Some of My Favourite Articles
Product strategy means saying no!
What if customers want it? NO!
But it will only take a couple of days to implement? NO!
In 1965 Esquire sends Gay Talese to LA for an interview with Frank Sinatra. However, Sinatra was under the weather and not in the mood. Talese writes a Sinatra profile, which defined a new genre, without properly talking to Sinatra.
Gaming the lottery as a retirement plan
A convenience store owner notices a flaw in the local lottery design and decides to game it.
Developers should abandon Agile
An interesting argument against Agile’s poorly conceived versions from a developer’s perspective.
How USSD is revolutionizing Africa
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) is an old GSM service that works with queries like *#XYZ#; mostly abandoned after smartphones, but not in Africa.
The weird science of naming products
How do companies decide on the names of their products?
A great New Yorker interview with legendary Marlon Brando from 1957 by another legend, Truman Capote
How New York’s Bagel Union fought — and beat — a mafia takeover
