“I itch to do something new”, this is how a PM I’m mentoring explained why she is considering new opportunities. “I really didn’t like the people I talked with, and the business is not going to grow further” mentioned a good friend of mine about his recent experience interviewing at a company. Changing jobs… Read More »
It’s part of a manager roles to have weekly 1:1 with people in your team and your peers. In this post, I’ll focus only on the 1:1s with people reporting to you. Manager Contract When someone new join my team or when I join a new team, I’m asking a set of questions to my… Read More »
The intention for this page is to capture bits and pieces of knowledge on product management… Product strategy How do we make the product vision a reality, while meeting the needs of the company as we go. It requires choice, thinking, and effort. Once the product strategy is defined, goals and roadmap need to be… Read More »
I was recently able to make good progress on a side project that I’ve been working on for some time. The idea is to have a ‘virtual assistant’ that will find action and meeting intents from the different channels of communication I’m using daily, for work or personally. Being always remote means that the digital… Read More »
I hope to keep this page up to date with the latest published papers that I found interesting on the topic of conversational AI, natural language processing (NLP), and knowledge extraction. This is only for the month of May, here’s the whole list on Conversational AI research papers. Fact-based Dialogue Generation with Convergent and Divergent… Read More »
I hope to keep this page up to date with the latest published papers that I found interesting on the topic of conversational AI, natural language processing (NLP), and knowledge extraction. May 2020 Fact-based Dialogue Generation with Convergent and Divergent Decoding Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both… Read More »
I’ve been struggling a bit to find a good way to display files hosted on GitHub on my blog directly. I didn’t like that most plugins uses Gist which doesn’t allow for a nice collaboration. I have received some good recommendation about improving codes that I shared some time ago. I’d prefer a system where… Read More »
Happy new year (if you are on the Gregorian calendar)!!! I’ve been willing to write a post for a while but so much have been going on in the last year that I couldn’t prioritize it. The value of having a blog for me was always to share knowledge with fellows on the web. I’ve… Read More »
Introduction In this post, I will demonstrate how to do a simple but useful scenario when managing Azure Machine Learning Workspaces and Experiments, copying all the experiments under one workspace, deploy a new workspace using ARM (Azure Resource Manager) in another region, and then copy the experiment under the newly deployed workspace. Preparation You will… Read More »
The lean startup by Eric Ries is a very interesting book about creating a successful business. It’s really a great read even if you are not working in a startup. Actually most large company moved away from previous development processes that didn’t adapt well to the new technologies. In today world, we ship software daily, sometimes… Read More »
I often wonder what makes some team more effective than other. Why I felt more empowered in some team compared to some others. The simplistic reasons that pops to mind are about the quality of the leadership and the joy experimented at work. The People Operation team at Google shared interesting conclusions from a study… Read More »
In the midst Microsoft’s transformation, in how we work within and between teams and groups, I’ve found this excellent book (suggested by one of our executive), Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal. This book relates how the best teams in the U.S. Army were not able to… Read More »
This book from Chris Hadfield was really fun to read, the first half of the book is about lessons he learned, as the title suggest, while the other part of the book is more a biographical stories about his time in preparing and staying in space. Notes Below are some quotes, that I have generalized… Read More »
I recently finished reading “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” from C. Dweck. I picked it up because it was part of the recommended books list from the C.E.O of the company where I work. There was some great learnings that I will definitely apply, mostly with my children and with myself from time to time… Read More »
“Zero to ONE: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future” is a great book by Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal and Palantir) about how to build the next Microsoft or Google. He has a pretty unique perspective on market and competition that are worth reading and knowing about. The book could be… Read More »