The Verge Says: Why Apple and other tech companies are fighting to keep devices hard to repair A new report says the tech industry is using its outsized influence to combat environmental product standards This is bullshit. Yes it’s true companies could make easier to repair (fatter, less waterproof) phones, but people don’t want to… Read more »
Peta Pixel just announced that Ricoh (makers of Pentax cameras) is considering getting out of the personal camera business completely… which is interesting, but what’s more interesting to me is this chart they shared in the article. We’re talking about a 50-year old growth industry that disappeared in 6 years, and it’s replacement shot well… Read more »
So how should a head of product or a CEO represent this fluidity to their team, their board, and their investors who also inevitably want to have some degree of understanding about the long term plan? The key is to get away from a roadmap that assigns feature delivery dates and to move to one… Read more »
As a business owner your words have weight. If you’re too pushy your words get over-analyzed. If you’re too passive, there’s confusion and stress. – Curio Nataloni, Italian craftsman and internationally recognized Kitchen and Bath designer.
Louise Campbell wrote a great article titled “How I Landed My First 5-Figure UX Design Contract“, but it really could be “how to get a job”. Steps are simple: Find where you want to work (limit yourself to people who can pay you fairly) Use technology to stalk them. When they’re ready, jump on the… Read more »
… what often gets lost in [conversations about entrepreneurship] is that the most common shared trait among entrepreneurs is access to financial capital—family money, an inheritance, or a pedigree and connections that allow for access to financial stability. While it seems that entrepreneurs tend to have an admirable penchant for risk, it’s usually that access to… Read more »
If you’re the sort of person who resists planning, it’s probably holding you back… [Smart people] can get away with not planning for much longer than most… But as time demands increase — you get a new job, you’re short staffed, you get married or have kids, or your health changes — a life without planning or… Read more »
Ann Latham has been on a roll lately at Forbes “Follow your passion!” We’ve all heard that advice. And while it sounds like nirvana, beware! The tasks you love can destroy your productivity. To me, your talents and passions are revealed by the things you can’t not do. The activities that perk you up no matter how tired you are. The… Read more »
Jeff Rutherford shared these with me: Every Friday, our team comes together for a weekly reflections meeting. It’s our “touchy-feely-kumbaya” moment where everyone has an opportunity to open up and share what’s on their mind. Primarily, we try to focus on three things: what went well, what didn’t go so well, and what we learned…. Read more »
First off. Discrimination happens. It happens in tech as well as other fields (#GamerGate for example). And it sucks. Here’s some fascinating data from Harvard economist Dr. Claudia Goldin about the gender gap in various fields: GOLDIN: By and large, it appears that there’s just a very high cost of temporal flexibility in certain occupations…. Read more »