Roger L. Cauvin
@rcauvin.bsky.social
♟️ #prodmgmt | Positioning | Strategy
👨🔬 Consumer Science | ML | AI
🏢 Downtown Austin dweller
🏘️ Advocate for inclusive neighborhoods
👨🔬 Consumer Science | ML | AI
🏢 Downtown Austin dweller
🏘️ Advocate for inclusive neighborhoods
"The solution is simple: breathe life into the vision. Take it off the slides and embed it into everyday product work."
www.mindtheproduct.com/vision-isnt-...
by @martarolak.bsky.social
#prodmgmt
www.mindtheproduct.com/vision-isnt-...
by @martarolak.bsky.social
#prodmgmt
Vision isn't a statement. It's a guide.
Discover why a great product vision means nothing if it stays on a slide. This article unpacks how Microsoft Teams lost sight of its vision—and how your product team can avoid the same trap by turning...
www.mindtheproduct.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"The solution is simple: breathe life into the vision. Take it off the slides and embed it into everyday product work."
www.mindtheproduct.com/vision-isnt-...
by @martarolak.bsky.social
#prodmgmt
www.mindtheproduct.com/vision-isnt-...
by @martarolak.bsky.social
#prodmgmt
In many AI scenarios, traditional and deep learning are still the best methods for the job.
towardsdatascience.com/the-three-ag...
towardsdatascience.com/the-three-ag...
The Three Ages of Data Science: When to Use Traditional Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or an LLM (Explained with One Example) | Towards Data Science
A practical use case to describe how the data scientist job changed across three generations of machine learning
towardsdatascience.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
In many AI scenarios, traditional and deep learning are still the best methods for the job.
towardsdatascience.com/the-three-ag...
towardsdatascience.com/the-three-ag...
Business goals are inward focused, and defining them has limited value. The real magic is in defining and measuring customer outcomes, and then showing how improving customer outcomes will lead to better business outcomes.
articles.centercentre.com/why-ux-outco...
articles.centercentre.com/why-ux-outco...
Why UX Outcomes Make Better Goals Than Business Outcomes - UX Articles by Center Centre
Increase subscription retention by 15% this quarter. Increase new policy subscriptions by 20% this year. These are common business outcomes, results the organization’s leadership wants to attain to ke...
articles.centercentre.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Business goals are inward focused, and defining them has limited value. The real magic is in defining and measuring customer outcomes, and then showing how improving customer outcomes will lead to better business outcomes.
articles.centercentre.com/why-ux-outco...
articles.centercentre.com/why-ux-outco...
When someone asks for a report, don't ask, "What do you want in the report?" Instead, ask what decisions it will help them make.
"Nobody wakes up in the morning and says today's going to be a great day, I'm going to produce 15 reports." - @jmspool.bsky.social
"Nobody wakes up in the morning and says today's going to be a great day, I'm going to produce 15 reports." - @jmspool.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
When someone asks for a report, don't ask, "What do you want in the report?" Instead, ask what decisions it will help them make.
"Nobody wakes up in the morning and says today's going to be a great day, I'm going to produce 15 reports." - @jmspool.bsky.social
"Nobody wakes up in the morning and says today's going to be a great day, I'm going to produce 15 reports." - @jmspool.bsky.social
Today's #AI and #ML models rely on memorization and "local generalization". Massive scaling has led to smarter models. But getting models to adapt to novel situations, where there is little or no data, will require more than just memorizing more data.
deeplearningwithpython.io/chapters/cha...
deeplearningwithpython.io/chapters/cha...
Deep Learning with Python, Third Edition
Deep Learning with Python is written for anyone who wishes to explore deep learning from scratch. This new edition adds comprehensive coverage of generative AI and modern deep learning frameworks. It ...
deeplearningwithpython.io
October 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today's #AI and #ML models rely on memorization and "local generalization". Massive scaling has led to smarter models. But getting models to adapt to novel situations, where there is little or no data, will require more than just memorizing more data.
deeplearningwithpython.io/chapters/cha...
deeplearningwithpython.io/chapters/cha...
Reposted by Roger L. Cauvin
To honorable City Council, Commissioners, & Staff:
DANA opposes height limits and other exclusionary zoning downtown, and we specifically oppose the base height limit proposed in the C20-2025-010 Central Business District (CBD) amendments. 🧵
DANA opposes height limits and other exclusionary zoning downtown, and we specifically oppose the base height limit proposed in the C20-2025-010 Central Business District (CBD) amendments. 🧵
October 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
To honorable City Council, Commissioners, & Staff:
DANA opposes height limits and other exclusionary zoning downtown, and we specifically oppose the base height limit proposed in the C20-2025-010 Central Business District (CBD) amendments. 🧵
DANA opposes height limits and other exclusionary zoning downtown, and we specifically oppose the base height limit proposed in the C20-2025-010 Central Business District (CBD) amendments. 🧵
Reposted by Roger L. Cauvin
The task of coming up with a long-term vision can feel daunting. However, if you break it into bite-sized pieces or visionettes, it makes it doable.
