Hey there! In my latest blog post, I delve into a variety of topics that you won’t want to miss. From a soon-to-be visible nova explosion and unit testing HTML templates to insights on managing remote teams and the secrets of productive people. I also explore Microsoft’s hardware innovations, strategies for publishers, and the importance of customer feedback. Dive in and enjoy!
- Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now: Sometime between May and September, a white dwarf is expected to go thermonuclear.
- Test-Driving HTML Templates: Unit testing HTML templates
- Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of wh…
- My Quad-Motor Go-Kart Broke Under Full Power:
- Etch-A-Sketch Camera Is Open Source: The Etch-a-Sketch was a great toy if you were somehow born with the talent to use it. For the rest of us, it was a frustrating red brick filled with weird grey sand. [Every Flavor of Robot] has taken the irritating knob-encrusted oblong and turned it into something we can all enjoy, however, by building an Etch-a-Sketch camera!
- Windows Returns: Microsoft has both made and fostered hardware that feels meaningfully differentiated from other devices on the market. It is, in many respects, the physical manifestation of CEO Satya Nadella’s greatest triumph.
- Defining Negative Space in Story: When you manipulate spaces in between with intention, your readers will stay intrigued by emotion, mystery, and ambiguity.
- Publisher strategies: Condé Nast, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Guardian and The Independent on key revenue trends: Digiday recently spoke with executives at Condé Nast, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Guardian and The Independent about their current revenue strategies for our two-part series on how publishers are optimizing revenue streams. In this second installment, we highlight their thoughts on affiliate commerce, diversification of revenue streams and global business expansion.
- The Difficulties and Opportunities of Managing a Remote Team: Managing a remote team might bring new problems, but by addressing these effectively, business leaders can take advantage of the myriad opportunities remote work has to offer.
- 27 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said the Best Employees Focus on Content, Not Process. Research Shows He Was Right: According to the Apple co-founder, the best employees are also a pain in the butt to manage.
- In Defense of the Unoptimized Life:
- Beware the Mid-Career Crisis for Programmers: The Four Major Causes:
- The simple secret of productive people:
- Enhancing Human Cognition with Cocoa Flavonoids:
- Promptframes: Evolving the Wireframe for the Age of AI: Promptframes enhance wireframes with prompt writing and generative AI, boosting content fidelity and speeding up user testing. No more lorem ipsum.
- 21 tips for acing the World Series of Poker: Hereâs what Iâve learned after many long hours at the WSOP.
- Making a Good Bet: Building Products with Incomplete Information: Do we really need evidence, or can we YOLO our way to success?
- Fundamentals: A long time ago, I landed my dream job. My new employer was a consulting company, and my role was to be the resident Azure expert. Cloud computing was still in its infancy, and there was a good chance that I might be able to establish myself as a leading regional authority on the topic.
- Taking Risk: I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities; Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College. Along with UCL, these British universities represent 4 of…
- Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air: Microsoft might be finally ready to transition to Arm chips.
- Why is the Voice of the Customer Crucial for Your Business: Nowadays, businesses that truly listen to their customers have a distinct advantage. Therefore, the Voice of the Customer (VoC) is more…