Listen to the full episode here After a bit of a summer break… we’re very happy to share the next episode of the Clearly Product Book Club Podcast. For Episode 8, we chat about David and Tom Kelley’s book Creative Confidence. In this book, the IDEO cofounders (and brothers!) …

The time has come to shut down Quibb. If you don’t read any further, and used Quibb at any point — I’d like to simply say thank you, for trusting the product with your time and attention, and for contributing to what was imho one of the most helpful, forward-thinking…

I created a simple scripted ‘mebot’ last year dubbed SandiMacBot, that allowed you to have a conversation with a bot version of me. She explored some interesting ideas: How do we scale human communication? Can people build on their existing relationship with you (or create a new relationship) by interacting…

Anna Marie and I found that while we are basically constantly writing — emails, blog posts, proposals — we haven’t read anything beyond a few blog posts on how to become better writers…

Know what information you need, but don’t want to go through the hassle of all the manual research to get it? That’s one of the core insights behind Growthbot, a new Slackbot from Hubspot. …

This week, we’re taking a bit of a detour — more like a rewind — in the Tuesday Bot Teardown series. I was chatting with Stefan Bohacek (of Botwiki) about the teardown series, and he suggested that I look at Twitter bots. While most Twitter bots are too simplistic to…

When choosing which book to read next for Episode 2 of the Clearly Product Book Club Podcast, Anna Marie and myself decided that something related to communications would be ideal. It’s basically the core of what the PM role entails. All of the overly focused ‘how to communicate with your…

As a Canadian in the valley, I’ve been trying to keep up with the current election, while also learning about the US political system. I’ll read random articles friends recommend, I’ve watched the debates, and enjoy chatting about the two presidential candidates and their campaigns. …

For the first episode of the Cleary Product Book Club Podcast, Anna Marie Clifton and I chose an Alan Cooper (of Cooper Design) standard, published back in 1999. The book dives into why software needs to start with design, and explains some of the core problems associated with building software…