Notebook

• Vanity Engineering

  A customer’s complaint about dates put our chart redesign in perspective.

• Lads, we have all the data

  Three days for the bot. Three months for the data cleanup.

• The first mobile app I had to price

  I came up with $500. Then I asked the client what he had in mind.

• From Zoho Projects to Huly

  A price change sent me looking for another way to manage the team’s projects.

• The website was a decoy

  How I used fonts and margins to put off cold calling.

• What we learned implementing AI in manufacturing

  Five lessons from putting an AI system to work in a manufacturing business.

• I was a bad mentor

  On letting people wrestle with problems, and what that cost my team.

• Why does the robot need to be a dog?

  What does a dog-shaped robot add to a mobility aid?

• The graveyard of product ideas

  Some ideas never left research. Others made it all the way to a landing page.

• Someone else’s Legos

  What consulting and building startups have taught me.