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Elon Musk Flips Product Managers the Bird: Why Twitter Needs to Fail (Whale)

If, somehow, Elon Musk pulls a rabbit out of the hat (and cages it and forces it to work 20 “hardcore” hours a day) and turns Twitter…

Nov 22, 2022

Elon Musk Flips Product Managers the Bird: Why Twitter Needs to Fail (Whale)

Nov 22, 2022

Crypto, Buying the Constitution, and What This Has To Do With a Classic Cubs Collapse — Apropos of…

Here’s an issue of Apropos of Nothing, my occasional newsletter. It’s a bit longer than usual… but hang with me and we’ll cover a lot of…

Nov 17, 2021

Crypto, Buying the Constitution, and What This Has To Do With a Classic Cubs Collapse — Apropos of…

Nov 17, 2021

YOLO, Crypto, WTF — Apropos of Nothing

Here’s an issue of Apropos of Nothing, my occasional newsletter on product and innovation. Sign up!

Apr 19, 2021

YOLO, Crypto, WTF — Apropos of Nothing

Apr 19, 2021

Self-driving cars, cities and sprawl

(This post is an excerpt from my weekly email, Apropos of Nothing. Sign up!)

Feb 17, 2016

Feb 17, 2016

Apropos of Nothing: Say It Ain’t So, Dr. Z

Apropos of Nothing… I write a weekly email called Apropos of Nothing. It features thoughts and links on stuff in the product, tech, media…

Jan 8, 2016

Apropos of Nothing: Say It Ain’t So, Dr. Z

Jan 8, 2016

The Devil Is in the Defaults

So I updated my LinkedIn profile this week to include my latest side project, Apropos of Nothing. Naturally, LinkedIn updated my network…

Dec 18, 2015

Dec 18, 2015

Why Amazon’s Golden Handcuffs Scare the Bejesus Out of Me

By now you’ve read, the New York Times’s devastating piece on Amazon’s corporate culture, right? The piece hit home on so many levels for…

Aug 24, 2015

Aug 24, 2015

Highlights from Nieman’s Predictions for Journalism 2015

In one sitting, over the holidays, I binge-read all 65 of the predictions that smart people from across the media world submitted for…

Jan 11, 2015

Jan 11, 2015

What do you do? Product managers explain their job to family members

Product managers strive for a better answer than “I just run the website.”

Dec 24, 2014

What do you do? Product managers explain their job to family members

Dec 24, 2014

Getting on the same page

The New Republic fiasco and lessons for product managers at legacy media companies

Dec 10, 2014

Getting on the same page

Dec 10, 2014

Dan Blumberg

Dan Blumberg

Product leader. I’ve shipped products that you know and love at LinkedIn, The New York Times, WNYC, and startups.

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