I don't think the “AI PM” is a thing. If it were to be a different thing we should think about these questions: Does this require different skill sets or competencies? Does it come with different expectations on performance? Does it put you in different functional organizations? Based on what I've seen it is "no" to all of these questions. There is nuance around how we deal with data, training cycles, bias/fairness, drift tracking, etc. but these seem to be the same.

Organizational design fiction #2 — How would you feel if your work wanted you to install something in your brain? In this piece of design fiction I’m considering how we might solve the “too many meetings” problem in the future of brain hacking. As with the previous organizational design fiction, it pulls from speculative practices…

PRFAQs and the speculative product manager — Every product manager writes fiction. We do it every day in plans, roadmaps, PRDs, and even acceptance criteria. These are statements of what we’d like to see in the future but aren’t things that exist yet. Unfortunately, this fiction tends to be boring and not very inspirational. There is room…

A Piece of Organizational Design Fiction — How would you feel if every meeting was critiqued by an automated system? What if it might boo or cheer you? The above is a piece of design fiction of what it might be like if you were checking out various Google Chrome extensions for meetings and one was available…

Have you found that you don’t tackle the key disagreements during workshops? Do they end up in the “parking lot” but never get talked about again? You aren’t focusing on discourse or allowing it to happen enough. …

How might we employ animistic design and LLMs to make a more helpful smart home? — Large language models (LLMs) are now able to simulate human writing and conversation. They can generate text, images, and many other modalities with increasing capability. Could this technology be paired with the smart home to finally build context-aware communal computing devices? We could potentially fix many of the problems with…

Or how can you use animistic design to build better devices for the home? — On March 12, 2022 at SXSW a group of meatbags (aka people) got together to pretend to be devices in the home. From the description on the SXSW website: How Does The Roomba REALLY Feel About Dog Shit?! Or how does the Amazon Ring video doorbell worry about being a…

What happens when you listen to music on Spotify or watch shows on Netflix on your communal devices in the home? How much should the recommendations adapt to everyone in the room? In this article I talk about: Attempts from research in solving the group recommendation problem. How companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon handle group recommendations today — or don’t. A path forward for group recommendation services through shared norms in the home or device — rather than a focus on a person.

As we put more and more of ourselves online we will struggle to use identities that make sense to us. This is because companies aren’t building for the way we use identities in real life relationships as applied to the metaverse. In this article you will find: Discussion of what identity really means today online. Why anonymity and pseudo-anonymous identities are important. Key principles to build identity platforms into your products and services.