“Shop Like a Billionaire” reads the strap-line for Temu on the Google Playstore. Temu is a new eCommerce platform, operated by Pinduoduo, China’s second largest shopping app. In September ’22 Temu launched its mobile app and website, which are both available to US customers only. Temu offers products in a…

Listening to some of the music samples generated by text, and you get a good idea of what Google’s MusicLM has been designed to do. Here you can find 30-second snippets created from descriptions that list a genre, specific instruments or a vibe.

Ever heard of Melvin Kranzberg? Kranzberg (1917–1995) was a professor of history of technology at Georgia Tech. Kranzberg is best known for his Six Laws of Technology: Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral Invention is the mother of necessity Technology comes in packages, big and small …

It feels like a lifetime ago when I first wrote about product management practices at Amazon. Nine years ago I write a post about product management at Amazon. Since then I’ve come across a number of valuable practices that have out of Amazon, and the thinking behind them. Reading “Working…

My summary of BeReal before using it — A very popular social media app, probably targeting the same audience as TikTok. How does BeReal explain itself in the first minute? — “bereal. your friends for real” is what I see when I search for BeReal on the app store. …

If there’s one thing I’ve noticed about the product management space is that it’s rife with new terms and concepts. I love how product management is a space that’s evolving constantly, so it’s natural that there will always be new terms and concepts. It can be confusing though!* …

My summary of Forma Vision before using it — Enabling meetings in the Metaverse. How does Forma Vision explain itself in the first minute? — The first thing I see on Forma Vision is a popup that mentions a name change “because Forma Vision better communicates how our service enhances…

“Thinking in bets starts with recognising that there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck. Learning to recognise the difference between the two is what thinking in bets is all about.” Annie Duke, “Thinking in Bets”

“It is the system that governs the behaviour” John Seddon et al, “Beyond Command and Control” “Beyond Command and Control” starts off with clarifying the two main words in the book title. ‘Command’ means that managers make all the decisions and workers do as they’re told. The authors — John…