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Saeed Khan emphasizes the critical role of having a clear vision in product management. He explores the consequences of lacking a vision, how to establish one, and its relationship with objectives and strategies.
Desired outcomes is a measurable metric that is crucial for PMs. There are different methods to calculate the Opportunity Score, a key metric for identifying high-potential outcomes that emphasizes the distinction between business and product outcomes. Product teams should focus on the latter for more direct influence and alignment with customer needs.
This article explores the rapid growth of beehiiv since its 2021 launch. It discusses beehiiv's strategies, which include launching an initial MVP with just enough killer features to attract customers, building in public to fuel growth, and fostering symbiotic and trust-based relationships with users.
This article focuses on the integral role of the growth function at the junction of product, marketing, and monetization. It presents four different organizational structures for incorporating growth and analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of each option.
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Mental models shape users' expectations of a system's functioning and their interaction with its interface. Discrepancies between these models and the actual system can lead to gaps in product understanding. There are two approaches to address this: adapting the system to align with users' existing mental models, or enhancing users' mental models to better mirror the system.
Recent AI advancements aid PMs in three areas: boosting personal productivity, enhancing efficiency in information discovery, and solving new customer or technical issues. While the essence of AI PM work (solving customer problems) remains unchanged, it now demands extra skills like knowledge of machine learning architecture, deep learning, and predictive analytics. This article provides resources for those interested in transitioning to an AI PM role.
This article discusses the concept of mini-research, a method for quickly gathering actionable insights in resource-limited environments. It emphasizes the benefits of this approach, such as faster decision-making and reduced cognitive overload by focusing on essential objectives and limiting the scope. The article provides 25 mini-research ideas to help PMs get started.
Applying systems thinking to create sustainable routines can help us scale at work and in life. This article offers examples and strategies for creating systems that simplify challenging tasks.
50 groundbreaking AI companies tackling the country's most pressing problems.
Alleviate anxiety using techniques like controlled breathing and humming to positively impact thoughts. Activate the parasympathetic nervous system through deep breathing. Enhance interoception for early stress detection and proactively manage emotional debt to prevent burnout and health crises.
Use this AI prompt to visualize each step of the customer experience, from sign-up to check-out. This approach is adaptable for mapping the journey of any target customer, providing a valuable tool for understanding and enhancing user experience.
A Fletch diagram on how to set you apart in a saturated market.
All of Shreyas Doshi's public writing over the past 4 years in one place.
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Deploying changes at a large scale is not easy within Slack's monolithic service. Continuous deployment helps its team quickly respond to customer feedback, but also creates risks associated with releasing a large number of changes simultaneously. To address these challenges, Slack has implemented an automated deployment system called ReleaseBot, which uses anomaly detection and monitoring, specifically focusing on z-scores, to ensure safe and efficient deployments.
This article evaluates a few common approaches to starting a new React project with Vite, Astro, and Next.js. It explains the pros and cons, the skill level needed, and the features that each starter project offers. If you’re starting out with learning React, use Vite, as it stays the closest to React fundamentals. If you’re looking for a full-fledged framework with support for different rendering techniques, use Next.js or Remix. If you want a content-focused website, use Astro.
Often, issues with API functionality come down to not following core API design principles. Scalability, modularity, statelessness, and efficient data handling are all essential concepts to understand. This article covers these concepts and also discusses monitoring and testing APIs to ensure they hold up against different use cases and environments.
Having a personal brand can be a huge help in your career as an engineer, especially when it comes to job searching. You can develop your own personal brand by focusing on your beliefs and sharing your work and opinions with others.
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Mutative is a JavaScript library for efficient immutable updates. It’s 2-6x faster than the native handcrafted reducer and more than 10x faster than Immer. Some of Mutative's features include higher performance, optional freezing state, and support for JSON Patch.
QuickJS is a compact embeddable JavaScript engine. It supports the ES2023 specification including modules, asynchronous generators, and mathematical extensions. QuickJs is small and easy to embed, offers a fast interpreter with low startup time, and can compile JavaScript to executables without any external dependencies.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the rapid development of AI and its potential impact on the future in a recent podcast interview. Altman is excited about the progress of AI, specifically regarding advancements in multimodality, reliability, and reasoning ability. AI has the potential to transform various industries, including programming, education, and healthcare, making people more efficient and enabling them to tackle new challenges.
