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James Rubinstein

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Feb 22

How Will You Know a Product Manager? You Will Know Us by Our Decisions

I’ve talked before about how Search Product Management works, but maybe it’s time to take a step back and think about PM more broadly. What…

Acutal image of a PM riding their engineers to deliver FAST. “Yah horsey, yah!”

James Rubinstein

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Feb 22

The Future of User Experience is Philosophy

Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen — the progenitors of UX research and design, the usability gurus, the people who spent decades advocating for…

Socrates is your next product manager, and he is a harsh judge

James Rubinstein

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Dec 3, 2021

Want to get people back into the office? Give them offices!

As the Covid-19 pandemic becomes the COVID-22 pandemic, it seems increasingly unlikely that we may ever return to the office full-time. For…

a row of offices with sliding glass doors, with whiteboards, in an Apple office in Cupertino. Having offices with doors is probably why Apple is a trillion dollar company, I’m sure of it.

James Rubinstein

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Dec 11, 2020

Search Product Management: The Most Misunderstood Role in Search?

What does it mean to be a Product Manager (PM)? What does the search team do? What does the PM do for the search team at your organization…

A wagon wheel with multiple disciplines as the spokes and PM as the hub. They’re not more important, but they’re the hub

James Rubinstein

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Sep 16, 2020

The Launch Review: bringing it all together …

We’ve talked about statistical vs human approaches to search, we’ve talked about metrics, and we’ve talked about A/B testing. Now we’re…

The Launch Review: bringing it all together …

James Rubinstein

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Aug 26, 2020

How to spot pseudoscience on the internet — a case study with masks

The great advantage of the internet is that it allows anyone to publish anything (shout out to Medium!). The old gatekeepers are gone, so…

How to spot pseudoscience on the internet — a case study with masks

James Rubinstein

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Aug 21, 2020

A/B Testing Search: thinking like a scientist

In our last installment, we learned about the important of metrics and how the choice of metrics is so important to building, maintaining…

The scientific method, an oroborus of learning

James Rubinstein

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Jul 6, 2020

Measuring Search: Metrics Matter

What gets measured gets managed - Peter Drucker

Measuring Search: Metrics Matter

James Rubinstein

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Jun 4, 2020

Query Triage: The Secret Weapon for Search Relevance

Remember way back in my first post on search relevance how I said there’s a statistical and a human-centered approach to search…

Query Triage: The Secret Weapon for Search Relevance

James Rubinstein

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May 29, 2020

Setting up a relevance evaluation program

In my first couple of posts, I described the need for human- and metrics-centered approaches to relevance improvement and how we can…

Setting up a relevance evaluation program

James Rubinstein

James Rubinstein

Search nerd, data nerd, and all-around nerd-nerd. He has worked at eBay, Apple, and Pinterest, and currently leads the Product Analytics team at LexisNexis

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