Pondering Product Management Roles, Responsibilities and Risks
I have been speaking to people lately about Product Management, how the roles and responsibilities vary from coast to coast and from market to market, things product managers have in common, how the role varies from organization to organization and the risks in the back of the minds of so many Product Managers.
Some things that all product managers have in common:
Good product managers know who their customer is (including inside the company)and can articulate their end-to-end user journey. They think about the entire life cycle of their customers experience with their…
Put your money where your mouth is and carry a spare.
Almost everyone by now has likely run into a “mask-shamer”:
- The woman who when she sees someone who is not wearing a mask walking 20 yards away in an open field in the countryside feels the need to walk close enough to be heard and yell “You should be wearing a mask!” , rather than simply walking by at a distance.
- The man on a bicycle on one side of the road who slows going downhill to shout at the couple on the other side of the road “Where…
Many women of a certain age have hit a stress or hormone-driven phase of their lives where sleep is uncertain or they wake with their brains spinning like gerbils on a wheel.
Many self-medicate with wine or other alcoholic beverages, while others reach out to their physicians and are told that “many women of a certain age find Prozac or (fill in the blank) helpful” or “let me see if we can try this sleep medication.” This is usually followed by a warning that the medications can be addictive or require gradual tapering on and off to avoid…
Why Implementing AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare Settings is so challenging
A few notes, before we start:
- While I have been trained as a scientist, I am not a medical doctor. This means I took this course on Coursera for non-AMA points as a certificate.
- Based on the number of typos and recording blips, etc. I expect was one of the first to try out the course series.
- The link to the course series can be found here: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ai-healthcare
Format:
The format of the course series is a sequence of videos of people standing in place and reading from a screen. There are two camera angles, but minimal additional visuals, so…
Mainstreaming trends in marijuana. Growing your own cannabis at home.
With legalization, more people over 65 are turning to cannabis (edibles or inhaled) to address sleep issues or because they can no longer tolerate pain or sleep prescription medications. Today, cannabis is completely legal in 14 states for adult use and legal for medical use or decriminalized in all but 6 states. A study earlier this year by the Journal of the American Medical Association noted an increase from .4% to 2.9% in cannabis use among adults over 65. …
Let’s remember our strength in numbers!
(Note: previously published in comments in the NY Times 10/29/2020)
For me these past four years began with the Women’s March. For those who question who has spoken out against Trump, one day after the inauguration, the March was the largest single day protest in U.S. history. My mom, my sisters, my nieces, we all marched.
Then the pundits spoke “don’t just protest, run for office.” So, the women did.
The pundits spoke again “if you are so outraged by his behavior to women, do something.” Then there was the #METOO movement.
The pundits spoke once more “if you think…
Our hopes may lie with an apolitical military
The dystopian images projected in the Trump campaign are misplaced. Anarchists are not coming for you in the suburbs of the future. “Militias” called to arms from the White House are driving into our cities and towns right now in Trump America.
Videos from Portland this weekend brought back my memories of MAGA trucks driving through crowds of grandmothers, mothers and children during the Women’s March on Washington. Images of a MAGA driver killing a woman and injuring many others in Charlottesville are still fresh in all our minds.
What stands between…
The Candidate and the Fact Checker
As the United States winds into the final stretches of the election season, the fact checkers are working overtime. The speed of misinformation is traveling faster than corrections can be made and the resulting information overload has led many people who would or could vote checking out of the process completely with headaches or disinterest.
Given this challenge maybe we need a new debate format which addresses the fact that some politicians have moved past traditional exaggerations to falsehoods.
In this new format, the first candidate would answer the question or state their case…
Request paper bills in September (starting now)
Note: my concern is that seniors and other vulnerable people not be forced to risk their health to exercise their right to vote rather than for whom they choose to vote.
While we are all being invited to write our congresspeople (on vacation) to protest actions being taken to make voting by mail more challenging, there is another step you can take to solve the problem directly:
Just request your bills to be delivered by mail rather than electronically for one month: September 2020, starting now.
Yes, this will result in more paper to recycle, but on the other hand…
That’s right! Students at North Paulson High can now be found wandering the halls scantily-clad in bikinis, bathing suits, flip-flops, and shirtless!
The school principal, Mr. Knownot, explained that while in the past they had enforced a dress code, given the new state guidelines students’ dress was now a “personal choice”.
“Some chemistry teachers are concerned that lack of proper clothing could endanger the students and their lab partners. They seem to be worried that without the ability to enforce safety guidelines for their science classrooms they would no longer be able to use any lab equipment. However, we now…
Alison Doucette
Love building product with AI smarts and great UX, playing soccer and learning data science
