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The Coming Traffic Apocalypse

AI Search summaries are already impairing the engine that funds large swaths of the internet. The cure might be worse than the ads

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That time: Review Season

It is review season, and the Dude will once again do the heavy lift for his boss. It is the least rewarding part of working in corporate America. He just wishes that management would do their job.

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The big Unga-Bunga

Hmmm, an unexpected promotion, turns out to be a gigantic negative. Death by Unga Bunga.

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Sometimes, it works...

Some times the stars align, and a feature request just gets done. Time to buy a lottery ticket me thinks.

sales

Sales and Bad Business

Sales thinks they rule the roost, and in some ways they do, but Product Management knows how to do maths, and we can figure out what it will cost

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Forensic Accounting

Not product management, but the Dude has experienced an investigation with a Forensic Accountant, and he suspects that Trump and the Trump Organization is gonna rue the day.

leadership

Executive Fluffing

NSFW warning. Imagine being a professional Executive Fluffer. They do exist, and lawdy, the Dude doesn't envy them.

Product Management

The Case of Parler

Parler, the conservative version of Twitter, offers an interesting study for product management. Bear with the Dude on this long read

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Not this shit again…

The Dude mostly has a hate-hate more relationship with Biz Dev. This is an example of why.

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Past Glories

Once in a while, you will return to something you have done in the past, and you will be surprised at how *good* it was.

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The Shoe Dropping

The pandemic is wreaking havoc, but you would hardly know from looking at the stock market. But long term, structural change is a coming

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Sales Brain-power

Companies like to think they hire the best and brightest. That just ain't true. The Dude reminisces about an event early in his career that still causes him to chuckle