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Culture and Grokking it at Meta

Understanding organizational culture is so important to building great products. I recently worked with a team from the MIT AI Lab, where I worked with Prof. Patrick Winston, the head of the lab. Since then, I joined fast-growing startups, Oracle‘s growth stage, and Meta, while some of these worked at Google. I notice that, as…

Reinforcement Learning and Altman

Front row with Sam Altman of OpenAI at the Bloomberg Technology Summit with host and executive producer Emily Chang! Sam’s superpower is that he is a strategic thinker—he is able to look around the corner faster than anyone else in our technology industry. We all aspire to do this in Tech! Mission—“I am excited to…

Decision-Making and Jeff Bezos

I subscribe to Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited and Audible, where I can either read or listen to articles, books and podcasts that I would otherwise not have seen. While searching both these databases is cumbersome, occasionally I will see a gem emerge. Today, one of the Kindle gems was Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of…

The Method behind the Madness

You might wonder: how are product roadmaps designed, or, as some may jest “is there a method behind the madness?” While the method is different for B2C products at any company, in B2B there are clear principles to follow when building for and selling to large teams. Here’s a template that has worked for some…

Thin Slicing and Product Decisions

The expression “thin slicing” was coined in a 1992 article in the Psychological Bulletin. It describes people’s ability to detect patterns in an event even if they experience only a narrow portion of that event. People who watched a series of brief, silent videos of a teacher reached similar judgments about the teacher as did students…