Roger L. Cauvin

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Product management and consumer science at Viewport. Downtown Austin dweller and advocate for inclusive neighborhoods. #prodmgmt #productmanagement
Cardhttps://www.cauvin.org
Successful startups often don't play in the same field as the competition. They reframe the landscape as something different.
https://open.substack.com/pub/patternbreakers/p/the-reframe-is-the-startup
by @m2jr #productmanagement #startups
The Reframe is the Startup

Startups are supposed to be about building. But the ones that break through don't just build. They shift how we see.

Pattern Breakers

Beyond surveys and role-based personas: A single true story about a real user's or prospect's experience is arguably worth more than a dozen survey responses.

https://articles.centercentre.com/its-time-we-seriously-talk-about-users-and-experiences

by @jmspool #ux #productmanagement

It’s Time We Seriously Talk About Users and Experiences - UX Articles by Center Centre

For some reason, UX people never speak about users or experiences. And that hurts our work. “But I talk about my users all the time.” Sure, we often say things like “Our users deserve the best user experiences,” but that’s not what I think is missing. What’s missing is that we never discuss specific users and their detailed experiences. […]

UX Articles by Center Centre
Data scientists and engineers sometimes just want to view Jupyter notebooks without editing or executing them. Check out this simple but handy ipynb viewer by Jakub Jirutka.
ipynb.js.org
#AI #ML
Reminds me of why spreadsheets are often better solutions than specialized apps.
https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/overfitting-and-the-problem-with-use-cases-337d9f4bf4d7
by Joe McLean
#productmanagement
"[T]he teams that thrive are the ones who use disruption as an opportunity to build the solutions they’ve been thinking about anyway."
https://www.mindtheproduct.com/our-biggest-crisis-was-a-product-strategy-blessing-in-disguise
by Asher Atlas
#productmanagement
Our biggest crisis was a product strategy blessing in disguise

How a staffing crisis paved the path to a better business model

Mind the Product
"Validation" continues to lead #productmanagement astray. Good piece from Todd Gagne despite his use of the term.
https://open.substack.com/pub/wildfirelabs/p/why-pain-points-fail-the-cannot-not
Why Pain Points Fail: The "Cannot Not Use" Framework for Startup Validation

From "Interesting" to "Essential": Transforming Your Product Into a Necessity

Wildfire Labs Substack
Business goals are inward focused, and defining them has limited value. The real magic is in defining and measuring customer outcomes, and then showing how improving customer outcomes will lead to better business outcomes.
https://articles.centercentre.com/why-ux-outcomes-make-better-goals-than-business-outcomes
by @jmspool
Why UX Outcomes Make Better Goals Than Business Outcomes - UX Articles by Center Centre

Increase subscription retention by 15% this quarter. Increase new policy subscriptions by 20% this year. These are common business outcomes, results the organization’s leadership wants to attain to keep the organization growing. Every business needs results like these to survive. It’s a great day when the design team’s leadership can report they’ve played a major role […]

UX Articles by Center Centre

When someone asks for a report, don't ask, "What do you want in the report?" Instead, ask what decisions it will help them make.

"Nobody wakes up in the morning and says today's going to be a great day, I'm going to produce 15 reports." - @jmspool

Today's #AI and #ML models rely on memorization and "local generalization". Massive scaling has led to smarter models. But getting models to adapt to novel situations, where there is little or no data, will require more than just memorizing more data.
https://deeplearningwithpython.io/chapters/chapter19_future_of_ai
Deep Learning with Python, Third Edition

Deep Learning with Python is written for anyone who wishes to explore deep learning from scratch. This new edition adds comprehensive coverage of generative AI and modern deep learning frameworks. It is available for free online.

"Google seems to be working on bringing NotebookLM to Gemini, combining two of its most powerful AI apps.

The option to import notebooks will reportedly appear in the same menu where you currently add images, files, or Google Drive documents to Gemini."

https://www.androidpolice.com/googles-best-ai-tools-could-finally-join-forces