My name is Simon; I spend my time thinking about how we work, work together, and work remotely. I speak sometimes, mostly about remote work, product discovery, and organizational design.

I’m a member of the Media Product organization at Disney Streaming, bringing the best storytelling of our generation to all corners of the world. There I lead a team of product folks focusing on the tiny space between pressing play and the first frame rendering – a lot has to happen in that tiny space, and it all has to go perfectly right; context detection, media selection and matching, setting up experiments, balancing cost and quality within the distribution mesh, and then managing how we hop around the ABR ladder. It’s a very interesting problem space, and with 200+ million customers, one of significant customer and business value.

Previously I worked on Product at Fishtown Analytics, the folks behind the world-changing dbt – before that I ran the data product & analytics function for WordPress.com and Automattic.

I think that mutual wins are possible and available. I think product management can be a scalable, sustainable route to building and optimizing both the products we build and the organizations we use to build them. I I believe that actionable insights can be found for any business, and lessons from Big Data can bear fruit for smaller business, organizations, and maybe families too.

I think that when we work together, we can change each other’s minds and change the world. I think cooperation beats competition. I believe in open source.

In my blog I mostly write about things I’ve read or things I’m thinking about. Big topics tend to be remote work, leading remote teams, and some critical thinking about organizations and transparency.

If this is your first time here, you can see my most popular Posts in the sidebar of this page. You can also connect with me on LinkedIn, which I try to keep professional and relevant.