Sources: activist investor Elliott has a multibillion-dollar stake in Synopsys and plans to engage with the company to boost its software and service profits (@laurenthomas / Wall Street Journal)
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Grammarly is offering an AI-powered tool called "Expert Review" that simulates feedback from famous writers, dead and living, without their permission (@youwouldntpost / Wired)
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A thing that took me forever to learn as a PM is that the traits/kinds of activities that make you credible to your team are completely different from traits/activities that make you credible to management.
@FredrikAurdal@figmadesign Yeah! Figma drastically reduces the barrier to entry for prototyping. I’m not a UI expert but I was able to reuse our component library to make pretty good prototypes. It’s a cheat code to getting attention.
An experiment I’ve been doing recently is swapping out half my roadmap decks with @figmadesign prototypes.
The change in the energy of the meeting is instantly palpable. The same people go from eyes glazed over to engaged and inquisitive.
A demo is worth a thousand slides!
@iaboyeji First, a Blockchain is like a book which thousands of people can see. When someone writes in the book, others can trust and verify it. In this context, Bitcoin is like writing cash transactions in the book and Ethereum allows you to write software in the book and execute it.
@kingfisherontap Thanks for reminding me of this @kingfisherontap. I've evolved my thinking to include money/time/energy.
In these intervening years, I've also learned that 'Checkbook charity' is not always bad. Many amazing people running non-profits need us to donate and get out of the way.
Inspired by the restraint shown here! Feels like the product builders version of the Marshmallow experiment at play. It’s so much easier said than done when folks are clamoring to get their hands on your product.
@rishabhv07@MightyApp I promise we're all working as hard as we can. We will expand further when we know people will spend 1000 minutes per week in it vs Chrome.
We're probably 3-4 months away I think.
Everyone wants their culture to encourage growth mindsets but very few have a growth-recognition mindset.
Millennials get a bad rap for being capricious and disloyal but I think☝️ is a big reason why job-hopping is the primary vector for career growth for so many. 2/2
I’m always shocked by how quickly people in companies make snap judgements about others, categorize them and very rarely update their opinions.
First impressions matter much more than you think in the corporate world. 1/2
Epic has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Apple, with the aim of establishing the App Store as a monopoly and seeking relief to "allow fair competition" (@nickstatt / The Verge)
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Headcount inflation is the SW company equivalent of lifestyle inflation. People who grow team size never want to go back down.
Corollary: The number of useless features that don’t help anyone, magically grows to fill any new team capacity.
Presto! Feature factory created.
I personified scope creep in my head and now I can’t stop imagining a creepy guy in the corner of every planning meeting diabolically muttering “more features, more features” under his breath.
@aratisharma@Shopify India has such incredible craftsmanship and artistry in textiles that is sadly part of a dwindling trade.
My wife and I love @Shopify 🙌. It made it so easy to launch a beautiful store and focus on our mission of bringing handmade fabrics to the West.
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