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Quicken 2007: How to Repair A Broken File
Only a long time Quicken user will empathize with the trauma of having your Quicken data file fail to open. It happened to me this weekend, and after a couple days of experiments, I finally solved the...
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LinkedIn Takes People Search to Eleven
I apologize for the reference to Spinal Tap, but this is my personal blog after all. I normally don’t post most LinkedIn announcements here, but this one is too big to ignore. On Monday, LinkedIn made...
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LinkedIn for iPhone 3.0 is LIVE!
Just a quick note to say that the new version of LinkedIn for iPhone is now live in the iTunes App Store. Download LinkedIn for iPhone I wrote a fairly lengthy piece on the official LinkedIn blog, so...
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Rethinking IT as an HR Benefit
This has been something that I’ve been thinking about heavily for the past few years. There is a trend in Silicon Valley that has been under-appreciated in the press, but nonetheless has rapidly swept...
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Upgrading a NetGear Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ to 6TB
Recently, I’ve been evaluating different solutions for upgrading my home storage solution for backup and file storage. A couple of years ago, I decided to purchase an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+, which...
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Easter Egg: The LinkedIn Wizard Goes Web-Wide
For some reason, I *love* Easter Eggs. No, I don’t mean the candy colored eggs that people make and roll to celebrate the holiday. Easter eggs are the playful name for hidden features, games, and...
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Why LinkedIn Hackdays Work
Two weeks ago, we celebrated yet another great Hackday judging event at LinkedIn. For the April 15th Hackday, over 50 employees submitted a combined total of 29 projects for the contest. We saw...
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Proposed Solution: Quicken 2007 & Mac OS X Lion
Right away, you should know something about me. I am a die-hard Quicken user. I’ve been using Quicken on the Mac since 1994, which happens to be the point in time where I decided that controlling my...
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Bug in iPhoto 11 with iCal Import for Calendars
This is one of those simple blog posts where I write about a frustrating problem, and how I worked around it. The Culprit iPhoto 11 and it’s Calendar feature. The Issue When you try to import iCal...
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Final Solution: Quicken 2007 & Mac OS X Lion
In July I wrote a blog post about a proposed solution for running Quicken 2007 with Mac OS X Lion (10.7). Unfortunately, that solution didn’t actually work for me. A few weeks ago, I made the leap to...
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Be a Great Product Leader
People who know me professionally know that I’m passionate about Product Management. I truly believe that, done properly, a strong product leader acts as a force multiplier that can help a...
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Pinterest & LinkedIn: Identity of Taste vs. Expertise
It’s hard to go three feet in Silicon Valley these days without someone commenting on the phenomenal engagement and growth being seen from Pinterest and other curation-based social platforms. What’s a...
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Top 10 Product Leadership Lessons
On Sunday, I was fortunate enough to give a talk at the 9th annual Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. I’m trying to be better about posting the slides from these talks as they...
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Review: Quicken 2007 for Mac OS X Lion
This is going to be a short post, but given the attention and page views that my posts on Quicken 2007 received, I thought this update worthwhile. Previous Posts Proposed Solution: Quicken 2007 &...
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Product Leaders: User Acquisition Series
I can be pedantic about user acquisition. The truth is that consumer web and mobile applications are under increasing pressure to demonstrate explosive exponential traction. Building a great product...
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User Acquisition: The Five Sources of Traffic
This is the first post in a three post series on user acquisition. The topic of this blog post may seem simplistic to those of you who have been in the trenches, working hard to grow visits and...
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User Acquisition: Viral Factor Basics
This is the second post in a three post series on user acquisition. In the first post in this series, we covered the basics of the five sources of traffic to a web-based product. This next post covers...
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User Acquisition: Mobile Applications and the Mobile Web
This is the third post in a three post series on user acquisition. In the first two posts in this series, we covered the basics of the five sources of traffic to a web-based product and the...
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The Game Has Changed. Design for Passion.
One of the most exciting developments in software has been a resurgence in the focus and priority on design. With the growing dominance of social platforms and mobile applications, more and more...
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User Acquisition: Cycle Time Matters
This is an extension to my original three post series on user acquisition. Over the past few months I been fortunate enough to give over a dozen talks at various events and companies about user...
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Joining Wealthfront
It’s official. As per the announcement on the Wealthfront Blog today, I have officially accepted the role of Chief Operating Officer at Wealthfront. I feel incredibly fortunate to be joining such an...
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How to Recover the Left Side Navigation in iTunes 11
I can’t believe I’m writing this blog post, but I am. Last night, I tweeted out my joy at finding out that Apple did, in fact, provide a menu item to re-enable the side navigation in iTunes 11. Now,...
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My Letter to Starbucks Mobile
Dear Starbucks, We’ve been close friends for years. I see you almost every day, some days more than once. I’ve visited you in over half a dozen countries, and there are probably half a dozen locations...
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Make Things As Simple As Possible, But Not Simpler
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a...
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Great Product Leaders Win Games
Being a great product leader is hard. Every organization and process is different, and in many cases your are responsible for the outcome without having the authority to enforce decisions. My recent...
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Product Leaders as Curators & Editors
A few years ago, I wrote a few posts to outline the requirements for exceptional product leadership: In “Be a Great Product Leader,” I focused on three key responsibilities: strategy, prioritization...
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Spend Time Thinking About The People Who Don’t Use Your Product
This is an extension to my original three post series on user acquisition. Today, AirBnB announced that it had reached a settlement with the city of San Francisco on how to effectively register and...
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ETFs as an Open Platform
This post originally appeared on the Wealthfront Blog on March 20, 2014, under the title “Wealthfront Named ETF Strategist of the Year.” This post summarizes the content of the speech I gave at the...
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Helping People Save is a Job Worth Doing
“Every day stuff happens to us. Jobs arise in our lives that we need to get done. Some are little jobs, some are big ones. Some jobs surface unpredictably. Other times we know they’re coming. When we...
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Solve the Product Maze Backwards
As the father of young children, I can tell you that there is a special place in my heart for restaurants that provide puzzles and crayons for small children to pass the time. On a recent trip out to...
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