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A Blind Man Invented Cruise Control: What That Teaches Us About Product Sense

Inventor Ralph Teetor suffered a childhood accident that left him blind in both eyes, yet Teetor went on to invent “cruise control” for…

5 min readOct 27, 2022

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Utility Eats Value for Breakfast: About Diminishing Marginal Utility

Let’s look at the distinctions between a utility and a novelty, and why the utility always wins the race for value in the hearts and minds…

10 min readDec 26, 2023

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Utility Eats Value for Breakfast: About Diminishing Marginal Utility

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Is Your Product Roadmap Plastic Flowers at a Wedding?

Artificial flowers solve two user problems — they live forever and cost less than real flowers. Also — fake flower companies have made…

5 min readJun 1, 2022

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Is Your Product Roadmap Plastic Flowers at a Wedding?

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How A Blind Man Invented Cruise Control — A Lesson In Thorough Product Discovery

Ralph Teetor had a childhood accident that left him blind in both eyes, yet Teetor went on to invent “cruise control” for automobiles.

4 min readFeb 24, 2022

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How A Blind Man Invented Cruise Control — A Lesson In Thorough Product Discovery

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Thank You, But I’ve Had Too Much Value

Could Leveraging “Marginal Utility” Lead to a More Valuable Roadmap Strategy for Product Managers?

7 min readDec 11, 2021

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Thank You, But I’ve Had Too Much Value

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A Career in Product Management Taught Me All I Need to Know About Wilderness Survival

A few months ago, I was standing in a fast moving mountain stream with my five year old son and our dog….

6 min readJan 24, 2020

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A Career in Product Management Taught Me All I Need to Know About Wilderness Survival

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Eric Lippincott

Eric Lippincott

I mostly write about Product sense. Value is dependent on utility. Product @ Expedia Group. Previously Goldman Sachs & CHG Healthcare. Austin, Texas

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