becoming a massive …
: Liter of Cola Without thinking that hard about it (and probably moderating my red hot take as a result), this is …
: You Fix What You can Reach Elephants One consistent factor across the now numerous early-stage companies I've worked at for …
: Relationships without Formulas People often ask me for a very simple, very short, "instagram for dogs" like explanation of what …
: Viva La Resolution At the end of February, I left my job at Botify after an extremely eventful two years. I enjoyed my …
: Everything Costs I have been lucky enough to work -- mostly -- in places that are primarily motivated by …
: Angles, Superfruits, and Supply Chains This is a weird angle, for a couple reasons. There's a fairly exhaustive amount of reporting in …
: Engage I saw this piece on Eric Clapton's sudden turn to COVID politics in the Washington Post, and …
: About Understanding The Department of Why I have been working in something called “Product Marketing” for a long time …
: Decency This afternoon I saw this WSJ quote on Twitter: In case the tweet dies (and the tweet always seems …
: Moving Fast and Changing Nothing In my line of work, I hear a lot about “MVP”, or “minimum viable product”. I complain about MVP all …
: The Two Kinds of Decisions (I hate when people try to make some facet of their little niche industry into a professional …
: Empathy is Not Experience, and... That's Okay If there’s anything decent people have come to realize over the last year, it’s that many of us …
: Nobody's Perfect Two of the say, maybe six companies that run the world are fighting. This time, it's Facebook and …
: Legitimacy, Enforcement, and What Comes After I am not the first person on the internet to tell you that since 2016, the number one thing that’s …
: Customer Data & the Immovable Object The number one obsession in digital marketing for the last decade or so has been targeting. For all …
: We Are Out of Ideas This just eats at my soul. Grocery workers across the country say morale is crushingly low as the …
: Problem Solving The NBA started back up this week, and it’s nice to have it back in my life, even if the whole thing …
: "Marketing" In general, having kids has been pretty detrimental to my brain, at least in terms of raw cognitive …
: Applied Compliance It's only my opinion, but one of the more interesting things I've written (and then promptly lost …
: Where The Good Jobs Are, (Part 2) One of the funny things about any kind of economic system is that, by definition, you learn a lot …
: Where The Good Jobs Are, (Part 1) One time, when I was in college — at some point in the dreary middle, so let’s say 2002-2003-ish — …
: Editorial Independence and Money Like any normal reader, I have mixed and varied reactions to the things posted on Deadspin, a …
: The Clueless Majority It's been an interesting couple of years for minority-majority relations. So many of the different …
: The Urban Millennial Lifestyle There are -- and for some time, have been -- a lot of dumb, unprofitable business ideas designed to …
: Little Data I never really had to think about actual business data until about five years ago. Before that, …
: What are we even DOING here? For those of you keeping score, this here marks at least the fifth time I've re-assembled and (for …
: Why OKRs Kind Of Suck The last two companies I’ve worked for have used OKRs, a system for company, team, and employee …
: Thanks, John John Anderson, my friend and co-worker at Bamboo, passed away from ALS this week. I’ve thought about …
: Persecution I was reading a bunch of posts about how Christian conservatives can/should/will gracefully adapt to …
: Mailing It In I’m not very good at pretending to like things. I don’t like manually doing repetitive work that …
: Things We Don't Understand You can divide all the people who might care, or might find it interesting that a company like …
: Animation, Energy, and "The Third Heat" For someone who is an admittedly terrible artist, I’ve always liked working with animation, even as …
: Your Real Problems (note from the future : this is from back when I was freelancing) "It hurts when I do this." Well, …
: Death by Wedding Does the wedding-industrial complex deserve some of the blame for decline of marriage? Serious Q …
: Garage Bands and Agile Development Last year, me and the other guys in Six Foot Machine put out our first release, (get it here for …
: About Capital You know what’s worse than the government wasting money? That money not getting spent at all. …
: The Weakerthans & My Cat I first heard The Weakerthans in 2002, when we were in school in DC for the semester, working on …
: When Product Quality is Inherently Optional Betanews tries to figure out if anyone’s going to be able to compete with the iPad, and comes up …
: Anti-Social Media I have a pretty obvious love-hate relationship with social media. For simplicity’s sake, and to …
: The Case of the Missing Cell Phone A couple of months ago, a got a new phone for the first time in five years. Given that I work with …
: Quarters (new 2023 editor's note): I finally scraped this out of an old SQL file. It's not actually very …