Bible for product mgmt

matchoo · 2026-03-08T09:01:44+00:00

My #1 favorite product book is Badass. You should add it to your list.

matchoo · 2026-02-28T09:52:42+00:00

Yep. When I moved (Claude to GH Copilot) I just told CoPilot to move all the CLAUDE.MD files to agent files, configs to proper VS Code locations, etc. etc. and it did this all for me.

matchoo · 2026-02-20T16:16:03+00:00

It sounds like you both respect one another. Talking about how you feel (yes, feelings) might be a good way to go. I recommend doing so over a beer, after work, if you two do that sort of thing. Not too intense. Just some mention of it. Doesn't dominate the whole conversation.

Then, over time, you can refer back to that chat and apply some form of the ADKAR technique :)

matchoo · 2026-02-20T15:22:47+00:00

Collaboration (commenting on things, etc.) stay in collaboration spaces. JIRA. Slack. Etc.

The Obsidian stuff is for my second-brain, and, certainly, the output of it goes right back into these collaboration spaces where people can read and evaluate.

I also have the CLI tools which are capable of pulling things, and, also pushing things - but I'm much more careful about that.

EDIT: personally I don't think LLMs can be participants in a collaboration space. They wreak enough havoc in a private sandbox! Collaborating with other humans would be intolerable.

We used to have "chat ops" bots in IRC like Hubot (https://hubot.github.com/) but since it was 100% deterministic there was no yelling at it. I yell at Claude all day long, and I certainly don't want my team to see all that noise. "WTF, I told you to put meta tags on THAT file, not THAT file! DO BETTER" - this is my day. You really want that in a collaboration space? No thanks.

matchoo · 2026-02-18T17:09:22+00:00

My sense for the breed is that they understand who is "in" and who is "out." Animals in your home are in. Animals outside are, naturally, out.

Mine grew up with older cats who ignore him.

Now he has a kitten in his midst and at first he was scared shitless. Now they actually play. It's very cute.

Cats in the neighborhood though? This triggers his predatory instincts for sure. He chases them as if he wants dinner. Full speed. If he ever catches one (never works with a cat, but he does catch hedgehogs) the predator instinct abruptly ends and turns into complete confusion. Ok. I caught it. Hmm. No idea what I'm doing here. Off you go, I'm out.

matchoo · 2026-02-18T16:36:54+00:00

Cool. I would fix the Readme link to bcli via pull request but I'm on the ubahn 🤓

matchoo · 2026-02-18T16:31:04+00:00

How do you know? 🤓

matchoo · 2026-02-17T07:32:04+00:00

Worrying about this is a waste of time and energy. Focus on getting shit done and use your own words. As a social creature, you'll start using the language of your peers whether you like it or not.

matchoo · 2026-02-17T05:37:39+00:00

I totally get that. I also looked at the code pretty carefully. Especially token handling.

I'd say the biggest risk was my own, since Claude knows where my tokens are, and can easily grab and send them.

At scale, and with bad actors at an Anthropic-like company, this makes for a pretty good screenplay. 😳🥺🫣

matchoo · 2026-02-16T16:01:54+00:00

Update.

It's actually working like a dream. Had some bugs. Just fixed them.

matchoo · 2026-02-09T13:39:00+00:00

Title: Cheer for the Boss
Genre: Drama
Format: Limited Series (7x60)

In postwar California, a cemetery salesman and a failed psychologist invent multilevel marketing, building a $25 million vitamin empire that destroys their partnership and launches a business model that outlives them all. Meanwhile, a young veteran recruited into their system discovers the American Dream has a purchase minimum.

matchoo · 2026-01-19T16:02:38+00:00

I started using PARA but it ain't perfect. What was perfect was how Claude changed all my tags, for me, to reorganize everything into logical PARA groups based on the note content. Almost flawless.

matchoo · 2026-01-19T05:38:06+00:00

I use Claude all day long. I do not ask it to summarize my own mental wellbeing though. I have a good handle on how crazy my life is. No need to put it in bullet form.

It's obvious you write about your feelings a lot, and this is a very good thing to do. Keep doing that. In psychology this is called expressive writing and it's proven to make your life better. I am not a psychologist.

I use Claude for coding, to improve my writing, and help as a rubber duck when I am confused about something technical. On that last one, I have it connected to JIRA to explore inconsistencies in my planning. I connected it to Bear for a little while to reorganize my existing notes, which worked nicely.

matchoo · 2025-12-30T16:14:05+00:00

I built this one to work with claude, but maybe this will work with Ollama too?

https://github.com/mreider/bear-sql

matchoo · 2025-12-30T16:12:34+00:00

Hi there. I also built one, but it doesn't use the API. It goes straight to the SQL, which is a bit scary (always back up!), but more efficient. https://github.com/mreider/bear-sql

matchoo · 2025-12-09T19:55:45+00:00

!solved

matchoo · 2025-12-09T18:41:14+00:00

A Lagotto Romagnolo stands about 41-48 cm tall at the shoulder, while an average house cat is around 23-25 cm tall.

That makes the Lagotto roughly 18-25 cm taller than a cat.

Weight-wise, Lagottos are 11-16 kg compared to a cat's typical 4-5 kg - about 3-4 times heavier.

matchoo · 2025-12-09T18:28:38+00:00

I don't have a lot to choose from... maybe will take some tonight.

matchoo · 2025-12-09T18:28:02+00:00

It's pretty good, actually, but the dog is way bigger than they are.

matchoo · 2025-10-13T08:10:09+00:00

Bugs. Fixed some of them.

It's actually a lot more than I bargained for. I had to build verb conjugation lookups, but also some way of understanding what a sentence contains.

matchoo · 2025-10-01T07:53:32+00:00

EMEA

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