Figured out why dogs wag their tails.

Are personal playbooks a thing?

Maybe there's a future trend of work with AI that looks more like artisans for billionaires.

You haven't lived until you've spent your Tuesday evening reading poopedia.org

Feature idea for in-store grocery apps: estimate how many carrier bags you should bring with you.

Probably about time for another bank holiday

Unexpected snow on mount everest?

#Weeknotes 479, escalators and mazes, standups at scale, agile decision-making, product leader’s talks, triage scale, probabilistic product development and the strategy is relevance. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/weeknotes-479/

There are only two types of products: escalators and mazes. Escalators take users from one place to another. Mazes keep users within the maze. rogerswannell.com/blog/escalators-and-mazes/

I wonder if weird eating habits show up in supermarket sales data.

Might as well just put all my data online and get ahead of the hackers.

Why would you own a cool domain name like cyb.org and not do anything with it?

#Weeknotes 478, featuring Domain Driven Design and Opportunity Space Mapping, team skills, money talks, software-as-a-sign, probabilistic product development, Swiss cheese risks and AI hypocrisy. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...

Everyone who lives here is out of options.

Number plate: BR05 HGV Pop duo get into the transport industry

Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

Discretionary quality > discretionary effort

#Weeknotes 477, featuring experiments, success state roadmaps, space stations, AI product management, power in digital healthcare, conveyor belts and mazes, fixed and variable value, automation cost calculator and evolution of digital products. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/weeknotes-477/

Saw Trump

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

If it was that simple we'd all be project managers.

Saw ISS

#Weeknotes 476, featuring the wisdom of think big, start small, learn fast, product equals core competency, impact mapping metrics, responding to change, bounded context, and what's the difference between an internal product team and a platform team? rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...

Just realised that guy in House was in Dead Poets Society. Why didn't anyone tell me?

Working on my abs... =ABS(2) =ABS(-2) =ABS(A2)

Test failed

I thought I was training the dog to drop his ball in return for treats, but he knew he was training me to give him treats by dropping his ball.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket, but also don't put all your eggs each in their own baskets.

Oppenheimer is rubbish

Does anyone actually know what power their microwave is?

Simplest place in the world

Think big, start small, learn fast. Six words to live by.

#Weeknotes 475, featuring opportunities, optimising meetings, loops over lists, conversational and interfacing AI, opportunities to outcomes, fundamental questions for roles, strategy briefs and predicting delivery. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...

So you're telling me we can't get the medication to treat dangerously low blood pressure because three highly-qualified, well-paid doctors can't agree who's responsible for checking interaction with other medications.

Maybe Ted 2 is a really clever commentary on social responsibility.

What does this tell you about: - roles and their relationship to the work? - where product managers should focus? - what key questions roles should have in mind?

Objectives are what we achieve for ourselves. Outcomes are what we achieve for others.

Hey @producttalk.bsky.social 👋 Should an opportunity solution tree only contain opportunities the team is going after? So, if a team maps out an opportunity and then decides not to go after it, should they remove it from the map or keep it as record of that decision? Thank you

#Weeknotes 474, featuring dialectic product skills, real AI lessons, the dangers of GenAI website content, having time for people, value exchange, build-run-own-adopt, and the AI essay writing problem. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/weeknotes-474

Who's copying who?

#Weeknotes 473, featuring early problem validation, opportunity space, managing work in our heads, topology of university products, product teams focusing on the right thing, Markov chains for delivery predictions and go with what you know or find something new. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...

Don't know about you but I've never solved a worthwhile problem on the first attempt.

Still is

#Weeknotes 472, featuring one ring to rule them all, product strategy + NSM + OKRs, law of complexity, AI product discovery, ambiguous outcomes, university products, and marginal gains. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...

Being a procrastinator is better than being an amateur crastinator.

#Weeknotes 471, featuring moments of truth, collaborative problem solving, north star metric, persuasive technology, complexity, what product managers need from a product operating model, and the strength of weak ties in organisational structure. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...

Wow! www.yogafinder.com/index.cfm

This week's book. Definitely looking forward to it.

#Weeknotes 470, featuring cross-team coordination, product strategy workshop, increasing luck, AI ethics literacy, product teams change behaviour, bias for action, and unanswerable questions. rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...