Month: June 2016

How Spotify Builds Products – my slides from May 2016 talks

These are my slides from the talks I gave at infoShare in GDansk and to ao.com and Think Money in Manchester. The talk in Poland was a shortened version of this content. This is a sort of mega-mix of many of my previous talks. This talk ends up presenting a bit more of a coherent picture on how Spotify’s culture and organization go hand-in-hand with it’s data-driven product development.

As with most of my talks, the majority of the content was in the spoken parts instead of the slides. I will hopefully have a video to share soon from one of these talks…

Just realized

that this blog is almost 12 years old now. I started it during the election season where George Bush was re-elected. It let me get out my frustration around the shambles that I felt the US was descending into. Since Barack Obama was elected, I haven’t felt much need to be publicly political. These days, I have some very strong opinions about what is going on in US politics, but I feel others are doing a better job with the facts and rants. I’ve been more focused on where I think I can provide a more unique voice.

Some of those old posts are bit embarrassing to me now. Like reading the poetry you wrote for class in High School or College. I’ve thought about purging them or separating the blog into multiple ones for photography and discussions of leadership and management (which is what I mostly post on today). I think that past has it’s value though, so for now it stays.

I wonder what I’ll think about today’s posts 12 years from now…