Ken Norton, who always brings the donuts, delivers some wisdom from his career in product management.
The “art” of product management matters more than the “science” over the long term. In product management, there’s an art and a science. The science is all of the stuff you read about: managing…
Robin Sloan, in The slab and the permacomputer, puts a finger on what makes deploying a contract to the Ethereum blockchain feel so…different.
Even so, I can’t deny that Ethereum’s “world computer” is interesting and, even more than that, evocative. The Ethereum blockchain is one entity, shared globally, agreed upon…
Lorin Hochstein has a great, short post about the distinction between modernism and post-modernism, and the connection to software engineering. In short, modernists believe that the world is turbulent and dynamic, and can be constantly remade anew; while post-modernists believe that “we can never cast off our history and start…
Gibson Biddle has an amazing retrospective of 20 years of personalization at Netflix, and its role in the company’s product strategy. The screenshots alone are worth the trip down memory lane.
It took Netflix more than a decade to demonstrate that a personalized experience improved retention. But consistent growth in…
Marcin Wichary on The Making of Four Laps:
“Why did I do this? It seemed like a weird gimmick and a fun challenge. Like with many of my weird creative projects, for most of the time I assumed that this will fail — after all, I have heard of anyone doing something like this, and I had no idea if the tech was even available — but at least I will learn something.”
If you haven’t watched it yet, you should. I won’t spoil it for you.
This post from Cory Doctorow is one of the best pieces on blogging I’ve ever read. Twenty years of a sustained practice of thinking in public; Cory’s ongoing work at Boing Boing and on his personal sites is inspiring. I loved his notion of writing to build an audience, instead of writing to serve an audience.
