Posts in Product Design

Equity compensation

Disclaimer: I’m not a financial expert, and I’ve worked only with a few Fintech startups. I’ve run into different positions […]

One of the things I like about writing is you can ship something faster. I’ve never seen a one-line of […]

“Let’s import this 100GB CSV into a PostgreSQL table.” One simple ask, articulated correctly, might seem to reduce the cost […]

To me, the magic phrase is “I need that.” Even better, if I hear “that’s exactly what I needed” music […]

I don’t recall exactly where I learned this, but I know I’ve been using them successfully on many startups. Each […]

Is my data really accurate? The general wisdom goes: “the more accurate data we have, the better decisions we make.” […]

Product Design 07/19/22

Who is driving your Product Development? You will get very different products if your CTO, CMO, CEO, or even users […]

Product Design 01/25/21

A developer wants to learn new technologies and solve a technically challenging problem. A product manager wants to build something […]

Product Design 09/26/20

Building new products, at its core, is to produce more outputs with the same inputs. To do the same, but […]

Product Design 09/01/20

It is tempting to ask engineers more than it was estimated for. “While you are at this, why don’t you […]

Product Design 08/31/20