Hey 👋. I’m Matt.
I lead product operations across CVS Health’s infrastructure and security organization — unifying roadmaps, resolving cross-team dependencies, and building the practices that let good people stop debating who decides what and start solving real problems.
After 15+ years in these types of spaces, I keep coming back to three ideas:
- How you think changes what is possible — you can’t prioritize what you can’t see; map competing mental models to make the landscape visible, then decide where to move
- Team boundaries shape system architecture — the org chart, project list, and capability map tell you more about what you’ll build than any technology choice or leadership mandate
- Every org has an operating system, but few know their operating model — the goal can’t start with simpler systems; first make the implicit knowable and the relationships between goals comprehensible, then pursue outcomes — technological, cultural, or product
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Applying Team Topologies to Marketing and Community
The following is a long post I’ve thought about for years.
Dont Confuse Your Skills with Your Job Title
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Work as a Game – Both Finite and Infinite
Work as a Game: Play as Both Finite and Infinite “A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
Make Obsidian a Digital Garden
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Make Obsidian inline dataview properties prettier with this CSS
I’ve found it far more useful to use Obsidian properties when I see them.
My Path to Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
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Takeaways from reading Transformed by Marty Cagan
I recently finished “Transformed” by Marty Cagan and team, and it’s helping me connect some crucial dots about how modern product organizations actually work.
My Product Management Learning Path
I’ve been thinking a lot about my learning path as a product leader.
Tips for your first 30 days of remote work
I have spent over 10 years working primarily remote, and they have taught me practices I will implement from day one of a new job.
So You Lost Your Job: Now What?
Some of the most talented, thoughtful, and effective people I have ever worked with were recently laid off.