Topi Ranta

Thinking…

Orbiting…

Beaming…

Here are some hard-to-guess entries from my resume:

I have worked in marketing, hosted 100 podcast episodes, managed backlogs and roadmaps, studied quantum computing in machine learning context and so on.

Would you like me to generate more examples?

AI is really just a new step in IT history books. The same old computers with the same old binary and basic arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Nothing new, just more of it. But in a cool wrapping.

And probably beyond classical computing turbocharged with massive loads of data there is something new lurking around the corner. Like quantum stuff.

I’ve become quite good at solving The New York Times Strands puzzle. But the NYT’s Connections is still a bit difficult because it has a lot of baseball stuff and other U.S. specific words we are not so familiar with in Europe.

Usually walls and doors.

Way back when I worked with software products we had an eccentric designer consultant working for us. He once asked us if we wanted our software products to smell and taste the same.

Now I don’t know if you have ever used SaaS products but the thing with SaaS is that they never smell or taste and licking your computer screen does not help. So why would you use words like that?

When you discuss with people to set strategic goals it often fails because everyday words are linked to everyday mindset. If you ask whether we should implement a shared design system and a frontend component library you get a conversation about how burdensome it is, who does not want to work on a shared codebase with the annoying person on the other team and how one person’s aunt once got confused because the milk carton appearance changed.

But if you ask whether we want the products to smell and taste the same, then you might actually get to see if people agree with the goal.