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Ken Norton on how to hire a Product Manager

Ken has a great overview on how to hire a Product Manager. My favorite line is “Remember buddy, nobody asked you to show up.” It reminds me of a quote from Larry Ellison. Apparently he wasn’t told when they hired the first Product Manager/Marketing person at Oracle. When he ran into the new hire in [...]

One year, 9 months

Clear.
Excellent.

More good movies (and music)

Jul and I have had good luck with movies lately.
We finally got a chance to see The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill a couple weeks ago that we recommended to Chris and Sai a couple months ago after only seeing the preview. It was a remarkable movie that just makes you smile. Mark Bittner [...]

Crazy nighttime mocking bird

We have a crazy nighttime mocking bird that lives in a tree next to our house. He is totally off his rocker. He starts calling about 11:30 at night and goes until about 6am, non-stop, all spring. (Chris and Sai don’t believe us but they left the other night at 11:20 and missed him by [...]

cleantooth

I left my bluetooth headset in my pants pocket and it went through the wash. The good news is the headset is super clean. The bad news is it doesn’t work anymore. Can you hear me now?

Grocery Lingo - BOB shrink

At a recent customer visit I learned that grocery “shrink” is planned losses due to stolen food, expired food, prepared food that needs to be thrown out, etc. The National Supermarket Research Group (!?) puts per store shrink at 450K per store. Sheesh. That’s a lot of mangos.
My favorite term is “bottom of basket [...]

Crash

Jul and I just saw the movie Crash on Gregd’s recommendation. It was probably one of the most powerful movies I have seen in a really long time. If you haven’t seen it, go see it.

Overheard - signs that the apocalypse is upon us

“[Tommy Lee's new book] may be the only book I have read all year, but it is the only book that matters.” Morning host on Radio Alice, 6/3/2005

Addicted AND ripping off the teachers

Rus’ bravery coming forward and owning up to his addiction gives me the courage to do the same. Although I believe I took it to a whole new level for my trip this week.
I think it started with Wal-profen. I was at Walgreens picking up a prescription and needed Advil. The Wal-profen was just so [...]