jhm’s statuslog

ChatGPT is basically your first-year-McKinsey-associate-as-a-service. Very smart and very helpful; impossible to tell if they're full of shit. "Occasionally wrong, never in doubt."

Hypothesis: If the thing you're building is the core of your business, you won't be able to drop in a third-party off the shelf tool. (And this is coming from someone who always wants to use the 3rd party off the shelf tool.)

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Wild bird seed $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Founders: what are the things you wished you'd interviewed for when hiring your first "head of engineering" (whatever you called the most senior engineering leader at your startup)?

Since January, I've been facilitating monthly peer support groups of mid-senior career PMs (think: directors at brand-name tech companies). Since my experience has been predominantly at very early-stage startups, it's been interesting to hear more about their challenges.

Anyway, if you're an emerging product leader looking for peer support, I'd suggest checking out .

It's really hard for companies to accept that the portion of market that is capable of paying for their product is much smaller than the portion of the market that's casually interested in paying for their product.

OMG UML what is up with those shapes and why do they haunt every piece of business graphics software?