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12 principles of Agile

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Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale. Business people and developers...

10 themes from Lenny’s Podcast

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The 10 most Important themes from Lenny’s Podcast Activation Is Everything — Slack’s “2,000 messages” moment, Gamma’s 30-second magic. Get users to value fast. Storytelling as a Superpower — Compelling narratives align organizations better than documents. Positioning Is Strategy, Not Marketing — April Dunford’s 5-step framework that starts with competitive...

Key ML equations – Primer

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Get ChatGPT to teach you the equations from this post which explores “the most critical equations in machine learning, from foundational probability and linear algebra to advanced concepts like diffusion and attention.”

Building consumer social apps

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Based on Nikita Bier’s Twitter thread In the world of consumer social, success often masquerades as luck. But behind every “overnight” sensation lies relentless iteration, psychological insight, and ruthless prioritization. The playbook – 🎾 Test Often. Test Fast. The next big idea is overrated. The next 20 small experiments are underrated. Success rarely comes from divine...

Strategy notes: Competitive strategy – Defense

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Defense strategies Position defenseprotect the shire – or defend and reinforce your most established product.like Coca Cola spending on brandFlank defensedefend vulnerable areas a.k.a flanksiPhone SE for price sensitive segments, Uni- -lever bottom of pyramid in IndiaPre-emptive defenseDisrupt competitors before they act with pricing strategies, loyalty programs, aggressive marketing, or...

TIL – OPEN BANKING

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Good primer on open banking by Blanca labs – PDF Open Banking is transforming financial services by enabling secure data sharing between banks and authorized third-party providers (TPPs) through APIs. Key Themes: • From Screen Scraping to Open Banking: Screen scraping is insecure. Open Banking addresses this with standardized APIs and enhanced security, ensuring transparent and secure data...

Product strategy memo

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1. Executive Summary TL;DR 2. Market and the Customer Target Customers: Who are your target customers? Include demographic and psychographic profiles. Customer Segmentation: Overview of the key customer segments, their needs, behaviors, and pain points. Value Proposition: What is the value proposition? Describe how your product or service uniquely meets the needs of your target customers...

Electric vehicles in 2024

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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 — you get the picture. Range anxiety: Since Americans have...

tech notes

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40 Tech terms explained for dummies – 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

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CANON “….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.” Classics – Product Management ClassicsPM...

Smell of the workplace

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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 you’d asked these questions to your...

Breakthrough technologies 2017

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MIT review’s yearly list is here. 2017 list includes – Facial recognition has existed for decades, but only now is it accurate enough to be used in secure financial transactions. The new versions use deep learning, an artificial-intelligence technique that is especially effective for image recognition because it makes a computer zero in on the facial features that will most reliably...

Breakthrough technologies 2015

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Augmented reality to growing brain cells to large scale desalination, some of these technologies are already here, some give a lot of hope and we need a few of them yesterday.  Here is MIT’s list for 2015.

Magic LeapNano-ArchitectureCar-to-Car CommunicationProject LoonLiquid BiopsyMegascale DesalinationApple PayBrain OrganoidsSupercharged PhotosynthesisInternet of DNA

Top 10 from MIT review.

Oculus rift – inside story

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“I think I’ve seen five or six computer demos in my life that made me think the world was about to change,” he says. “Apple II, Netscape, Google, iPhone … then Oculus. It was that kind of amazing.” By December, Oculus had closed Series B funding—with Andreessen Horowitz leading—for $75 million. Peter Rubin’s inside story on Oculus Rift and  how virtual reality is coming of age...

Books – The inevitable – kevin kelly

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Founder editor of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly in his book The Inevitable, talks about some of the technology trends that will shape society and consumption over the next few decades. He identifies 12 patterns – Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning , Beginning. Of these Flowing refers to the technology...

books – bob iger’s ride of a lifetime

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The three pillars of his strategy for Disney are – great content, great technology (distribution) and global expansion. Not path breaking, it’s the time tested inventory, conversion and traffic playbook. But what is pathbreaking are the big swings he made to build lasting advantages for Disney in these areas.

Generative AI – 2023

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Note – everything in this note is written by an AI. Jokes, if you find any, are mine The Tools List – Chat GPT Character.ai bard.ai Chat GPT – ChatGPT is a conversational agent based on the GPT-4 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4) architecture, developed by OpenAI. It’s designed to generate human-like text based on the input it receives, and it’s trained on a...

Marketplaces – Cart size and average order volume

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Average order volume, also known as average order value (AOV), is an important metric for e-commerce businesses, including food delivery apps like Uber Eats. Here are a few reasons why average order volume is significant: Revenue Generation: A higher average order volume directly translates to increased revenue. By encouraging customers to add more items to their order, businesses can maximize...

Sample post in product

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AI is introducing the third user-interface paradigm in computing history, shifting to a new interaction mechanism where users tell the computer what they want, not how to do it — thus reversing the locus of control. read more

Knights, I bid you welcome to your new home

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Something that I’ve never told anyone before

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You should start running right now

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Have you ever tried turning off the TV?

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You need to learn the ways of the Force

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