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My product origin story

Like so many millennials, I graduated college into the Great Recession, a time when even PhDs struggled to get a job at Starbucks.

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Becoming an accessibility advocate

A valuable customer reached out to our CTO directly, bypassing support, to report that our product didn’t work with screen readers.

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If there’s one thing I wish I’d learned at the youngest-possible age, it’s not to let other people tell you who you can be.

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I got into product management in the mid-2010s because I wanted to make better software. I had taste, and I was tired of clunky user experiences.

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The features I’ve built to close deals were some of the most valuable ones I shipped—and it took me far too long to realize it.

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I've noticed that when men reach for analogies, they often evoke war. Fights. Blows. Bombs. Everything has a body count.

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Recently I’ve been admiring websites that feature geometric sans-serif fonts, modern, friendly designs, and a pop of color.