Product Management. Builder. Photographer. I find happiness in backlogs & deadlines, jubilation in code and ecstasy behind a camera lens. I pursue the ephemeral and the permanent all around the world.
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Justin Bariso writing for Inc. on explaining emotional intelligence when reporters asked Tom Brady if he was going to retire after the Bucs lost to Rams last weekend: Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion. Nice, short and simple read, but does extremely well to explain how
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5G versus the airlines is potentially a real issue, rather than a bogus threat. But it’s likely that the parties involved will work out adjustments soon. Which is a good thing.
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Marty Cagan writing for SVPG on scaling your product with people instead of processes: I loved reading this article particularly because he simply uses quotes from former CEO’s who have focused on people rather than processes to scale new heights for their product. My favorite quote here is from
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Good error messages are important. When things go wrong, these error messages are the only communication channel between your software and customer. A good error message will allow your customer to recover well or submit a support ticket - and thats $ we are talking about.
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Down south, in a small village near Hasan in Karnataka, IN the celebration is a tad different. Here the farmers along with their bulls jump over burning fire to ensure the evil spirits stay away from their fields and help get a good crop yield.
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Dan Petrov found a cool new utility: It seems that Apple has quietly added a new tool in macOS Monterey for measuring your device’s Internet connectivity quality. You can simply call the executable networkQuality, which executes the following tests: - Upload/download capacity (your Tx/Rx bandwidth essentially) -
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When it comes to adding a feature to your product, there are countless ways of doing this - and we still mess it up. However, when it comes to killing a feature there isn’t much out there.
Photography
One needs to be here early morning before sunrise to capture the view; but I had to settle for the sunset. This view ain’t too bad. The History of Sleepy Hollow Farm | How a Humble Vermont Homestead Became an Instagram Icon Good read!
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As a product manager by trade, I don’t need sit and learn programming languages as I’m not expected to site down and write code. But the engineering in me wants to keep building. Looking at data is a big part of my day-to-day work. You might have a
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The lack of giving up control and delegating to your product team is probably the biggest reason I see very few product empowered teams.
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You have to listen to the podcast to understand why a country or its culture is shaped the way it is. It's not just entire countries, but even states within the US have tight or loose culture.