Spinning Quantum Quantum computing is a furnace for burning venture capital money. Yes, it will be transformative once we have useful quantum machines. But we are still very far off from any utility.
The Organizational IQ Gradient Leaders who hire people smarter than they cause what I call the organizational IQ gradient.
LLMs vs the Snorbograff: Language Is More Than Statistics How do LLMs behave when they are asked a question they cannot possibly answer?
Reasons for the Collapse of State-Level Societies Collapse, in the context of civilizations, is the “significant loss of an established level of sociopolitical complexity.” But what causes societies to collapse?
PM Interview Questions My favourite interview questions for (technical) product managers are not about case studies, technology, prioritization, metrics, or customer/market research, but about reading and thinking.
Maybe Means No When product managers say “Maybe” they generally mean “No.” Which do you prefer as a customer: a convenient lie or the truth?
Placebo Confidence in Deep Tech Are you really honest about the risk in your product plans or do you have placebo confidence?
The Urgency Test You only need one question to ascertain whether a sudden customer problem is urgent or not. I call it the urgency test.
Feature Ideas without Product Debt How do you manage feature ideas if you want to avoid product debt?
Product Debt Product debt is like technical debt: today’s time saver becomes tomorrow’s burden and eventually dead weight. Unfortunately, product debt tends to turn into technical debt, so developers pay the interest on bad product decisions, too.
AI: Black Magic inside a Black Box If a product works, do you care what’s inside? And if it does not work, should it matter what’s inside whether you have a right to a valid explanation?