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Using a Priority Matrix: Assessing Research Risk and Problem Clarity for Your Product Design Projects

January 27, 2025 • 3 min read

Your research investment should match your certainty and risk - from quick wins with clear problems to deep dives when the stakes are high and the path ahead is foggy.

My Venn Diagram of Specialities: Academic Rigor Meets Startup Speed

January 19, 2025 • 3 min read

How I blend academic rigor and startup scrappiness with hands-on expertise to lead impactful research initiatives that transform products, programs, customer and user experiences.

The Right People, The Right Research: Field Notes from a Decade of Building High-Signal Participant Programs

January 13, 2025 • 4 min read

I show you how to turn your biggest research recruitment headaches into your strongest competitive advantage – without breaking your budget or timeline.

Documentation as a Trust-Building Tool: A Strategic Approach to Change Management & Program Adoption

December 22, 2024 • 8 min read

How I transformed a struggling Voice of Customer program at a 90M+ user B2C platform by treating internal documentation as a product.

I Built a Website in 21 Days: Documenting my Design, Accessibility, and Programming Language Journey

December 10, 2024 • 16 min read

My process of combining human-centred design practices to optimize for accessibility, while learning basic programming to build, develop, and deploy a website.

When Autoship Fails to be Automatic: Task Analysis Case Study

November 23, 2024 • 5 min read

My user experience headache in attempting to add an item to my PetValue autoship order, requiring the need to cancel original and create brand new order.

This Matrix is Real: Using Win Expectancy Matrix Calculations During Live Baseball Games

November 1, 2024 • 9 min read

A Win Expectancy Matrix predicts, in real time, the probability for a team to win, telling us what each game state condition is worth.

If A Baseball Analytics Tree Is Described In A Forest, Can Anyone See It?

October 22, 2024 • 8 min read

Outlining The Relationship Between Baseball Data Analytics Portals: A Primer

What Are Layoffs?An Organizational Behavior Perspective

September 15, 2024 • 11 min read

Failing to appropriately appraise and meet team needs is consequential regardless of company culture, but can be catastrophic post layoffs.

How to Train GenAI to Work as Your Personal Research Assistant

August 14, 2024 • 11 min read

GenAI pulls from limited resources—and only knows as much as you tell it. These tips will help you improve its effectiveness for research purposes.

Mid-Season Closing Pitcher Reevaluation Strategy: Help From My Gen AI Assistant

July 31, 2024 • 2 min read

A good researcher, using GenAI, will direct their assistant with actionable prompts.

Selecting Which Players When: GenAI Prompting for Fantasy Baseball Draft Strategy

May 15, 2024 • 10 min read

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Figure 1: ChatGPT Dall-E 3 generated image, ostensibly depicting our draft strategy+ - this is a footnote you’ll be sorry to miss

TL;DR Getting information inputs, or “prompts”, wrong could mean your GenAI assistant helped you develop a useless strategy. In fantasy baseball, it’s not the end of the world. But it might be when wrongfully applied to a crucial product development for your business, for example.

This post is an expanded addendum to my previous one, on using Generative AI for developing a fantasy baseball draft strategy (I’m using ChatGPT). I’ll give away the ending — regardless of utilizing GenAI or not, this post is also a foil for how a draft strategy is only as good as your ability to draw upon your own previous research, in a live format++.

Maximizing Fantasy Baseball Draft Strategy: Leveraging GenAI for Starting Pitcher Selection

April 12, 2024 • 6 min read

I wrote a formula for calculating a ranked pitcher score for my player drafting strategy, With the assistance of GenAI.