Product
How Apple has so far avoided layoff: Lean Hiring, No Free Lunches
These numbers are simply staggering.
Vandan Desai
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.
Product
Writing effective One Pagers
You know your one-pager is working when it sparks a conversation and interaction within the team. These conversation help create shared understanding around values, outcomes, impact, opportunity, viability and risk.
Photography
What’s the best camera?
I cannot stress enough but emphasize that the best camera is the one that is always on you. Once again waling my 4 legged friend for an early morning walk / play / run at Myrtle beach. The sun was just rising, but I was too late, lazy and tired to set
Product
A thread by Nikita Bier on Product Management & Entrepreneurship
A thread by Nikita Bier : After 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas. Building these products is an unforgiving grind—but I learned a lot along the way. For those embarking on this path, here's everything you need to
Photography
Winter Mornings!
When you have a dog, the most annoying thing is that rain or shine, hot or cold; you got to take him out for their early morning walk. The best part of walking your dog in winter are the magical sunrises and the colorful skies that are hard to miss.
Product
Focus on the One Thing!
Today, instead of making a long list of tasks, I simply look at my agenda and identify what's the one thing that I do today will have the highest impact.
Stuff
What happens when a CPU starts?
Came across this fascinating text file today https://lateblt.tripod.com/bit68.txt. Reminded me of my Computer Architecture class in college. Two things stood out and is proably the most important information: Generally, when a CPU chip first receives power, it must be reset by receiving a pulse on
Product
Why employee churn is lethal to Software
Even as a product manager when I pick up a software to further build it out, certain features need context becasue outright they just feel weird. Only after talking to first generation product manager, it becomes clear why a feature was built the way it is.
Product
Measuring HTTP Performance
In order to effectively measure HTTP based application performance, it is important to understand what happens when you type a URL in a browser and hit enter.
Stuff
Reading list for the new year
The 10 biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2022 The 10 biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2022From photos of the infant universe to an energy advancement that could save the planetThe WeekHarold Maass Nuclear Fusion, James Webb Telescope, Universal Flu Vaccination, Changing an asteroid's trajectory and so much more along with
Strategy
Study suggests hardware buttons are quicker & safer compared to touchscreens
Hardware works. Hardware is also expensive! Software is simply flexible compared to hardware
Photography
Continuing with Macro Photography
Continuing my experiments with marco photography. So far its just still life as I want to make sure I understand the macro world a lot better. Specially the light and the distance I need to have between the lense and the subject. Also, I need to improve my core; cause