The Internet of Things will require a new breed of Product Manager — one who can incorporate the 5 layers of the IoT technology stack into their product
Life’s Beginning An Excerpt From The Selfish Gene , By Richard Dawkins We do not know what chemical raw materials were abundant on earth before the coming of life, but among the plausible possibilitie
Because thinking is hard. Buster Benson Sep 1, 2016 · 12 min read http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/09/16/on-research/ 2021 update : Wow, over 1.5M reads! The obsession that began with this post has
What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why. Micro
Last week, Apple launched its latest MacBook Pro laptops . They are deluxe, powerful machines with innovations including the Touch Bar, where the top row of function keys is replaced by a touch-sensit
While much of the focus of last Thursday’s Apple announcement was on the new MacBook Pros (and the Macs that were not updated), the more interesting announcement from a strategic perspective was about
O f all the bizarre facets of quantum theory, few seem stranger than those captured by Erwin Schrödinger’s famous fable about the cat that is neither alive nor
Fluid reflections on keeping a solid center. NOTE: I add to these learnings each year. Here is the most recent set, upon passing the 13-year mark. I remember my first awareness of mortality as a child
On Tuesday Apple announced its quarterly results , and then its executives spent some quality time with analysts who tried to get Tim Cook to announce unreleased products . Tale as old as time. Here a
Most people sleep about seven or eight hours a night. That leaves 16 or 17 hours awake each day. Or about 1,000 minutes. Let’s think about those 1,000 minutes
Oct 22nd 2016 NEW YORK LIKE most technology tycoons, Elon Musk exudes disdain for finance. Convertible bonds and lease accounting are problems for Wall Street, while the visionaries in California focu
Periodically you may have the need to add a large number of subtasks to user stories after they are created. One great example is adding standard subtasks to
Lauren Goode, writing for The Verge a few weeks ago, “ iMessage Is the Glue That Keeps Me Stuck to the iPhone ”: As someone who vacillates between iOS and Android fairly often,but who considers a ligh
Apple Strategy 2017. Very important change to iPhone coming. I’m inside Tim Cook’s head but I really wonder what’s going on inside Mark Zuckerberg’s head? Why do I say that? First, this is a reprint o
I n the age of online dating there are more romantic options than there are fish in the, well, you know. On the appropriately named site Plenty of Fish, for
After my link today to Greg Koenig’s excellent explanation for why the new ceramic Apple Watch Edition does not presage the use of a similar material in next year’s iPhone (in short: Apple needs to pr
It was in 2001, the same year the iPod was introduced, that Douglas Neal and John Taylor coined the phrase “Consumerization of IT”; they set down a specific definition in this 2004 position paper : Th
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português When I read a piece of business writing, whether it’s a proposal, a report, or a simple email, I’m turned off by people who have invested m
It’s a wonderful idea to try to find a set of systems and principles that “work better” for big swaths of your life. Better habits , better mental tendencies , better methods of inquiry , and so on. W
We’re constantly asked for examples of the “multiple mental models” approach in practice. Our standard response includes great books like Garrett Hardin’s Filters Against Folly and Will Durant’s The L
What if eating right wasn’t actually all that complicated? What if you read enough to see patterns develop, to realize that when you stripped away all the confusing bits that maybe the skeleton undern
About Projects w Opinion Talks August 25, 2011 If there’s one thing I’ll remember about Alex Mahernia, it’s footer spacing. Here we are at 10pm in the office and we’d be trying to launch a site. The only thing left is an A-OK from the creative director. And without fail, he’d yell at me to come into…
What is your morning routine? I try to wake up around 7:30am. That’s also when my girlfriend wakes up, so it lines us up nicely. I’ll admit, I don’t really have that much trouble waking up, but I do k
Just as doubt was beginning to surround whether or not Apple was still on track to release new MacBook Pros this month, a new report from Macotakara this evening brings some reassurance. The report cl
Apple Inc. hired a prominent artificial intelligence researcher from Carnegie Mellon University as it seeks to regain lost ground against competitors such as Google, Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc
Joi Ito, Scott Dadich, and President Barack Obama photographed in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on August 24, 2016. Photographs by Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos for WIRED IT’S HARD TO thi
It is a cliché, of course, to claim that a presidential election is the most important in living memory. But we arrived at that point in the 2016 campaign many months ago, when both sides declared the
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Books of The Times Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky Tom Wolfe Credit... Mark Seliger “If you are not having a fight with somebody,” Tom Wolfe told The Guardian in 20
Oct 8th 2016 Washington, DC WHEREVER I go these days, at home or abroad, people ask me the same question: what is happening in the American political system? How has a country that has benefited—perha
John Gruber is not impressed by the suggestion that Google’s new Pixel phone, which the company introduced at a keynote yesterday, is the first time the company has competed head-to-head with the iPho
The gravitational forces of product management You have to fight for the time to plant seeds in your head, which will germinate and grow over time Brian: If
Story highlights Barack Obama: Space program shows America's boundary-pushing curiosity. We do what's possible before anyone else He says next step is to reach for Mars: learn to build new habitats th
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