Friday, 16 January 2015

The power and the pitfalls of test and learn

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My core philosophy on product is that product/market fit is a journey; it is a function of discovery and learning over time, and it is impr...
Saturday, 31 May 2014

A brief lesson on company culture and local optimum

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Culture governs what happens when the CEO isn't in the room - or something like that - is one of my favorite little soundbites.  Like ...
Friday, 22 November 2013

Natural Learning vs Institutional Learning

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A while back I was lucky enough to spend some time with Roger Schank after a conference he spoke at.  More and more I am finding that a tho...
Saturday, 17 August 2013

The business value of technology

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There's already plenty of material on articulating the value of technology in a business sense, but it tends to be quite - I don't ...
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Sunday, 6 January 2013

AI and Travel

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There’s been a bit of coverage recently about our Natural Language Processing search beta, but all that’s being talked about is the sem...
Sunday, 29 July 2012

A Few Notes on Leadership

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I was recently asked to talk to one of our teams as part of a series they're doing on leadership, taking a selection of different execs...
Sunday, 8 April 2012

How Alan Kay changed my mind

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I was recently fortunate enough to spend an evening with Dr Alan Kay , followed by a half day talk, followed by 2 whole...
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Saturday, 3 December 2011

Eachan's 5 Laws of Platform Architecture

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Architecture - the shape of the system, the patterns used - is by far the most meaningful thing to get right in any system.  Architectural ...
Saturday, 5 November 2011

The difference between taking a shortcut and cutting a corner

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There are two very different things to talk about here, with two very different implications for your software, but I'll admit that whi...
Sunday, 18 September 2011

Nobody cares about your tickets

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As engineers we like to speak in tickets and stories and bugs IDs etc - those units of currency we find easy to grok; they're usually fi...