Some thoughts on how product leaders can respond to C-level requests for (accurate) ROI estimates of future products, features, projects... when that's the wrong tool for the job.

richmironov.substack.com/p/roi-seduct...

I joined Murray Robinson & Donna Spencer's No Nonsense Leadership podcast for an extended discussion of corporate organizations, politics, how executives think/behave, servant leadership, and making change by *showing* rather than telling.

nononsenseagile.podbean.com/e/0115-influ...

I’ve written a lot about how we (product folks) love to talk about how our teams build things: releases and sprints and product operating systems... But some colleagues are deeply uninterested in what happens in the kitchen.
A thought on reading the room (audiences)
www.mironov.com/read-the-room/

wonderful to catch up with Bruce McCarthy in Boston: breakfast ran all morning as we chatted about product communities, business models, politics, moving to new places, colleagues that we're quiet fanboys of...

3 decades of mostly-remote-occasionally-F2F collaboration and friendship

wrapping up a NYC theater visit: new play "Maybe Happy Ending" is charming, tightly written/directed, heartwarming. Channeling Philip K Dick.

I left humming the stunning sets and visual effects. :-)

was thrilled to see the brilliant, transcendent Audra McDonald in new Bway production of Gypsy. Lovely, generous revival... thx to my better half for scoring NYC tix.

Just starting to channel my inner Marie Kondo... what small subset of our stuff goes with us overseas (Lisbon) and how much can we toss/donate/lend?

Handle the easiest 10%, then the easiest remaining 10%...

300 baud modem to timeshared HP100, circa 1973. 8-hole tape reader lived back in the CPU room.

Nice... we also considered Porto, 3 hours north of Lisbon, but the alliteration was too much for us.

first bit of news on Bluesky... we're moving to Lisbon/Portugal in March!
Looking forward to joining the IRL product community there, reconnecting with PT/EU/UK friends & colleagues, finding adventure in a new place/language/currency/culture, bringing well-earned CPO scars to a younger tech scene.