Publications & Writing
Perspectives on data products, competitive intelligence, and product-led growth from the Mediumroast team.
TL;DR: Major AI coding tools tackle multi-repo awareness through tooling like AGENTS.md, git worktrees, or MCP plumbing. These approaches treat context as a retrieval process. Manifold treats it as a coordination problem, which are very different things. Here’s what we built, why
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Following up from “A case for API based open company firmographics”, we’ve updated and put out a major new release of the company_dns. While there is documentation to update and odds and ends to fix, the bones are there. If you’d like to give it a spin check out https://company-d
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The product landscape is littered with brilliant failures because Products teams don’t build evidence based plans based upon market insights. To further accelerate our desire to learn and help Products teams build evidenced based plans I’m announcing that Mediumroast is giving aw
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I mostly reject the shift from “eating our own dog food” to “drinking our own Champagne”! There I said it.
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In recent years, attention mechanisms have transformed the landscape of AI by powering innovations in natural language processing, computer vision, and audio application such as text-to-speech. From OpenAI’s ChatGPT models to Google’s BERT, attention has become the ba
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Roasting Plant Coffee, here at San Francisco International Airport, employs their JavaBot (video story for the birth of the JavaBot) to deliver you a “bespoke” coffee brew delivered a cup at a time just in time. In a very real sense when you enter one of their stores you’re insid
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You wake up and get a phone call from your host and they say, “Sorry, but we need to reschedule.” Your heart sinks as all of the careful planning has gone up in flames. This is not uncommon. You must be flexible as cancellations and new appointments can occur on the fly. My advic
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“When you talk to customers please remember you have four ears and half a mouth.” I often say this to Planners, Product Managers, Engineers and Researchers before visiting customers. My intention: I want the team to learn more from listening than their own monologues. Deep listen
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The starting point of any new thing is the “blank page!” However, beginning with a clean sheet of paper is simultaneously daunting and exhilarating. Therefore, in this part of my multi-article Design Thinking series I’ll look at tackling the “blank page” by crowd sourcing hypothe
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Have you ever heard “What customer is really asking for that,” from an engineer? How about this question from product managers/owners “Will that feature make money?” While asking this and other questions is critical when used to stall or stymie building they aren’t helpful. What
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