The Mandate Trap
8bitconcepts Research
Top-down AI mandates vs. bottom-up adoption — which actually drives results.
strategy
Buccanyar! (Switch)
Jonny
A quick disclaimer first: after I'd already bought a physical copy of this game, and then played it for a week and a half, I found out that it actually has a western release (though I don't think it has a physical version), under the title Cats Away. But the Japanese version (technically) has an...
For when the madness ends: a 5-point plan for getting conservation back on track in the US
Southern Fried Science
Let’s not mince words: the last eighteen months have been an absolute nightmare for federal ocean and conservation policy. Landmark environmental protections have been rolled back or severely hobbled, while agency budgets were slashed more than Janet Leigh when Norman Bates was in a particularly...
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
adelzaalouk
_Extracted from: beyond-llms-moats-and-lifecycle/index.md_
Systems of Record
Alex Rampell
What is a System of Record, and what makes some stickier than others? A system of record keeps track of the atomic units of a business. Calendars for resources and people (busy vs free), inventory (in stock vs not, delivery dates, costs), personnel (hours worked, vacation days, and salaries),...
Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher (Switch)
Jonny
The Monster Rancher series is one with which I'm not very familiar. I do remember, probably more than twenty years ago, spending an afternoon playing one of the GBA Monster rancher games via emulation, keeping the fast forward button held down almost constantly. Even further back, I remember...
Advice on Seeking Advice
Alex Rampell
If you try to get advice from anyone *where they lack full context* you can build support for any position imaginable. Imagine: “the hospital refused to do surgery on this patient to fix this problem? Isn’t that outrageous?” without the context of “the patient is 104 years old.” Try asking a...
The “Comma MBA” Problem and Local Maxima
Alex Rampell
The best entrepreneurs constantly “read the room” (or the market) and adjust their presentation style, their mannerisms, their product description, their team, their focus, their advisors — everything. They have the smallest number of axioms (things they accept without questioning). Everything...
It’s a Trap! Say NO to a bad integration
Alex Rampell
If you have a product that can be used in many different ways, do not let your customers’ creativity run wild. Be very prescriptive and don’t be afraid to say no to a bad integration. It can be an unrecoverable mistake. In 2006, I started TrialPay as an alternative payment system – “pay by...
A Vision for the Team: The Conclusion of my Series on Design Team Strategy
Maximilian Speicher
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #13 ⁂ Dear readers & friends, It’s been a while, and I’m sorry for that. I’ve been suffering from a mild case of writer’s block for the better part of the past year. But I’ve managed to turn things around and could finally finish my...
Leadership Strategies for Product Maturity Phases
AbdulFattaah Popoola
My skip manager was equally right and wrong She went straight to the topic: “Why do you want to leave?“, trying to dissuade me from leaving my current team. After she realized I was bent on leaving, she said, “That product has serious quality issues, so you should be careful.” Looking back, she...
A Simple AI Strategy
andrew
Artificial Intelligence (or AI) has meant different things at different times, all through my career. I started working in AI back in the 1990s, when the most prominent use of a neural network was to decode hand-written post code (zip code) digits on letters, and if an organisation was using AI,...
Design Principles, Why They’re Important, and How They Relate to Team Values
Maximilian Speicher
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #10 ⁂ Dear readers & friends, I took a little summer break, but have recently gotten back to writing articles. My latest piece “Designing together: the importance of shared principles for design teams” has been published by The UX...
Don't update promptly
Groundblue
I was reading an article about cybersecurity strategy and how some principles could be brought on table for a business to hold a stable cybersecurity posture, like having global policy with all its procedures, guidelines and baselines, maintaining a disaster recovery plan for potential...
How To: Design Team Strategy
Maximilian Speicher
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #8 ⁂ Dear readers and friends, I hope this newsletter finds you well. I’m excited to share two new articles I’ve published since the last edition and hope you’ll find them interesting and useful. Design Team Strategy I’ve started writing...
Ladders To The Moon
Your name
The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban is beginning – or rather accelerating – a process of re-alignment. Some aspects of this are normal or even healthy; change should occur after a very public and humiliating disaster. Other parts are more dubious. This brings us to Thomas Bruscino and Mitchell...
How You Can Successfully Propose Your Engineering Projects using Five Principles
Jonathan
Engineers enjoy working on cool projects. We're nerds and proud of it. It is one thing to work on a hobby project such as home automation with a Raspberry Pi single board computer (SBD) or developing custom Alexa Skills. Suppose you have an idea for a cool project where you work. How do you...
Everyone is a marketer
Heather
When you bring something you care deeply about to others, and share it with them, you're a marketer. The post Everyone is a marketer appeared first on Write Approach Marketing.
Getting Dropbox's Act Together
Larry Sukernik
I'm not sure what Dropbox has been doing since I last wrote about them almost a year ago. There have been many recent headlines of Dropbox's lowering valuation - it has even been branded a dying unicorn, but that might be a bit extreme (as tech headlines tend to be). To me, the path Dropbox should...
Goodwill and Innovation
Larry Sukernik
How can you gauge how innovate a company truly is? Is there a metric that comprehensively measures the innovative capacity of a company? It’s a loaded question, I know. There are many ways analysts look at the innovation that comes from within a company using their spreadsheets as lorgnettes, but...
A Parable of Decline
Larry Sukernik
The following is a parable which shows how a company can go from success to failure over the court of its life. It is a simplification of reality. Despite this, this story is still able to teach us a valuable lesson. Revenues are inflows of...
Well Rounded Companies
Larry Sukernik
People often mention the term well rounded to describe folks who are good at more than one thing. John is a biology wiz, but he also knows a lot about sports and plays basketball every week. John is also well educated in history, given his fascination with medieval Europe. We are all familiar with...