bullish on the PM role quietly becoming the most important role in tech again
when anyone can build, the person who decides WHAT to build becomes the bottleneck
Just as you would cook a breakfast with love for your children, so would a true creator make products that convey care, attention, and a last mile dedication to quality.
If you care, the customer can feel it, and those are the products that reach product market fit.
#NEW: Meta Platforms Inc. — parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — announced plans to build a new Canadian engineering hub located in Toronto Tuesday afternoon, resulting in the creation of 2,500 jobs.
https://t.co/tf8ZXovslu
One of the biggest mistakes I see social app founders make, which I've been guilty of, is obsessing over aesthetic design... especially before you have product-market fit. It seems to be a symptom of designing for other designers/designing with ego rather than for regular people.
Great read on Tesla UX. This is why I’m so passionate about Design and UX. Beautiful and usable products seem obvious to the end user - but creating that ‘obvious’ feeling requires getting the balance and tradeoffs right. That’s hard to achieve, but it’s also what makes it fun.
2021 has been a record-breaking year for the Canadian #technology ecosystem 🚀🚀🚀
Read our latest blog where we share investment highlights from different regions across Canada and the key trends we saw throughout 2021.
https://t.co/VoBmDTvQ9w
#CanTech#innovation#tech
When Ian Munro joined Waterloo in 1971, he was the youngest computer scientist in the department. This fall he celebrated five decades at the University of Waterloo!
Learn more about Waterloo legend and Canada’s authority on data structures: https://t.co/KeuPovHTRF
Announcing @Meta — the Facebook company’s new name. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we’ll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection.
Game 1: Optimize for company outcome. Spend all of your time finding and fixing the highest leverage problems you can
Game 2: Optimize for career outcome. Seek external signals like title, scope, and team size. Make sure you're "learning the right things"
Introducing MetaHumans—the next-generation of digital humans. #UE4
Animation and mocap-ready, #MetaHumans will be created by you, using the new easy-to-use MetaHuman Creator.
Get a sneak peak at this groundbreaking new tool:
https://t.co/oF9yUcNByn
There's been a ton of speculation of what Silicon Valley is going to look like after the pandemic when companies return to work. I've been interested in this for several years and I thought I'd add data to the conversation based on our founder surveys: https://t.co/CaZr98VzCC