Calculating the median in Google Sheets
Photo by Jay Toor on Unsplash When you’re looking at data to inform a RevOps question (or any question), one of the key calculations you typically do is compare the average of a set of data to its median. Why…
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How Not to Boil an Ocean: Keeping Product Requests Manageable
Photo by Buzz Andersen on Unsplash It’s easy to get excited about a great idea. You’re going to change the world! When you get that epiphany and want to translate it into a working product, it’s important to keep the…
The secret life of spreadsheets: how you can give your apps super powers
Is the app in the spreadsheet, or is the spreadsheet in the app? An example that surfacing app capabilities from a spreadsheet As a programmer, when you need new capabilities for an app or an environment that you are building,…
What goals should we have for Conversational-style AI bots like ChatGPT?
Imagine you can ask for anything you want. A picture of a unicorn eating a hamburger. An essay on the relative merits of a hot dog and whether it is a sandwich. A recipe that hallucinates a new combination of…
You’re going to get used to using AI models like ChatGPT, whether you like it or not
One of the most exciting ideas on the market today is the idea of learning models that answer questions with (seemingly) reliable answers. What could be better than a Google-like service that makes it possible to address almost any topic?…
If code could talk, it would write these diagrams
The typical documentation dilemma – stop coding to document, or document much more later One of the biggest unsolved problems in software is making the code (and the output of that code) easier to read and understand. The reasons for…
It’s not easy if your customer says it’s not easy
Photo by Karla Hernandez on Unsplash Users are tired. They are stressed. They are overworked. They might be tired because they have too many meetings, have survived a pandemic, or are not getting any sleep. Enter your product. You are…
Dashboard metrics don’t tell the whole story
More context gives you more information about a dashboard item A typical metric on a dashboard: what does it mean? We’ve all had the experience of looking at a chart or a component on a dashboard or slide and thinking:…
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Prompts generated by DiffusionBee for “writing a letter” DiffusionBee prompts: “A person writing a letter, Japanese Woodcut”; “A woman writing a letter, 1960s tv show”; “a person writing a letter on Twitter Creative work generated by artificial intelligence is having…
Using data to elevate features in your product backlog
Using a decision matrix to differentiate potential features In the product process, if you’ve been taking requests for a while, you’re used to people asking: “how long will this take to get done.” Another common request is “which feature do…
