What Is: Product Management
Interview with @hunterwalk, Former Director of Product at Google about product management.
Interview with @hunterwalk, Former Director of Product at Google about product management.
Persistence is self-discipline in action.
Three reasons not to build a Minimum Viable Product.
Slide deck from Reed Hastings describing the company culture at Netflix. It’s some really good advice on how to scale creative driven companies while maintaining agility.
Sometimes I actually cook. I’m also pretty decent at it.
Broccoli with fresh garlic, olive oil, Parmesan cheese and red pepper over pasta.
This is a great video on a simple thing you can do to improve your health.
via 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? - YouTube.
You can follow this Dr on Twitter @DocMikeEvans
Why isn’t the U.S. leading on this?
"If the Chinese can crack thorium," notes the Telegraph, "the world will need less oil, coal, and gas than feared. Wind turbines will vanish from our landscape. There will less risk of a global energy crunch, less risk of resource wars, and less risk of a climate tipping point."via Will Thorium Nuclear Energy Save Us All? | Mother Jones.
About three years ago, Randy Moore, a struggling screenwriter living in Burbank, had an out-there idea: What if he took a tiny camera and, without asking permission, began shooting a narrative movie at Disney theme parks?via Sundance 2013: How did a newbie make an unapproved film in Disney parks? - latimes.com.Moore had been visiting Disney World in Orlando, Fla., with his now-estranged father since he was a child, and he’d also begun taking his two children, then 1 and 3, to Disneyland. He thought that juxtaposing the all-American iconography of Mickey Mouse with a dark scripted tale would be cinematic gold, or at least deeply weird.
So with the help of an extremely small Canon camera and some very game actors and crew, the director began shooting a movie guerrilla-style.
I think I’ve found my next car. The Accord Plug-In Hybrid looks great and reportedly gets 100+ MPG.
So, I’ve been thinking about the NRAs proposal about posting armed guards in every school and also the other proposal floating around about arming teachers. I feel that if someone is putting forth a suggestion debate it rather than dismiss it outright.
That said, the one thing that keeps coming back to me is. What happens if the armed guards or the teachers are the ones that lose their shit?
Kind of reminds of the old kids story.
NRA: White House Meeting Had Nothing To Do With Keeping Our Children Safe.
No this is not an article from The Onion.
Patrick Edlinger, who has died aged 52 after falling down stairs at his home, was often described as “the God of free-climbing”. Overcoming sheer vertical rock faces and horizontal overhangs, often without safety ropes or even shoes, he was widely known in France simply as “le Blond,” and among his English-speaking fans as “the blond Adonis”.
Is this cool or creepy?
Disney in the coming months plans to begin introducing a vacation management system called MyMagic+ that will drastically change the way Disney World visitors — some 30 million people a year — do just about everything.
via At Disney Parks, a Bracelet Meant to Build Loyalty (and Sales) - NYTimes.com.
Earlier today comScore released November mobile market share numbers for the US. Android and iOS continued their gains, with Android picking up some momentum over Apple. Some version of the Android OS is now installed on 53.7 percent of US smartphones.
Meanwhile the other smartphone operating systems continued their long slow declines, including Microsoft’s. ComScore’s data suggest no traction for Windows Phones in the US, although there is some evidence of adoption in Europe and elsewhere.
via Android Has Nearly 54 Percent Mobile Market Share -- comScore.
Starting my Monday feeling 1000x better than Friday. #slayedwintercold
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” — Ken Robinson #quotes
Alton Brown showed us how to do this years ago but props to this video for demonstrating it again. Great way to make scrambled eggs!
Make Perfect, Light and Fluffy Scrambled Eggs with a Double Boiler.
I’ve mentioned a few times to a few people why I chose to post to my blog then cross post to social networks. It boils down to keeping the content I create, however inane under my control.
There is an article about this in the Telegraph which, in part, summarizes the terms and conditions for some of the top sites on the Internet.
What the terms of service say
With over a billion users, Facebook is the definitive homepage for many web users. Its terms of service, data use and cookie use policy span more than 14,000 words over eight separate pages and would take even the quickest reader more than two hours to dig through. But what rights have you handed over to Facebook?
Specifically for photos and video uploaded to the site, Facebook has a license to use your content in any way it sees fit, with a license that goes beyond merely covering the operation of the service in its current form. Facebook can transfer or sub-license its rights over a user’s content to another company or organisation if needed. Facebook’s license does not end upon the deactivation or deletion of a user’s account, content is only released from this license once all other users that have interacted with the content have also broken their ties with it (for example, a photo or video shared or tagged with a group of friends).
Fast becoming the second social network behind Facebook, Twitter’s model for monetising the service has yet to be established, a fact clearly seen in its terms of service. Twitter’s terms give it broad scope to use, change and distribute any photos, writing or video posted through Twitter’s service, to any other forms of media or distribution method it wishes, including those which Twitter has not yet thought of or developed. Similarly to Facebook, Twitter’s license also allows it to pass any of your content to any partner organisations for any reason.
Making only small waves in the field of social networking, Google+ is probably not the place where most users first agreed to Google’s terms of service. Most users probably signed up through one of Google’s many online services like Gmail, Google Maps or Google Drive. Luckily Google has a modest set of terms when it comes to user’s content, restricting its use of such content only for “the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones.”
Dropbox
The free file storage service that promises to ‘simplify your life’ takes only the smallest liberties with its user’s content and rights. Dropbox limits their use of your data “solely to provide the services… no matter how the services change, we won’t share your content with others…” These permissions do extend to allowing Dropbox to share user’s data with “trusted third parties” but again, only in order to provide their existing services.
“We are what we do repeatedly” - Aristotle
I’m starting 2013 with a pretty big reading list.
Platforms and Networks: Managing Startups: Best Posts of 2012.
Lovely. Looks like I am starting 2013 with a head cold.
