Feeling the Disconnect?
When you're moving fast on a million things at once, ownership slips. Some thoughts on why the disconnect happens on a team — and how to close it.
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Posts
Notes, essays, and technical writing.
The Art of Fast Delivery
A talk co-presented at Product Tank Athens on the mechanics and philosophy behind instacar's culture of velocity — empowerment, meetings, strategy over OKRs, and doing over planning.
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A Smooth Release
How instacar shipped 12- and 24-month leasing plans: from customer signal to design to a cross-team launch — and why a smooth release is a compound-effect story.
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Internal Resistance
How instafleet went from a tool various departments were skeptical of to one they rely on — by involving people early, through Ticket Master and co-speccing features.
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Embracing Second-Level Thinking
Laurence Endersen's second-level thinking — probing past the obvious first answer — and why it's invaluable in product management.
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How Many Weeks Do You Have Left?
A four-line Python program that quantifies your life in weeks — and a small nudge, from product management's forward-looking world, to be present.
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1st instacar Hackathon
Our first hackathon — product, marketing, and tech in one room for a day, building LeaseAi, an AI-driven chatbot, with a 'less is more' design philosophy.
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Prophet Forecasting
A step-by-step walk through forecasting and anomaly detection with Prophet in a Colab notebook — from data format to fitting a model to reading the components.
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Be the Problem Solver in the Room
Two reminders I hold close in stressful cross-functional meetings, carried over from my marketing days: be prepared, and be the problem solver in the room.
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Velocity over Everything
Notes on Geoff Charles (VP Product at Ramp) on team velocity and single-threaded teams — and why we're taking a calculated bet on a similar structure at instacar.
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