More than a living

As many of you have surmised, one of the tangential as-the-world-turns subplots of More than a living is following the development of a tool we’re building called Kumquat. As such, we’ve tried to be as open and honest about not only its development, but the mistakes we’ve made along the way.
A few months back, we […]

Sigh. Since you asked. Yeah, that’s the long and the short of it.
Kumquat is on the way. Seriously. No, I mean it.
Good thing this is a personal project and not for a real client.
As if I don’t feel bad enough, Basecamp continues to rub it in. Guilting me me, day after day after day.
Hang on, […]

Today, Toby, Amy, and I sat down to discuss some of the future features and functions of Kumquat.
Okay, I can hear you already.
“Wha…? Why don’t you get the first one out the door before you go planning 18 months down the road?”
I get that. I do.
But here’s the thing: You can’t work that way.
You have […]

Are you a Product or a Brand?
We have repeatedly said, “Yes”, but this is worth considering when thinking about how you contemplate your Product Management versus Brand issue:
[Tom] Peters uses the word “brand” and [Chris] Brogan uses the word “product.” That’s a critical distinction in my eyes. The problem with you as […]

(This is part of the “Enhance perspective, assume control” series of posts.)
If you’ve spent any time on the Web lately, you’ve likely come across the word “BETA.” Or stumbled across a site or service in BETA. Probably more times than you care to recall.
BETA has achieved such a point of verbal saturation that it’s just […]

One of my favorite scenes from the movie Blade Runner features Harrison Ford’s character, Rick Deckard, analyzing a series of photographs, using a machine that magnifies the photos to ridiculous proportions.
To manipulate the machine, he calls out a particular quadrant and then says “enhance.”
Enhance.
Enhance enables Deckard to find a minute–practically invisible to the naked eye–clue […]

Well, well, well. It’s been a few weeks since the beginning of the new year. All full of promise and intrigue.
We were really going to change some stuff this year, weren’t we? Really put our mark on things. Come out of the gates with both guns blazing and whatnot.
Boy, it was going to be good.
Yeah. […]

Now, I’m no expert in product management. But let’s be honest, if we sat around and waited for me to write only on things at which I am expert, we’d all be in for a long, cold wait. So, all of that aside, I do know a number of good product managers. I’m even luckier […]