Here’s how you do it: https://articles.centercentre.com/building-an-experience-vision-from-a-journey-map/
Here’s how you do it: https://articles.centercentre.com/building-an-experience-vision-from-a-journey-map/
Building an Experience Vision From a Journey Map - UX Articles by Center Centre
The task of coming up with a long-term vision of your design can be a daunting one. It’s a lot of responsibility to imagine what an ideal experience can be, then render a possible design to achieve that experience. However, there’s a way to...
articles.centercentre.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The task of coming up with a long-term vision can feel daunting. However, if you break it into bite-sized pieces or visionettes, it makes it doable.
Here’s how you do it: https://articles.centercentre.com/building-an-experience-vision-from-a-journey-map/
Here’s how you do it: https://articles.centercentre.com/building-an-experience-vision-from-a-journey-map/
Wilson scoring is a simple way to score the popularity of items (such as comments on a Reddit post) based on up-votes and down-votes. As far back as 2009, Evan Miller pointed out the flaws in other methods (e.g. average rating).
www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-s...
H/T @kennyd.bsky.social
www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-s...
H/T @kennyd.bsky.social
How Not To Sort By Average Rating
Users are rating items on your website. How do you know what the highest-rated items are?
www.evanmiller.org
September 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Wilson scoring is a simple way to score the popularity of items (such as comments on a Reddit post) based on up-votes and down-votes. As far back as 2009, Evan Miller pointed out the flaws in other methods (e.g. average rating).
www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-s...
H/T @kennyd.bsky.social
www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-s...
H/T @kennyd.bsky.social
Reposted by Roger L. Cauvin
Join in for September's volunteer Shoal Creek clean-up session!
WHEN: Saturday, Sep 13 (8:45-9a)
WHERE: outside The Independent (301 West Ave)
The monthly collaboration continues with APD, DAA, & the Downtown Austin Community Court.
www.downtownaustin.org/september-20...
WHEN: Saturday, Sep 13 (8:45-9a)
WHERE: outside The Independent (301 West Ave)
The monthly collaboration continues with APD, DAA, & the Downtown Austin Community Court.
www.downtownaustin.org/september-20...
September Shoal Creek Clean-Up
WHAT: September Shoal Creek Clean-Up WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 13, 8:45 am WHERE: The Independent @ 301 West Ave. Volunteers will meet Saturday, September 13, 2025 outside The Independen…
www.downtownaustin.org
September 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Join in for September's volunteer Shoal Creek clean-up session!
WHEN: Saturday, Sep 13 (8:45-9a)
WHERE: outside The Independent (301 West Ave)
The monthly collaboration continues with APD, DAA, & the Downtown Austin Community Court.
www.downtownaustin.org/september-20...
WHEN: Saturday, Sep 13 (8:45-9a)
WHERE: outside The Independent (301 West Ave)
The monthly collaboration continues with APD, DAA, & the Downtown Austin Community Court.
www.downtownaustin.org/september-20...
"But strategy suffocates when everything gets reduced to a list. Lists coordinate. Loops adapt. You need both." - @paulisthrivving.xyz
medium.com/thrivve-part...
#prodmgmt
medium.com/thrivve-part...
#prodmgmt
Loop vs List: Why Most Strategies Die in Delivery
Why most strategies suffocate in delivery, and how to keep them alive
medium.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"But strategy suffocates when everything gets reduced to a list. Lists coordinate. Loops adapt. You need both." - @paulisthrivving.xyz
medium.com/thrivve-part...
#prodmgmt
medium.com/thrivve-part...
#prodmgmt
Words-based methods can sometimes find relevance where semantic-based retrieval and modeling fails. I've developed ensemble models to address these limitations.
www.alphaxiv.org/pdf/2508.21038
#ML #MLSky #AI
www.alphaxiv.org/pdf/2508.21038
#ML #MLSky #AI
On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval | alphaXiv
View recent discussion. Abstract: Vector embeddings have been tasked with an ever-increasing set of retrieval tasks over the years, with a nascent rise in using them for reasoning, instruction-followi...
www.alphaxiv.org
August 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Words-based methods can sometimes find relevance where semantic-based retrieval and modeling fails. I've developed ensemble models to address these limitations.
www.alphaxiv.org/pdf/2508.21038
#ML #MLSky #AI
www.alphaxiv.org/pdf/2508.21038
#ML #MLSky #AI
One of the most frustrating situations in civic advocacy is when potential allies think the cause has merit but is not "politically viable". Yet the reason it's not viable is that they, themselves, haven't publicly voiced their support.
