Publications & Writing
Perspectives on data products, competitive intelligence, and product-led growth from the Mediumroast team.
TL;DR: For those who know me, you’ll hear me say “IT is a fashion industry.” I thought I was being humorous, maybe even novel. I wasn’t. Eric Abrahamson wrote the actual theory of “management fashion” in 1996, and it maps onto the data platform market with unsettling precision. T
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TL;DR: Data is the ledger of how your business runs. When the format that ledger lives in belongs to one vendor, and there’s no clear path off it, you haven’t bought a data platform you’ve quietly handed over part ownership of your business. Open table formats exist to prevent ex
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TL;DR: Global IC data is a fragmented messy data problem spanning many country-specific systems, provided in inconsistent formats, largely not multi-lingual, and without common structure. This is not a niche problem as IC Systems data sits underneath many software and services. W
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I mostly reject press releases that claim to have “solved” engineering problems which have been worked for decades.
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TL;DR: Major AI coding tools tackle multi-repo awareness through tooling like AGENTS.md, git worktrees, or MCP plumbing. These approaches treat context as a retrieval process. Manifold treats it as a coordination problem, which are very different things. Here’s what we built, why
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Following up from “A case for API based open company firmographics”, we’ve updated and put out a major new release of the company_dns. While there is documentation to update and odds and ends to fix, the bones are there. If you’d like to give it a spin check out https://company-d
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The product landscape is littered with brilliant failures because Products teams don’t build evidence based plans based upon market insights. To further accelerate our desire to learn and help Products teams build evidenced based plans I’m announcing that Mediumroast is giving aw
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I mostly reject the shift from “eating our own dog food” to “drinking our own Champagne”! There I said it.
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In recent years, attention mechanisms have transformed the landscape of AI by powering innovations in natural language processing, computer vision, and audio application such as text-to-speech. From OpenAI’s ChatGPT models to Google’s BERT, attention has become the ba
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Roasting Plant Coffee, here at San Francisco International Airport, employs their JavaBot (video story for the birth of the JavaBot) to deliver you a “bespoke” coffee brew delivered a cup at a time just in time. In a very real sense when you enter one of their stores you’re insid
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