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What I’m Doing Wrong

Yah. I said it. I’m doing some­thing very wrong. In fact, with respect to blog­ging and social media, it relates to one of the biggest pieces of advice I’d give other peo­ple. Not that I’m such a big advi­sor, I just have a big mouth and am “a lit­tle” opin­ion­ated. That advice is “par­tic­i­pate” in […]

A Linked In Tip

You know that feel­ing you get when something’s just not right? I get that feel­ing every time I get an imper­sonal Linked In invite to con­nect. I reg­u­larly get invites from peo­ple I haven’t spo­ken to in quite some time. I’m amazed at how often those invites are the default “I’d like to add you […]

The Details ARE the Product

The devil’s def­i­nitely in the details. And, it all falls on the shoul­ders of the Prod­uct Man­ager. Prod­uct Man­agers own the mun­dane task of prod­uct spec­i­fi­ca­tions, roadmaps, pric­ing, and so on along with prod­uct vision and direc­tion. It’s also their respon­si­bil­ity to make sure it all comes together in a pack­age that makes sense. Take a […]

Happiness. It’s Contagious… I Hope!

I feel bad that I’ve let this blog slip. In part because some­times I strug­gle with all the social noise and the feel­ing of irrel­e­vance sets in. Though, in large part it’s because I’m freak­ing busy! My days are full of Actional (I’d love to tell you how great we’re doing, but alas we’re a public […]

The Human Spark

I had the oppor­tu­nity to see Alan Alda host a panel at the World Sci­ence Fes­ti­val in NYC Fri­day night. Because of the non-profit I’m launch­ing, I was curi­ous about the topic, “What It Means to Be Human: The Enigma of Altru­ism”. A brief update on that front is in order. We’re almost incor­po­rated, we […]