Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics are timeless: their main strength is in demonstrating how to reason about physics. You may not know all the lectures are completely online:
Volume 1: https://t.co/yDpyRViG61
Volume 2: https://t.co/oEctaDhy2X
Volume 3: https://t.co/eXS03nu9fE
The potato paradox is a mathematical calculation that has a counter-intuitive result.
"You have 100kg of potatoes, which are 99% water by weight. You let them dehydrate until they're 98% water. How much do they weigh now?"
The surprising answer is 50kg
https://t.co/ForrM8HPxT
Left: how humans see starlings.
Right: how starlings may see each other - with bolder markings and more colour
The amazing world of UV vision, seen through the eyes of…. birds.
[read more: https://t.co/2SH6NS2DP3]
What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key.
Supermassive black holes have come to the fore as engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of the Milky Way and its central hole don’t yet hang together.
https://t.co/6fjqCLquZ0
If you’re a non-technical startup founder or product manager, you’ll want to check this out!
We released a database of common tech terms like API or data warehouse, explained quickly and simply.
You may never have heard of the plant Brassica Oleracea, but six vegetables you can find in any grocery store and you eat on a regular basis are actually all from this one plant and they're all human made products of selective breeding [source, read more: https://t.co/S3UfriIDbv]
@BDStanley a clear line of best fit here - as countries become alphabetized toward the end of the alphabet they tend to import less Russia gas
. . . unless importing more Russian gas is actually leading countries to adopt earlier first letters
A company / org / team’s power dynamics, specifically the default influence of Product Management, provides the foundation for how PMs & PM leaders can work effectively with other functions (Design / Eng / Analytics / Sales / etc.)
A thread & framework to better understand this:
I was the PM on point for the launch of the original @AmazonKindle Fire tablet a decade ago, and today I want to share one of the many war stories I collected from that experience
a 🧵on how Amazon leverages compound interest in decision making
Renting a movie tonight: Apple requires you to enter password on the TV to pay (and my husband’s password was 30 characters) so we rented on Amazon which required no password. If you don’t pay attention to your checkout & auth flows you’re missing out on $$$
Your periodic reminder of a much better way to assess Product Manager performance than the status quo at 95% of the companies out there 👇🏾
Doc:
https://t.co/7Gctycj14J