Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor, discusses her framework in this podcast, covering topics such as distinguishing radical candor from obnoxious aggression, tactical advice on constructive feedback, the pitfalls of well-meaning empathy, and the significance of regular career conversations, debunking the false dichotomy of a good leader versus a kind person, and offering a preview of her upcoming book, Radical Respect.
Growth product design is not the same as growth hacking. This article outlines 5 principles of product-led growth to unlock value: start with data, fail to learn and iterate, use cognitive psychology in design explorations, optimize for velocity and learning, and have shared accountability.
Product-led and sales-led growth strategies can coexist effectively, as demonstrated by platforms like Asana and Slack. Effective product marketing is vital for awareness in product-led models. Feedback styles differ between approaches, affecting product messaging. Moreover, a well-designed homepage is crucial for user engagement and conversion rates in product-led models.
This piece emphasizes the importance of a common-sense approach to product strategy, roadmap, and prioritization, introducing the GL(c) model: Goal (G), Levers (L), and Contribution (c). The model aims to provide clarity in product management, helping prioritize features based on their direct impact on defined goals and fostering strategic conversations across the organization.
This article discusses the critical need for product managers to align purpose with business value, with a case study on TOMS, which faced challenges due to a lack of synergy between its social mission and business value. The key takeaway is to create product roadmaps that cohesively reflect the product's purpose and value, ensuring long-term success and balancing social missions with profitability.
The "Cold Burger" feedback loop underscores the importance of consistently seeking feedback and taking action on it. From customer experience to product innovation, feedback is the superpower that fuels growth.
2023.12.12·
productplusbyjennifer.substack.com·2 min read·TLDR Product
Product managers face six key risks: technical understanding risk, impacting feasibility due to complex or unviable features; business acumen risk, affecting product revenue and market positioning; design insight risk, leading to poor user adoption; leadership and influence risk, challenging team morale and product vision; project management expertise risk, causing project failures due to accountability issues; and personal development risk, hindering adaptability and career progression.
Ambiguity feels comfortable because it gives us a way out rather than risking the possibility of getting turned down. However, it can prevent us from taking control of our own journeys. Getting to clarity by making your desires known is the only way to eliminate ambiguity and put yourself on the path to success.
This article discusses the need to capture tablet screen gestures and transmit them to a browser for local actions. To do these actions, the author initially considered using WebSockets for message exchange due to their suitability for handling streams of messages. However, WebSockets were hard to test and debug, so the author eventually moved towards developing with HTTP streaming. HTTP streaming is a method that Airbnb uses to improve its web performance too.
The HTML input element can be assigned 1 of 22 attributes, all of which have different behaviors and purposes. This article covers some of the lesser-known input attributes like inputmode, capture, and more. It describes when and why you should use each of them for the best user experience.
While AI can generate code, it often produces mediocre results and its reliability varies. For no-code entrepreneurs, AI can be enticing but may hide underlying issues. Junior developers may benefit from AI tools by learning and improving their skills. Senior engineers can use AI to speed up coding tasks but should not sacrifice code quality for velocity. Each type of programmer is given tips throughout the article to utilize AI effectively as a tool.
This article proposes the idea of using custom attributes, such as "message," to extend the behavior of HTML elements like buttons. By adding custom attributes to HTML elements, you can define their behavior and functionality directly in the HTML markup, making the code more readable and maintainable.
2023.12.12·
unplannedobsolescence.com·11 min read·TLDR Web Dev
BricksLLM is a cloud-native AI gateway written in Go. It lets developers create OpenAI API keys that have rate limits, cost limits, and TTLs. These API keys can be used in both production and development since they have fine-grained access control.
This article introduces a three-part framework for understanding and explaining generative LLMs. The first part covers decoder-only transformer architecture, a deep neural network architecture used for language tasks. The second part covers language model pretraining, where these models are pretrained on large textual datasets using self-supervised learning. The last part is the alignment process, which makes LLMs more useful and aligned with human intent through supervised finetuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
The concept of undo and redo operations in text editors needs innovation in how they work. Using a graph-based data structure to store undo/redo information allows for a more flexible and intuitive way to navigate and visualize the editing history. Incorporating diffing will show the changes between different editing states, making it easier for users to understand the impact of undo/redo actions.
A Hacker News commenter asks if React Native is still used in the industry. Commenters respond with their thoughts, most of whom say yes. However, there are a fair amount of people who also believe native development is a better dev experience.
Thoughts on motivation from a director who was genuinely surprised to find a team that remained motivated and in order even when their manager left. The team was used as an example to demonstrate the major components of motivation (autonomy, mastery, purpose). This post outlines tools you can use to build an energizing workspace.
There are many tools for running unit tests in Angular, and Vitest is a new addition. Vitest is built on top of Vite and offers a host of features including snapshot testing, Typescript support, and more. This article explains how to quickly integrate Vitest with Angular and includes code samples that will help you easily replicate the steps.
