A painterly view of the Melbourne skyline across the Yarra, with the Arts Centre spire, Flinders Street and the city reflected in the river.

Inquisitivity

let's figure it all out

A painted cut-paper portrait of Jericho Mendoza.

The work, and who does it

Hey there,I'm Jericho Mendoza.

I'm a Product Manager in Australia, and I specialise in AI. Inquisitivity is where I follow my curiosity in public, sharing what I learn as I go.

What formed me first

Before all this, I was a choreographer.

Seven years of it. And one thing carried straight over. You start with something that only exists in your head, you bring a group of people toward it, and you end up with something none of you could have made alone.

A painted theatre ensemble in a broad formation, heads lowered as each dancer holds the same gesture at their waist.

A Melbourne horizon leads into Jericho's portrait and introduction. A painted rail map then joins a woven archive of eight dance paintings, connecting his current work with the choreography that formed it.

I started Inquisitivity because

Curiosity moves us forward when everything keeps changing.

It's a place to share learnings about tech, product, work and people, written in plain language to help make sense of what's actually going on.

  1. A climbing gym booking report sits beside a stack of cancellation notes at the front desk.
    Product & Business

    The bookings went up. Did the product get better?

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  2. A runner faces a flat loop and a steep teal trail while repeated orange route traces climb through the hills.
    Technology

    How do we actually know if an AI feature is any good?

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  3. A newcomer holding rental climbing shoes studies several routes across a sunlit indoor bouldering wall.
    Product & Business

    The product manager I'm trying to become

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  4. An AI host coordinates three separate MCP paths to calendar, notes and booking capabilities.
    Technology

    Connect the robot to its tools, with MCP

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  5. A travel planner sends an orange request across a bridge to a weather service and receives rain data in return.
    Technology

    How APIs make separate apps feel like one

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  6. Two lit rooms seen from outside at dusk, with a dark gap between them
    Perspectives

    What's your perspective on AI?

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  7. A small figure follows an orange path through a series of thresholds towards a distant handover.
    Technology

    What we hand over to an AI agent

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  8. Two people weave loose threads at the edge of a vast ordered tapestry.
    Perspectives

    The exceptions were the job

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  9. Three painted circular forms in teal, cream and muted orange consume and reshape one another as their scopes overlap.
    Perspectives

    BA, PO and PM are three different crafts

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  10. A person holds a ladder at a cliff edge while a group walks towards a different horizon below.
    Perspectives

    The thing that got you here is now in the way

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  11. A still person stands between translucent figures rehearsing movement on both sides.
    Perspectives

    Why you freeze when it matters

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  12. Four people sail a rough sea while a weighted line probes the unseen depth below them.
    Perspectives

    You might be running on vibes

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Writing

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Perspectives

Commentary on AI, knowledge work, product and how people work together.

Technology

Things I learn about technology and how it changes the way we work, shared in case they help someone else figure it out too.

Product & Business

Plain explanations of how useful things get created, adopted, measured, improved and grown, whether inside an organisation or independently.