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Itamar Gilad: Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management? The product-sphere is boiling-over over an interview with Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of AirBnB, in which he said that the company no longer has a product management function - PM has been merged with product-marketing-management (PMM). (more)

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Charity Majors: “Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking. Earlier this year I started writing a piece on why “hire great people and get out of their way” is such terrible, dangerous, counterproductive advice to give anyone in a leadership role. Then Paul Graham dropped his famous essay on “founder mode”, inspired by a talk given at a YC event by Brian Chesky. (more)

New Obesity Definition Shifts Focus From BMI. But the risk to health and wellbeing is not determined by weight – and therefore BMI – alone. We've been part of a global collaboration that has spent the past two years discussing how this should change. Today we publish how we think obesity should be defined and why. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #91: Deep Thinking. Did DeepSeek effectively release an o1-preview clone within nine weeks?The benchmarks largely say yes. Certainly it is an actual attempt at a similar style of product, and is if anything more capable of solving AIME questions, and the way it shows its Chain of Thought is super cool. Beyond that, alas, we don’t have enough reports in from people using it. So it’s still too soon to tell. If it is fully legit, the implications seems important. (more)

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley is an autobiography written by American tech entrepreneur Antonio Garcia Martinez.[1] The book likens Silicon Valley to the "Chaos Monkeys" of society. In the book, the author details his career experiences with launching a tech startup, selling it to Twitter, and working at Facebook from its pre-IPO stage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Monkeys

Chaos Monkey is a chaos engineering tool invented in 2011 by Netflix to test the resilience of its IT infrastructure.[13] It works by intentionally disabling computers in Netflix's production network to test how the remaining systems respond to the outage. Chaos Monkey is now part of a larger suite of tools called the Simian Army designed to simulate and test responses to various system failures and edge cases. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering#Chaos_Monkey (more)

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Johanna Rothman: Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1. Every day, I hear more stories of agile coaches or Scrum Masters losing their jobs. (more)

Taylor Pearson on Ergodicity. (see also this) (more)

Ludicorp was a company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that created Flickr and Game Neverending.[1][2][3] It was founded in 2002 by Stewart Butterfield, Caterina Fake and Jason Classon and was bought by Yahoo! on March 20, 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicorp

Photo Social Software site/service http://www.flickr.com Flickr (/ˈflɪkər/ FLI-kər; pronunciationⓘ) is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was previously a common way for amateur and professional photographers to host high-resolution photos.[4][5] It has changed ownership several times and has been owned by SmugMug since April 20, 2018. (more)

a statistical process control chart (graph) - see (2023-02-06) Chin How To Become Data Driven; XmR-it is a free tool to use instead of spreadsheet: https://xmrit.com/ (more)

Daniel Schmidt: Input metrics are so hard that most product teams give up. Teams can’t usually launch a product or marketing update and immediately see the business impact. They need input metrics to measure the results of their efforts. (more)

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Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28, 1969)[2] is an American technology executive, philanthropist, and writer. Sandberg served as chief operating officer (COO) of Meta Platforms, a position from which she stepped down in August 2022.[3] She is also the founder of LeanIn.Org.[4] In 2008, she was made COO at Facebook, becoming the company's second-highest-ranking official.[5] In June 2012, she was elected to Facebook's board of directors,[6] becoming the first woman to serve on its board. As head of the company's advertising business, Sandberg was credited for making the company profitable.[5] Prior to joining Facebook as its COO, Sandberg was vice president of global online sales and operations at Google and was involved in its philanthropic arm Google.org. Before that, Sandberg served as research assistant to Larry Summers at the World Bank, and subsequently as his chief of staff when he was Bill Clinton's United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 2012, she was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the most influential people in the world.[7] On Forbes Magazine's 2021 billionaires list, Sandberg is reported to have a net worth of US$1.7 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and in other companies.[8] In 2022, she announced she would be stepping down as Meta COO in the fall but that she would remain on its board.[9] In January 2024, she announced that she would not stand for re-election on the board in May 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg

high agency - a personality trait (more)

Eric Ries (newsletter email, no link): What is the purpose of a company? A lot of discussions about corporate purpose are very, for lack of a better word, highfalutin'. (more)

It seems like Gmail is Blocking Some FluxGarden Registration Emails - got a few bounces today with (more)