Mentorship is a two-way street that can be incredibly valuable for both the mentee and the mentor. A mentor's role is to provide guidance and share experiences, not to dictate the mentee's path. This article thoroughly covers the ins and outs of mentorship, explaining what it is, how to find a mentor or mentee, and how to manage a mentorship relationship. It highlights the need for open communication and established goals and expectations.
Latency number cheat sheet for things like RAM access, database inserts for Postgres, and more.
Getting laid off was once a process that most people kept quiet about, but many of today’s workers are shedding that stigma by publically opening up and sharing their layoff stories and the real emotions they felt during the process.
A basic guide for understanding how Three.js web animations work that shows you how to animate something in your browser in 5 steps.
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Google's Gemini Pro has claimed the second position in HuggingFace's Chat Bot Arena Leaderboard. Gemini Pro is Google's second-best model - Gemini Ultra's capabilities have yet to be revealed. OpenAI risks losing its lead if it fails to introduce a new model soon. Google is integrating a 'Help me Write' feature directly into Google Chrome to reduce the need for users to draft content on other AI platforms.
Apple has announced a broad, wide-ranging, and complex set of new policies regarding its intended compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). This article looks at Apple's proposed changes. Anti-big-business regulation and pro-consumer results often go hand-in-hand, but the DMA exposes issues with these types of regulations. The DMA will likely not change much for the better for iOS users in the EU. Its practical effects will likely make things worse for users.
Prophetic, a neurotechnology startup, has a new AI model called Morpheus-1 that it claims can help people enter a lucid dream state. The model takes the current brain state as a prompt and generates ultrasound holograms that can be sent to the brain to start the lucid dream state and keep it stable. Lucid dreaming is a type of dream state where the dreamer is aware they are asleep and can control the dream. Prophetic plans to release a headband product called The Halo in beta in the Spring. The device sends sound waves into the brain to connect with the current brain state and put the mind into a lucid state.
Solar panel salespeople obscuring the specific terms of financial agreements and clouding the value of their products are causing a storm in the solar panel industry. Law firms across the US are claiming to receive multiple calls every week from potential clients with stories of dodgy salespeople causing them to sign up for deals that they can't afford. Some of the nation's biggest public solar companies are struggling to stay afloat as questions arise over the viability of the financial products they sold to both customers and investors. These factors could topple the residential solar industry: more than 100 solar dealers and installers in the US declared bankruptcy in late 2023 alone.
cssfact is a lossy CSS compressor. It takes CSS and outputs other CSS that retains most of the information in the input but with fewer rules than the original. cssfact only works on style rules, leaving non-style rules unchanged. This article discusses how cssfact was built and the reasons behind creating the project.
This post presents a look at what's inside the .git directory. It covers each directory and file, with an explanation and example for each section. An image with a ~15-word explanation for each part of a .git directory is available at the beginning of the post.
This article features an interview with Simon Willison, one of the co-creators of the Django framework, where he discusses AI, software development, intellectual property, and related matters. In the discussion about intellectual property, Willison acknowledges how some activities can be legal and still be morally wrong, like how models can be trained on creators' content and then used to compete against the original creators. The issues he discusses are complex, but Willison takes the time to explain them in detail.
The dynamics of joining a friend's startup as an employee aren't widely discussed. This Hacker News thread provides many personal anecdotes of what the experience is like. While some people report positive experiences, many replies tell the story of how the decision to work at a friend's startup ultimately cost them the friendship. Working with friends may be more enjoyable, but the decision to join a startup should be based on the startup itself rather than the friendship - is the opportunity good, does it progress your career, does it pay you well, and is the equity fair?
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Apple's plan to comply with the EU's new rules will mean that independent browsers like Firefox will be forced to build and maintain two separate browser implementations.
If you want to do something, you're going to have to make time for it - that's just what life is like.
The production ramp will be challenging and not an off-the-self 'it-just-works' type of thing.
Checkboxes used to be square, and radio buttons were round - Apple's new visionOS will have round checkboxes.
Arc Search takes search queries, finds answers, and then builds pages around the answer that contain key information, related links, and other helpful data.
An Arm-native version of Chrome for Windows 11 has been spotted in the latest nightly builds of Chrome in the Canary channel - it provides a significant performance boost compared to the regular x86 version.
The enterprise data toolkit acquired Claypot's real-time AI tools and team for an undisclosed sum. Voltron aims to continue bringing access to data to the enterprise.