August 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
One of the most frustrating situations in civic advocacy is when potential allies think the cause has merit but is not "politically viable". Yet the reason it's not viable is that they, themselves, haven't publicly voiced their support.
Also, strategy is largely about aligning current and future decisions with deliberate choices you've already made. #prodmgmt
Strategy is as much about when you do things as it is about what you do. Strategy is heavily concerned with timing and the impact of timing on leverage (urgency).
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-374-pr...
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-374-pr...
TBM 374: Strategy & Urgency
This is a post about strategy and prioritization, and how reframing urgency can help you be more strategic AND prioritize more effectively.
cutlefish.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Also, strategy is largely about aligning current and future decisions with deliberate choices you've already made. #prodmgmt
Reposted by Roger L. Cauvin
Come out to DANA's End of Summer Urban Core Happy Hour this Sun, Aug 24 at The Stay Put (73 Rainey St.) from 4-7pm!
Our guest speaker will be Davon Barbour, CEO of @DowntownATXInfo! Entry comes with 2 free drink tickets & appetizers.
More info and RSVP here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/dana-end-o...
Our guest speaker will be Davon Barbour, CEO of @DowntownATXInfo! Entry comes with 2 free drink tickets & appetizers.
More info and RSVP here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/dana-end-o...
August 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Come out to DANA's End of Summer Urban Core Happy Hour this Sun, Aug 24 at The Stay Put (73 Rainey St.) from 4-7pm!
Our guest speaker will be Davon Barbour, CEO of @DowntownATXInfo! Entry comes with 2 free drink tickets & appetizers.
More info and RSVP here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/dana-end-o...
Our guest speaker will be Davon Barbour, CEO of @DowntownATXInfo! Entry comes with 2 free drink tickets & appetizers.
More info and RSVP here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/dana-end-o...
"Google seems to be working on bringing NotebookLM to Gemini, combining two of its most powerful AI apps.
The option to import notebooks will reportedly appear in the same menu where you currently add images, files, or Google Drive documents to Gemini."
www.androidpolice.com/googles-best...
The option to import notebooks will reportedly appear in the same menu where you currently add images, files, or Google Drive documents to Gemini."
www.androidpolice.com/googles-best...
Google's best AI tools could finally join forces
NotebookLM integration might turn Gemini into a serious research tool
www.androidpolice.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Google seems to be working on bringing NotebookLM to Gemini, combining two of its most powerful AI apps.
The option to import notebooks will reportedly appear in the same menu where you currently add images, files, or Google Drive documents to Gemini."
www.androidpolice.com/googles-best...
The option to import notebooks will reportedly appear in the same menu where you currently add images, files, or Google Drive documents to Gemini."
www.androidpolice.com/googles-best...
Without much fanfare, @divyasreepat.bsky.social and her team have released Keras 3.11. It includes support for Grain, a declarative data processing solution similar to TensorFlow datasets, yet not dependent on TensorFlow or any particular backend.
github.com/google/grain
#MachineLearning #ML #AI
github.com/google/grain
#MachineLearning #ML #AI
GitHub - google/grain: Library for reading and processing ML training data.
Library for reading and processing ML training data. - google/grain
github.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Without much fanfare, @divyasreepat.bsky.social and her team have released Keras 3.11. It includes support for Grain, a declarative data processing solution similar to TensorFlow datasets, yet not dependent on TensorFlow or any particular backend.
github.com/google/grain
#MachineLearning #ML #AI
github.com/google/grain
#MachineLearning #ML #AI
Great to see @lauraries.bsky.social on Substack, and I'm looking forward to reading her new book on defining an "enemy" to build and position a brand.
riespositioning.substack.com
#positioning #prodmgmt #prodmktg #strategy
riespositioning.substack.com
#positioning #prodmgmt #prodmktg #strategy
Ries is Positioning | Laura Ries | Substack
The Pioneers of Positioning welcome you into our club. Sharing all the tools in the RIES Positioning Toolbox to help you build a brand worth fighting for. Click to read Ries is Positioning, a Substack...
riespositioning.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Great to see @lauraries.bsky.social on Substack, and I'm looking forward to reading her new book on defining an "enemy" to build and position a brand.
riespositioning.substack.com
#positioning #prodmgmt #prodmktg #strategy
riespositioning.substack.com
#positioning #prodmgmt #prodmktg #strategy
"A very thin line separates the 'good' kind of personalization from the creepy kind."
thedecisionlab.com/insights/tec...
by Preeti Kotamarthi
#ML #MachineLearning
thedecisionlab.com/insights/tec...
by Preeti Kotamarthi
#ML #MachineLearning
thedecisionlab.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"A very thin line separates the 'good' kind of personalization from the creepy kind."
thedecisionlab.com/insights/tec...
by Preeti Kotamarthi
#ML #MachineLearning
thedecisionlab.com/insights/tec...
by Preeti Kotamarthi
#ML #MachineLearning
No matter how good the play-calling, no matter how good the quarterback, no matter how good the running backs, a football team won't be successful if team members don't do the fundamentals of blocking and tackling.
