reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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A standalone novel in the fantastic world of Katherine Addison's award-winning The Goblin Emperor.
When young half-goblin emperor Maia sought …
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The internet may be digital, but it carries a very physical cost. From image files …
...In the 1950s.... the American Can Company, Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Coca-Cola, and the Dixie Cup company got together to design a solution to the growing pressure to regulate disposable packaging. They knew the issue of litter would not go away and was increasingly unpopular with the public, but disposable packaging was incredibly profitable. They needed a way to avoid regulation that might limit the use of disposables, and their solution was cunning.
They founded a nonprofit called Keep America Beautiful and poured significant amounts of money into environmental awareness campaigns. This helped them look good, but the real genius was in the message behind the campaigns - that litter on the streets had nothing to do with the producers, but was the fault of the person who dropped it - the litterbug. Keep America Beautiful managed to shift the entire debate around Americas garbage and litter problems away from the industry and on to consumers, and the strategy has been copied to time and time again since.
Sound familiar?
"A good UX is discoverable, gives feedback, is forgiving and is intuitive"
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence …
saw some enthusiastic review about this here on Bookwyrm servers. That might be an interesting read.
Learned a lot about product pricing strategies. Good and clear description and well known examples provided.
A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, the …
Instead of MVP, do a RAT (Riskiest Assumption Test) to validate the most risky assumption about your future product.
So far quite interesting
In my experience the book doesn’t over big revelations. You could summarize the content as: Hire smart people and let them do their job. The rest ist justifying this thesis with anecdotal evidence and some cross references to other books and other companies in the area.
Nevertheless I liked reading the book and also hearing many stories about a company like Netflix is dealing with certain things.
I would have loved if the authors elaborated more how they identify the top talents they are referring to so often. How they judge, whether their talents fail to delivery because they are not as awesome as hoped they are, or whether they are just a victim of bad circumstances?
On the last page they reveal that Netflix also has certain areas where “Freedom & Responsibility” doesn’t apply. But where Process and Rules dominate 🙄
Had an epiphany today about these kind of books: they are an example of "survivor bias"
Nevertheless a good read
Stack-ranking employees and rating systems with firing quotas is a very bad idea. It kills teamwork
