AI assisted interviewing

AI will not replace you, but people who use AI will.

I captured this quote from one of the speakers at our annual ReThink conference in Zรผrich last week. While it’s short and simple, I believe it holds a lot of truth. AI assistants will increase productivity massively, and because of this, the people who know best how to use such assistance and agents will have a considerable advantage over others.

I recently had a virtual interview with a candidate who captured my audio and passed my questions on to an agent who helped him answer them better. While I was initially amazed and somewhat opinionated, it also made me think positively about the candidate and how future-ready he was by applying new technology as it became available.

Books worth reading for Product Managers

I get asked regularly for advice on product and technology books worth reading. While this is all quite personal, there are a few books that I would advise any Product Manager or Product leader to read. Here are five of them in random order:

  1. Talk Like TED, through which you gain insights on selling your ideas persuasively to your internal and external stakeholders.
  2. Blue Ocean Strategy teaches you about finding or creating an uncontested market space that will make competition irrelevant.
  3. Our Iceberg Is Melting is all about change management. Any leader must understand what it takes to generate momentum in their organization.
  4. The Pyramid Principle teaches you to bring logic to your writing and presentation skills. This is essential when your role asks you to present to C-level executives regularly.
  5. Transformed helps you understand what it takes to become a product-led organization to deliver game-changing tech products.
  6. Six Simple Rules is all about managing complexity without making things complicated. Reducing complexity is today’s management challenge, as corporations have been adding complexity through business processes, organizational models, and software products for the past two decades.

52 Weeks – Week 21

I’m collecting 52 songs in 52 weeks. Every Friday, I add a song to my playlist. With the chosen music, I try to capture my energy and feelings of that particular Friday.

Week 21/52: The Paper Kites – Bloom

After 52 weeks, I will have recorded all the seasons, holidays, and high and low weeks of the year in this playlist on Apple Music. Don’t use Apple Music? Subscribe to weekly updates via RSS.

I completed a fun 20-minute Fartlek exercise this morning. The run was intense because my digital running coach called out the different paces by surprise and did not share how long the pace should be run. I was exhausted after 20 minutes. I was surprised to see in my data that I increased my max heart rate today with 8 bpm to 196 bpm. My average bpm during this run was 160 bpm.

๐Ÿ”ฅ 5-minute warm-up
๐Ÿ‘Ÿ 20-minute Fartlek exercise
โ„๏ธ 5-minute cool-down

I managed to get tickets for the Sunday lineup at North Sea Jazz this year:

  • Anoushka Shankar
  • Diana Ross
  • Durand Bernarr
  • Immanuel Wilkins Quartet
  • Jacob Collier (Artist in Residence)
  • Jazzmeia Horn
  • Jorja Smith
  • Kamasi Washington
  • Kurt Elling & Yellowjackets celebrate Weather Report
  • Lady Blackbird
  • Lakecia Benjamin
  • Norah Jones
  • Thee Sacred Souls
  • Tigran Hamasyan

52 Weeks – Week 20

I’m collecting 52 songs in 52 weeks. Every Friday, I add a song to my playlist. With the chosen music, I try to capture my energy and feelings of that particular Friday.

Week 20/52: Faithless – Insomnia

After 52 weeks, I will have recorded all the seasons, holidays, high and low weeks of the year in this playlist on Apple Music. Don’t use Apple Music? Subscribe to weekly updates via RSS.