This is my old blog which I don't really update much anymore. I do love paging through the old archives, perhaps you will too.
For almost as long as I’ve worked in product management, I’ve always appreciated getting a true feel for a user’s problem by living in their shoes. One of my first PM jobs was at Reuters working on a system for doctor’s offices. I wanted to get a real feel of what a doctor and his/her […]
Fellow Yahoo Chad Dickerson wrote a thoughtful post called Tactical is the New Strategic. He writes: big company managers routinely describe themselves as either “tactical” or “strategic.” Typically, those who say they are “strategic” talk down to those considered more “tactical”, directly or indirectly. This is wrong-headed.…I’m not saying that strategy isn’t important, just that […]
I’ve known for a while that MeasureMap was on the market and looking for a good home and now they’ve gone to google. I was lucky enough to meet the team there and get a very early alpha account to use on this very blog. It’s a beautiful product that demos well. Nice visual design, […]
This weekend I travelled to Las Vegas on Southwest Airlines and I noticed a very simple principle at work. If you don’t know, SWA doesn’t have assigned seating. Instead, you get a letter (A, B or C) and they board everyone with A, then everyone with B and so on. Southwest created this “competition for […]
So, this week I’ve been waxing nostalgic. Two friends at Yahoo! are both hitting their 10 year anniversary working here. It’s hard to believe that someone could be working at an internet company that long. But then I instantly think about myself. I’m close to my 7 1/2 years mark here at Yahoo! I did […]
Well, the votes are in and it was unanimous.  You all want to see more of “angry Scott”. The funny thing is that now that I vented a little, I’m all better.  No real desire to rant on this blog right now.  I think A-list bloggers have gotten too bitchy and its wearing on me. […]
So today I went into my WordPress control panel and discovered 11 comments (and 53 spam comments) sitting in my queue waiting for approval.  I had WP set to email me when I got comments. I got no email, so I just assumed you were all a quiet bunch. Turns out when I got upgraded […]
So, it seems as though I’ve fallen into that blogging slump. This is the point in a blogs life where you’ll see a post (just like this one) that says “sorry I haven’t posted in a while I’ve been busy”.  That post is usually followed immediately by another one 6 months later saying “I guess […]
Last week at CES all the internet big guys had something to launch. MSFT & MTV are going after the music market, Google learned how to bundle software apps together and Yahoo announced Go. While a lot of blogger attention was paid to those Mountain View guys, I think people missed the real gem about […]
With the holidays I’m a bit behind in blogging, so this is probably the last “look back on 2005” post out there.  When I look back at this 2005 I see a lot of great and memorable things that have happened in the world, the industry, at my company and for me.  But this post isn’t about […]
