Writings about business, technology, research, design, product management, and communications.| Shared Physics
In "Identifying Signals of Expertise", I ended up cutting almost 2000 words to keep things succinct and focused. But that stuff was useful! If you're looking to upskill your interviewing skills further and dive deeper into identifying signals of expertise, read on; I've included| Shared Physics
In February 2023, I recorded a podcast with Kayla Cytron-Thaler at Canny.io about the role of product management, building products from scratch, and more. This is the video, audio, and cleaned up transcript. In particular, the transcript is a bit different from the recording – I'm taking it as an| Shared Physics
Here’s a 🌶️ spicy take: I think practice at human/LLM interactions can lead to better human/human interactions. --- Over the last few months I've watched colleagues spend considerable time crafting and sharing LLM prompts for different projects—complete with context, examples, and success| Shared Physics
One of the most useful questions I've used for evaluating expertise during a hiring interview is: Tell me about a time when you did something you thought was right, but later it turned out to be a mistake. That kicks off a series of additional questions and followups: * What was| Shared Physics
Hi, I'm Roman Kudryashov. I'm a technologist, problem solver, and writer. Most of my career has been working with early and mid-stage companies to: * Do something new (create a new department, launch a new product) * Fix or change something (transition operational models, fix a department that's not delivering) * Scale and| Shared Physics
I spent two weeks testing if AI tools could handle real marketing work and replace me. Working with 8 years of data, I found they're great at tedious tasks and terrible at finding meaningful insights in messy data. Bottom line: they're powerful assistants but poor agents.| Shared Physics
Writings about business, technology, research, design, product management, and communications.| Shared Physics
Most agencies sell activity. Healthcare taught me to focus on outcomes. Here’s the surprising crossover between value-based care and performance marketing, the challenges both face, and why studying healthcare contracting led me to switch back to running my own ad campaigns.| Shared Physics
Is being able to read a historical anomaly? Thoughts on tacit knowledge as intellectual dark matter, changes to information-seeking behavior, Star Wars, and why post-literacy is probably going to happen and what that means.| Shared Physics
In ten years of public reading and writing, last year was an outlier. I wrote almost nothing public last year, and read the least since I starting tracking it in 2017. I'm chalking this up to work, fatherhood, and training. * Work: I wrote a lot this year and all of| Shared Physics
What a year it’s been! Eight months since the year ended and I’m just now catching up on my reflections. I’m closer to ‘books read in 2024’ than I am to 2023. It took a while to write this because last year| Shared Physics
Document-first approaches solve for the “why” and answer business questions. Demo-first approaches solve for the “how” and focus on the specifics of execution. You should selectively deploy one or the other method of building depending on the core constraints of the project.| Shared Physics
Have you ever wondered what the heck goes into building and running software? There's a lot of distinct "work" that goes into it: building UIs, writing algorithms, managing data, maintaining quality, operating the software, and addressing technical debt. This post will unpack what those things mean.| Shared Physics
I've tracking books that I've read since 2013 or so, and writing about it since 2020 (2020, 2021). This year, I read 30 books, graphic novels, and related publications. Top Picks & Honorable Mentions NonFiction It's hard to pick a "best of" list of nonfiction books because most of the books| Shared Physics
A deep dive into understanding risks, costs, and rewards when managing a business roadmap. Written for product managers, great for everyone.| Shared Physics
The "Announcement" bar (or HelloBar in certain circles) is a really useful widget for showing timely information at the top of a page. It can come in all shapes and styles: This post will cover an easy way to add a custom announcements bar into your ghost theme (which you| Shared Physics
I've recently noticed more and more new restaurants popping up in my neighborhood. I don't live in a food desert, but I have dietary restrictions that limit what and where I can eat (I eat vegetarian). I'm not alone in this: by some counts, approximately 15-20% of the population also| Shared Physics
I quit my job at the tail end of February, 2022. Like many people riding the wave of the great resignation, it was bittersweet and both the hardest and the easiest thing I’ve ever done. But as Nassim Nicholas Taleb likes to say, “The three most harmful addictions are| Shared Physics
This is my second public "books" post, last being being a recap of 2020 [https://www.romandesign.co/books-i-read-in-2020/]. So what did 2021 look like? In 2021, I read 23 total books, comics, and related publications. In 2020 I read 33 total. In 2019, that was 26. In 2018, I| Shared Physics
A step by step guide for solving a difficult organizational problem, including notes on single stack ranks, team interdependencies, building consensus, reducing work in progress, and how to move your company towards better priority management.| Shared Physics