Musings of a generalist
Tinkerer, Builder, Learner
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01 / About
Tinkerer, Builder, Learner
I do product management and marketing for security products. The work is mostly translation: taking genuinely hard technology and making it something people can understand and choose. The rest of the time I build and fly drones, at a crash rate I have stopped defending.
I find that the essence of the work is translation and keeping an eye out for what people DO when they use a product rather than what they say.
02 / What I Do
Product Management
Working out what a product actually does for someone, then making the roadmap answer that question.
Security products carry two audiences at once. There is the analyst who will live inside the tool every day and knows exactly where it wastes their time. There is also the executive who signs for it, carries the risk, and may never open it. A roadmap has to hold both without collapsing into either.
Most of the work happens before anything gets built: talking to the people who will use it, separating the loud request from the common one, and deciding what the product will refuse to do. The decisions that matter are usually about scope rather than features.
- Discovery and customer research
- Roadmap and prioritisation
- Requirements and delivery
- Working with engineering and design
03 / What I Do
Product Marketing
Making the value legible before the pressure arrives.
Security gets bought in a hurry, often after something has gone wrong. By then nobody has the patience for a subtle argument. The work is to have the story straight in advance: what the category is, why this approach holds up, and what proof exists.
The test I care about is simple. When a champion argues for the product internally and I am nowhere in the room, do they still have the words? If they do, the messaging works. If they improvise, it does not.
- Positioning and messaging
- Launches and narrative
- Competitive and analyst context
- Enablement for sales teams
04 / Flying
Multirotor Videography
Cinematic FPV in the canyon
My obession with first person view flying started with a radio controlled RC Champ with an 808 keychain camera duct-taped underneath with a transmitter broacasting a live feed to a pair of dubiously assembled box goggles. These days I mostly fly DJI and TBS setups with a sub 250g build running an O4 Pro.
A quadcopter is a curious creature in that unlike planes, it has no control surfaces at all. Every movement (roll, pitch, and yaw) comes from four or more motors disagreeing with each other in a very precise way.
Fly a wireframe quadcopter in the browser and experience the frustration and joys of flying a multi-rotor. Keyboard controls only for now, no objectives. Unfortunately doesn;t work on mobile phones (yet).
05 / Photography
Bird Photography
Asian Paradise Flycatcher (juvenile)
Sinhagad Valley · 1 of 8
Mostly birds, mostly at dawn, mostly waiting. The Sinhagad valley draws flycatchers down from the Western Ghats, Kruger has the big obvious things, and Mulshi turns up pit vipers and butterflies if you look carefully.
One of my leafbird images ended up on Wikipedia, which pleases me more than it probably should.
See the full archive →Always glad to hear from former students, and from anyone who has also lost a drone to a tree.
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