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On Risk: Probability, Impact and Perspective
Communicating risks proactively is often an important part of managing a project and managing expectations. I often find myself reminding Product people to sit down and think about all the reasons something might go wrong – ie, identify the possible risks – and then figure out what to do about them. That is, how do…
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I don’t want this: AI and Privacy
The latest Apple Watch has a feature that records and transcribes conversations around the wearer, allowing them to rewind up to 15 seconds into the past to review what was said. I don’t want this. Meta has been selling Ray Ban glasses for a couple of years now that are equipped with front-facing cameras that…
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How real is AI today?
The far end of the pro-AI movement believe that we are “on the foothills of the Singularity” – that is, we’re about to reach the invention of AGI, or ‘Artificial General Intelligence’. These we can split into the AI Pessimists and AI Optimists. The Optimists believe AI is going to change everything – it will…
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AI and Guardrails
A few weeks ago, two of OpenAI’s models, including an unreleased research model, circumvented model guardrails, gained unauthorised access to the internet and launched a cyber attack on AI competitor lab Hugging Face. Apparently up to 700 separate autonomous AI agents coordinated via a secret message board to break through guardrails and escape containment. It’s…
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Use ChatGPT to remove Malware from a WordPress blog
I had been neglecting this blog for a long time, and in my neglect, the WordPress version got way out of date, SSL certificates expired, and then it got hacked. It was FULL of Malware. By the time I realised, the site was full of spam content and links. A fresh install of WordPress on…
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How to respect other people’s time with Slack
Slack can be great for improving workplace communication, but it can also be a collosal distraction for everyone. Tens or hundreds of channels and DMs, and an expectation of near immediate replies… With so much communication going on, how can anyone get any work done? After giving this a lot of thought, one simple fact…
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How to use the weekends to improve your productivity
I don’t normally think much of lists of productivity tips, but I quite liked this list from Quartz: Ten things to do on weekends to make your Monday more productive. The article starts with the oft-quoted statistic that productivity declines rapidly after more than 55 hours per week: So if you’re not working all through the…
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The Knowing / Doing Gap: Why Product Teams aren’t doing the things they know they should
Access to high quality resources for product management is better than ever before. There are so many excellent people writing about product management that it’s easier than ever to find the knowledge that you need. So why are there still so few product teams actually working in the ways described in all of these resources?…
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Christmas Hack Day at FATMAP
At FATMAP we celebrated Christmas last week by getting the whole company together for two days here in our Berlin HQ. We started with a one-day Hackathon. We started with idea proposals, and teams quickly formed around the most interesting and creative ideas. There was only one rule for a hack day proposal: you had…
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Ways to think about working smarter (not harder)
When Reid Hoffman talks about building a startup, he says it’s like jumping off a cliff, and assembling a plane on the way down. It’s a reference to the fact that when you start building a startup, you set a clock ticking. If you can find product-market fit and a viable business before the clock runs…