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[Katelyn Bourgoin 🧠 @KateBour]

It sucks when you’ve got a new product idea and your customer research proves that your assumptions were wrong and no one really wants your product.

It sucks way more when you don’t do any research and spend months (or years) building the wrong thing.

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

I’ve had some toxic jobs. Lesson learned:

When things go bad, good people leave, eventually followed by people who thought they could change things but got buried because too many good people left. Those left are bad people or hostages.

The good people are your canary.

[DHH @dhh]

Look, open-space offices may be necessary for some companies, if they can’t afford private offices. But don’t dress up such a compromise as “good collaboration”. Just apologize to workers for subjecting them, allow remote work to escape it, and commit to Library Rules within.

[Action for Happiness @actionhappiness]

Stop the glorification of busy

[kottke.org @kottke]

OMG, here's the terrifically bad interface that set off the false missile alert in Hawaii. The operator selected "PACOM (CDW) - STATE ONLY" from a menu when he should have chosen "DRILL - PACOM (CDW) - STATE ONLY". https://t.co/ulPcLyvb57

[Andy Coravos @AndreaCoravos]

Wait. @instagram strategically *withholds* "likes" from users that they believe might disengage hoping they'll be disappointed and recheck the app?! Harvesting painful insecurities. This is so messed up. https://t.co/tXs9R1T1zK

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