The times they are a-changin’

In January 1984, a young Steve Jobs recited the second verse of the timeless Bob Dylan classic, “The times they are a-changin’” in his opening of the 1984 Apple shareholders meeting, where he famously unveiled the Macintosh computer for the first time.

Match sharpness

Late last year, I started playing the game Football Manager again after over ten years. And I’ve been playing more of it in the past few weeks in the added time on hand due to the lockdown.

In the game, there is an attribute called ‘match sharpness’. Even the best of…

Design thinking vs Grand Design

Most product companies today operate in a model that embodies design thinking — where they constantly discover user needs, validate ideas and ship incremental improvements. In such companies, individual product teams are empowered to decide what features to introduce, how…

Likes and Dislikes

To like something is to have experienced something and to want to experience it again.

To dislike something is to have experienced something and to not want to experience it again.

Good FOMO, bad FOMO

FOMO. Fear of missing out.

Missing out on what, though?

We can have a fear of missing out on what everyone else is doing, what’s trending right now, what’s that new thing that’s going viral right now, what’s the latest gossip, etc. And this…

Equivalent exchange

As I continue to watch Fullmetal Alchemist, I see the universality of the core concept of Alchemy in the show — that of equivalent exchange.

In the show, you need to give up something to obtain something of equivalent value. That is how matter is deconstructed and…

Helping others see

For a long time, whenever someone outside the industry who has no clue about what product management is would ask me to explain what I do, I would tell them that I identify problems and solve problems.

Equivalent Exchange

This week, I started watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

The foundational concept of alchemy in the show has a simple law — the law of equivalent exchange. While Alchemy is the science of transforming a form of matter into a different form of matter, it can…

Hindsight bias

New York city has had a very high number of cases of the Coronavirus, and the peak is still a week or two away if you are to listen to the experts.

They could have probably prevented it from escalating to such an extent had they acted earlier and introduced stricter social…

Strengths and Weaknesses

In any area that we are focusing on — from playing football to making powerpoint presentations, we have some strengths and some weaknesses.

As we look to make improvements, we can focus on doubling down on our strengths and amplifying them or we can focus on…