Traditional QA solutions take years to scale, and high test coverage is never guaranteed. Consider QA Wolf [5] - a new approach to getting 80% test coverage in just 4 months. They’ll build and maintain your test suite in Playwright (no vendor lock-in, you own the code) + include unlimited parallel test runs on their infrastructure. And they guarantee zero flakes [5].
Beeper Mini, an app that brought iMessage to Android, recently experienced an outage. It appeared that Apple found a way to make the app stop functioning. The service is now back online. Apple claims that the app poses significant risks to user security and privacy. Beeper claims that its service increases iPhone security as without it, texts would be sent to Android devices unencrypted.
OpenAI's Q* model can reportedly perform math on the level of grade-school students. While Q* might not be the crucial breakthrough that will lead to artificial general intelligence, it might be an important step towards an AI with general reasoning abilities. This article takes a look at the area of AI math research and explains why step-by-step reasoning techniques designed for math problems could have much broader applications. Building a general reasoning engine will require a way for language models to learn new abstractions that go beyond their training data and have these evolving abstractions influence the model's choices as it explores the space of possible solutions.
Transparent wood could soon find uses as super-strong screens for smartphones, glowing light fixtures, and structural features like color-changing windows. The material outperforms plastic and glass in tests measuring how easily materials fracture or break under pressure. It is a far better insulator than glass, so windows made out of the material could help buildings retain heat or keep it out. For now, transparent wood still has a higher environmental impact than glass, but scaling up manufacturing and embracing greener production schemes could help make it more sustainable.
The FDA has approved two gene therapies for treating sickle cell disease. These treatments have been shown to be highly effective at preventing vaso-occlusive events and crises. One of the treatments, the first CRISPR/Cas9 therapy approved in the US, turns on the production of fetal hemoglobin to replace deformed red blood cells. The other therapy uses a Lentiviral vector to insert the genetic code for a modified type of hemoglobin designed to be anti-sickling.
This article demonstrates how to serve videos using some of the features used for serving content based on user preferences and accessibility features. It presents alternate versions of a video for assorted media queries. Each example embeds the video with its alternate version, shows the HTML code used, and provides the alternate version alone. The examples are designed so developers can compare and confirm whether changes made to their browsers, systems, or within dev tools were successful.
FrankenPHP is a modern PHP application server that can create a production-grade PHP server with just one command. It has native support for Symphony, Laravel, WordPress, and more. Most popular PHP extensions should work with FrankenPHP.
Investors and startup founders flocked to Austin during the COVID-19 pandemic due to its lower cost of living, hip lifestyle, and business-friendly environment. Some are now leaving or looking to leave the city. The weather and economy were not as favorable as they'd expected. This article looks at a few of the companies that are leaving and the reasons why.
Git already does everything, and abstracting away the complexity of the UI will only abstract away its power - any effort put into seeking or building an alternative should just be spent on becoming a Git expert.
The video (available in the article) shows the first-stage Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft blasting skyward, close-ups of the stage separation, the explosive endings for both the booster and spacecraft, and behind-the-scenes footage of mission operators and Elon Musk watching the mission unfold.
AI/ML, research, and development teams are blocked by a solitary point of failure—lack of fast access to high-quality data [5]. When data is unavailable, of low quality, or contains sensitive information, developers can’t use it to build. The result: data doesn’t reach the teams who need it most — and innovation suffers. Gretel [5] provides the end-to-end tools for generating, evaluating, and operationalizing synthetic data for diverse enterprise use cases. Download the solution brief [5] to learn how Gretel and synthetic data can solve the data bottleneck for your dev team [5].
The 8-month-old AI group is set to raise $400m+ in a new round. It also released an 8x7B Mixture of Experts model which is currently being evaluated by the community.
Google's DeepMind has released AlphaCode 2, an improved code-generating AI model that outperforms 85% of human competitors in programming contests, showcasing advanced capabilities in solving complex mathematical and theoretical computer science problems.
StableLM Zephyr 3B, a new 3 billion parameter chat model, is being released as an extension of the StableLM 3B-4e1t model, drawing inspiration from the Zephyr 7B model. It is designed for efficient text generation, particularly in instruction following and Q&A contexts, and has been fine-tuned on multiple datasets using the Direct Preference Optimization algorithm.
Most alignment frameworks require ranked preference data (A is preferred to B). This is usually expensive and rare. This new framework only requires an independent yes or no rating per data point.
Transformer models have dominated the AI landscape recently. They are powerful sequence learners but have some drawbacks. This new work, which builds on state space models, shows that new architectures can bring great benefits like increased context length.
RAVE is a video editing method that uses existing text-to-image diffusion models to enhance videos. This approach allows for high-quality video edits while maintaining the original movement and structure.
With open models becoming useful for many enterprise tasks, people are starting to explore deployment optimizations. However, the landscape is complex and scattered. This post is a nice deep dive into many of the standard techniques used to speed up language model serving.