July 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
No matter how good the play-calling, no matter how good the quarterback, no matter how good the running backs, a football team won't be successful if team members don't do the fundamentals of blocking and tackling.
Instead of story points, use Roman Estimation to "right-size" work.
mdalmijn.com/p/roman-esti...
by Maarten Dalmijn
#prodmgmt #agile
mdalmijn.com/p/roman-esti...
by Maarten Dalmijn
#prodmgmt #agile
Roman Estimation: A Simple, Easy and Quick Alternative to Story Points
Don't Fix Your Story Points or Velocity, Just Stop Using Them
mdalmijn.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Instead of story points, use Roman Estimation to "right-size" work.
mdalmijn.com/p/roman-esti...
by Maarten Dalmijn
#prodmgmt #agile
mdalmijn.com/p/roman-esti...
by Maarten Dalmijn
#prodmgmt #agile
Aside from the artificial distinction between vision and strategy, this Roman Pichler piece rightly describes some common mistakes in attempting to define a product vision.
romanpichler.medium.com/5-product-vi...
#prodmgmt
romanpichler.medium.com/5-product-vi...
#prodmgmt
5 Product Vision Mistakes You Should Avoid
The product vision can be a powerful vehicle for creating a shared purpose, inspiring people, and galvanising them. Unfortunately, I have…
romanpichler.medium.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Aside from the artificial distinction between vision and strategy, this Roman Pichler piece rightly describes some common mistakes in attempting to define a product vision.
romanpichler.medium.com/5-product-vi...
#prodmgmt
romanpichler.medium.com/5-product-vi...
#prodmgmt
"Does this feature make users more human, or less?"
#AI and machine learning are transforming user experiences in ways you may not be aware of - and that can be a good thing.
medium.com/@mrunalsurya...
#AI and machine learning are transforming user experiences in ways you may not be aware of - and that can be a good thing.
medium.com/@mrunalsurya...
Hooked by AI: How Machine Learning Creates Irresistible User Experiences
You unlock your phone with a clear purpose. Ten minutes later, you can't remember what it was, but you know seventeen new things about…
medium.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"Does this feature make users more human, or less?"
#AI and machine learning are transforming user experiences in ways you may not be aware of - and that can be a good thing.
medium.com/@mrunalsurya...
#AI and machine learning are transforming user experiences in ways you may not be aware of - and that can be a good thing.
medium.com/@mrunalsurya...
Almost 15 years after @ashmaurya.bsky.social introduced the lean canvas, it remains one of the most important artifacts a product team can produce. Ash's explanation of it contains many important lessons for #prodmgmt.
www.leanfoundry.com/articles/wha...
www.leanfoundry.com/articles/wha...
What is a Lean Canvas? | LEANFoundry
A Lean Canvas replaces long and boring business plans with a 1-page Business Model that takes 20 minutes to create, and that gets read.
www.leanfoundry.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Almost 15 years after @ashmaurya.bsky.social introduced the lean canvas, it remains one of the most important artifacts a product team can produce. Ash's explanation of it contains many important lessons for #prodmgmt.
www.leanfoundry.com/articles/wha...
www.leanfoundry.com/articles/wha...
Jenny Wanger on analyzing competitors' strategies instead of features: jennywanger.com/articles/you...
The level of detail obscures what matters most, though. We mostly need to know what word a competitor owns in the minds of prospects, so we can find a different one to own.
#prodmgmt #positioning
The level of detail obscures what matters most, though. We mostly need to know what word a competitor owns in the minds of prospects, so we can find a different one to own.
#prodmgmt #positioning
Your competitors are telling you their strategy • Jenny Wanger
Your competition isn’t publishing a strategy document. But if you look carefully, you’ll see their strategy on one page – pricing.
jennywanger.com
June 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Jenny Wanger on analyzing competitors' strategies instead of features: jennywanger.com/articles/you...
The level of detail obscures what matters most, though. We mostly need to know what word a competitor owns in the minds of prospects, so we can find a different one to own.
#prodmgmt #positioning
The level of detail obscures what matters most, though. We mostly need to know what word a competitor owns in the minds of prospects, so we can find a different one to own.
#prodmgmt #positioning