Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. I used to do whatever I felt like doing – it didn’t have to do with whether it was important for the development of nuclear physics, but whether it was interesting and amusing for me to play with. When I was in high school, I’d see...
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Custom gpts FOR PM
Two custom GPTs for product sense and product execution interview prep.
Product sense GPT
Product Execution GPT
Created by Marily Nika
reading list
๐๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐: ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ The Making of a Manager: Complete guide for new managers covering all the essential skills. Radical Candor: Focused specifically on the tough skill of providing candid feedback and guidance. ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐: ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ Playing to Win: Engaging primer on business strategy packed with case studies. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: Goes beyond surface-level strategy tips to examine the...
Electric vehicles in 2024
Good read from Business insider on the softness in EV business in 2024, what is not working, and how government incentives played out in Norway. Large cars: Automakers argued that this was proof that people wanted only big cars, so they cut small models and made existing vehicles bigger, which made people with smaller cars feel less safe โ you get the picture. Range anxiety: Since Americans have...
tech notes
40 Tech terms explained for dummies โ link How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they’ve solved. link WHAT IS IPV4 VS IPV6? IPv4 is 32 bit IP and is written in decimal as four numbers separated by periods. Each...
PM Reader
CANON โโฆ.smart-creative product managers need to find the technical insights that make products better. These derive from knowing how people use the products (and how those patterns will change as technology progresses), from understanding and analyzing data, and from looking at technology trends and anticipating how they will affect their industry.โ Classics โ Product Management Classics PM...
Tech predictions 2024
Sources: Dell Geekwire Predictions: AI as a fundamental platform shift is here Unprecedented wave of startup acquisitions and wind downs โBy the end of 2024, machines will write more than half of the new code generated globally.โ “Shift away from text/chat-based UX for AI-native applications in 2024” “โGenAI will move from proof of concept to proof of productivity...
Insights – Global trade
Insights: Growth in the trade in goods used to bring the world together, since 2008 that baton has passed to intangibles (data and IP), services (IT and professional services), and people (international students) No country gained more of global supply share than China (see below), and Japan lost the most Barriers to trade in most services are two or three orders of magnitude higher than those...
Smell of the workplace
Fontainebleau and Downtown Calcutta You want me to take initiative. You want me to cooperate, voluntarily, with others around me. You want me to learn continuously and bring the benefits of that learning to my work, to my job, to the company, to its success. How do we get into those behaviors if around me it is the smell of the place you create? If youโd asked these questions to your...