There's something genuinely humbling about realising how directly connected we are to all the hominins that came before us. Not just as a vague evolutionary chain, but as overlapping populations that met, mixed, had children together, and left traces of themselves in our DNA. Neanderthals are still in us. So are the Denisovans. That's not a metaphor — it's measurable. And that's what drew me into this subject. Over the past few months, I've been digging into the story of human origins — trying to stay as close as possible to actual scientific papers rather than YouTube videos or oversimplified timelines. The deeper you go, the more interesting and messier things get. Dates shift. Research teams disagree. And some of the most widely shared "facts" online simply don't hold up. I'll be honest about how this was built. The data was collected through AI-assisted deep search across recent research papers — not a manual literature review, but structured...
Over the last few years, I’ve seen the same pattern again and again. The agile movement helped me a lot. It pushed me to focus on real outcomes for users, and on changes that are clear and valuable for buyers. Product management brings the whole picture and structures the discovery phase. From a product marketing point of view, it became easier to speak about pains and benefits in simple terms. But with executives, something was still missing. At first, I spoke about process. Then I tried to speak about “value”. Every time it was too long, too fuzzy, and it didn’t really land. I did not have a short, clear way to explain why a product decision mattered in a language that made sense for executives. That’s why Rich Mironov’s talk “ Crafting business cases that win ” at Productized conference really connected with me. He starts from a very clear point: most executives do not care about our backlogs, frameworks, or internal product practices. They care about revenue this quart...