Noah Madden Mar 2, 2018 · 15 min read I often refer to him as Yoda. Naval Ravikant has long been one of my favorite thinkers, and has helped to shape the way

Play September means a lot of things. The muggy New York summer is winding down. Watchmakers are coming back from their summer holidays. And it's new Apple

Apple Watch Series 5 review roundup: Always-on display worth the upgrade, battery life lives up to claim https://t.co/ivhT2i2HwP by @apollozac https://t.co/r2SYp65z25

Deciding when to ship a new product is a balancing act. Ship too early and you’ll get off to a rocky start you might never recover from. (E.g. the Newton and the whole “ Eat up Martha ” / “ Egg Freckles ” handwriting recognition debacle.) Wait too long, though, and the world will pass you by. The…

A few weeks ago on my podcast , speculating on the tentpole features for this year’s new iPhones, I said that “iCamera” would be a far more apt name than “iPhone”. MG Siegler, writing about Apple’s event last week, had the same thought : The iPhone is now officially a camera. I mean, it has been…

Hiring is the lifeblood of a technology company. Software has relatively little overhead, making great people one of the most important assets to the business. Particularly when scaling, bringing the right staff into an organization is a critical task. We’ve learned a lot over the years about hiring…

Thank you for taking a chance on this newsletter. As you may have noticed it’s been relatively dormant for the past few months 😬 It’s time to change that — with a little experiment. Thanks to some of my previous writing (and tweeting), I get a lot of great inbound questions centering around driving…

What Is a Capitalization Table? A capitalization table is a spreadsheet or table that shows the equity capitalization for a company. A capitalization table is

Renters Insurance About Jetty Member Benefits For Partners Sign In Get Quote Shield Notes Insurance Insurance Rental Life Renters Insurance Basics The different

What is condo (HO6) insurance? Condo (HO6) insurance is a type of property and casualty insurance . It protects condo owners from bad things that may happen to

Apple likes talking about the awesome chips it designs for its iPhones, but it hates even hinting at products it hasn’t yet announced. The new U1 chip—introduced with the iPhone 11 but never mentioned on stage at Tuesday’s iPhone event—strikes at the heart of this conflict. Embedded in the U1 is new…

Analysis: ~51% of capital invested into US VC-funded companies exiting over the last decade lost money, while less than 4% generated a 10x or greater return (@coatsdavid / VC by the Numbers) https://t.co/uY2GqTLJUf https://t.co/tkoV6vl0Lk

Free Will and the Brain https://t.co/Fhaaw4gCWe

With iOS and iPadOS 13 right around the corner, I thought now would be a good time to share the latest news regarding our plans for 2019. We hope you'll enjoy Dark Mode, multiple windows, more flexibility in where you keep your documents, and more! https://t.co/gPI9UtYrp5

Apple Arcade $5 per month is what had been rumored , and to me feels like a fantastic deal for users, especially considering that it includes family sharing. A

The iPhone and Apple's Services Strategy https://t.co/HYjw7QloIJ Apple's annual iPhone event may have marked Apple's true shift into being a Services company

Welcome to our Age of Product Excellence series — a deep exploration of the Product Excellence Methodology, the product leaders who practice it, and the

Increment: How do you explain what you do? Ezeonyebuchi: It’s really hard! Essentially, I figure out what’s not working well with software and how we can

[Andrew: A few weeks ago, the folks at Kahuna released some great data showing that up to 60% of users opt-out of push notifications . Now they’re releasing

Alibaba Group has acquired NetEase Kaola for $2 billion, the two companies said today , and will integrate it into Tmall, creating the largest cross-border e-commerce platform in China. The announcement follows weeks of media reports about a potential deal, which was said to have stalled in the…

It’s 2012 and our team has just joined Airbnb. We’re tasked with building out a “social travel” experience for Airbnb travelers. The thinking is that travelers

Pre-Stuff: 1) We made a big fun clickable table of contents for this post. This is the third post in the series. If you’re new to the series, start here . 2)

At first glance, WeWork and Peloton, which both released their S-1s in recent weeks, don’t have much in common: one company rents empty buildings and converts it into office space, and the other sells home fitness equipment and streaming classes. Both, though, have prompted the same question: is…

Exponent - PM/Data Science Mock Interview: Airbnb Recommendations Exponent Blog CoursePricingLogout ← Back to the course list PM/Data Science Mock Interview: Airbnb Recommendations Lesson 21 Lesson A sample answer to the following product management / data science question. "How would you improve…

The question Brainstorm 5 different ways you could design a Roomba to avoid harmful collisions. A roomba is an autonomous robot that vacuums the floor. Hints This question falls into a general category of “brainstorm” questions that can be asked during PM interviews. The purpose of this interview…

The question Come up with five different ways that a rice cooker could prevent rice from overcooking. For those who don’t know, you cook rice in a pot by boiling hot water + rice in a 2:1 ratio, and then let it simmer until the rice is done cooking. Hints This question falls into a general category…

The question You’re the PM of YouTube’s Analytics. What would you pick as the three key metrics, and why? As with many PM questions, this one doesn’t have a single answer. Give a reasonable answer and defend your perspective. Hints What are the goals of YouTube as a company? There's no right answer!…

Learn the differences between a database and data warehouse - applications, data optimization, data structure, analysis, concurrent users and use cases. What is a Data Warehouse? A data warehouse is a system that pulls together data from many different sources within an organization for reporting…

v0.33.0 / Users-Guide / 02 Database Basics A Short Overview of Databases Before you jump into working with Metabase, it’s helpful to know a few key database

Here at productboard, we use product briefs to articulate a vision and a plan for a product we’re developing. It outlines why we’re building that particular

Written by: on July 18, 2013. Last revised on June 12, 2017. Writing in the Inverted Pyramid style has so many benefits for your readers, that everyone who

Reading Time: 5 minutes Writing Product Requirements Documents is a critical skill for a Product Manager. These documents are useful for aligning the

Introduction In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps , or software-as-a-service . The twelve-factor app is a methodology

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Note: This is the second post in the series. The first one is here . There is a great deal of human nature in people. – Mark Twain The animal world is a

Communication in the digital age has plenty of strange trappings. Periods can seem aggressive; complete, punctuated sentences can read as uptight. And then there's the strange space that's seemed to pop up, more and more, between the last word of a sentence and its end mark. You probably know…

This is society. Now let’s zoom in on the left arm. Further. Okay see those skin flaps on the elbow? Let’s zoom in on the bottom one. Little more. There! See me? Come closer. Hi. I’m Tim. I’m a single cell in society’s body. U.S. society, to be specific. So let me explain why we’re here. As a writer…

Privacy Fundamentalism https://t.co/lqFfL2yCgz The current privacy debate is making things worse by not considering trade-offs, the inherent nature of digital, or the far bigger problems that come with digitizing the offline world.

This post is part of a larger attempt to share my personal “systems” that help me organize my life. I’m no expert, but by sharing my system, I hope to get

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