Author: Andreas
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Feldweg
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Moderne Verkehrsregelung
Während in Berlin ein Wagen voll Handies virtuelle Staus verursacht, dürfen Autofahrer in Mumbai länger an der Ampel stehen, je lauter sie hupen.
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Spring is coming
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DIY Hardware Bitcoin Workshop
Fiat Money DIY Hardware Bitcoin Workshop: Later this afternoon, Kim Neunert together with Stepan Snigirev of Cryptoadvance Inc. gave a workshop. Topic was to introduce the audience to building a DIY Bitcoin Hardware Wallet. In particular, the hands on workshop had a goal for the interested to get a DIY platform to work and create transactions of the crypto-currency. The hardware platform is based on an STM Micro based development board, the STM32F469I-DISCO. The hardware is capable of running MicroPython, making it a convenient environment to develop new application. Specs for the device include a ARM® Cortex®-M4 32 bit processor, 4M of SDRAM. Essential to make it a usable device is the four inches 800×480 touch display. On board USB connectivity serves development purposes.
Throughout the DIY Hardware Bitcoin Workshop, participants had the opportunity to work with Cryptoadvance’s “Spectre” software. The software comes in two flavours: one in shape of a firmware for the device. The other comes in form of a desktop application, that’s wrapping bitcoind.
After successful installation, these two instances were be leveraged to create transactions from and to the air-gapped device. Verifying actual transactions is done through the devices display and an additional QR-Scanner attached to the development board.
Bitcoin still is a technology intensive topic, that I personally found difficult to follow, in particular because most dependencies failed to work during the workshop. Nevertheless, it’s just the beginning and the technology is offering plenty of interesting use-cases that are worth investigating.
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Man vs. Machine Coffee
Da wäre mehr Kontrast drin gewesen. Man vs. Machine Coffee, Müllerstr. München. X100F.
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Product Management Predictions
Product Management Predictions: With January already over, it’s a bit late for annual forecasts. But then again, looking into the future is a secret superpower every Product Manager should look to develop. Therefore, it’s never too late to have an understanding of what comes up next. Mason Adair of Digital Product People did so for the profession itself.
Ten Wild Predictions, One True Story and some Solid Career Advice
From the articleJust like the industry is changing. And the article makes an effort to put into relation the different aspects Product Management has. Mason starts his thoughts by looking into public available metrics that indicate the importance and projected relevance related to management of products. In this analysis, related topics range from Agile, Minimum Viable Product, Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Product Market Fit, Rice Prioritisation and Net Promoter Score all the way to Jira, Trello and Asana. With an analysis of how relevance for these topics changed over time, the article goes into setting the scenes for professional trends that influenced the past years. These include economic environment, the introduction of new technology, a demographic shift, increasing societal fragmentation and climatic change.
Product Management Predictions shape the conclusion in his article: 10 wild predictions I believe are not that wild. The top most prediction, Product arriving at the C-Level, is almost no prediction anymore. Digital companies already have recognised the importance to actively influence direction towards customers.
Read more: The Future of Product Management in the 2020s – Mason Adair – Medium
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Off Facebook Activity
Off Facebook Activity is a tool, that let’s Facebook users see which sites they used outside of Facebook. The tool is as creepy as you would think it would be. Facebook, through it’s like buttons and other embeds, has sheer unlimited insight into personal browsing behaviour.
Facebook Company Logo / Wordmark In an attempt by the company to create more transparency, it discloses how much curiosity in a negative sense is driving the social network in trying to understand their audience. And actually sell this gained knowledge to their customers.
The release of Off Facebook Activity a reminder we are living in an increasingly connected world that is watching us. There is entirely no point for any company to collect this type of data outsire of making us a product.
The Washington Post writes about how creepy and scary this feature is, and even more important, how to work with privacy settings. While the article deals with Facebook internal settings alone, the amout of data transferred to Facebook won’t stop. At this point, you may want to consider personal privacy tools like uMatrix (for Firefox or Chrome). Or, to leverage protection for the entire network, e.g. for your family, Pi-Hole is worth taking a look, too.
via: Washington Post
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Product First Step Feedback
Product First Step Feedback: Having worked in customer facing roles most of my career, I have experienced first hand how important it is for clients to get quick impressions of a product. Opportunities to leave that impression are often limited.
The other night, a colleague argued most products don’t even need a UI. And a UI won’t even be necessary for products that aim at developers as their audience. It may be unnecessary for specific, complex products. And in general, I won’t disagree. Such products exist and still require a good first impression. Browsing open source directories at Github, popular projects come with good documentation. A readme.md that comes with building and running instruction.
GitHub In the IaaS/PaaS/SaaS world, popular tools come with first step tutorials. Quick tours to get potential users started in minutes. Google apparently made this a release requirement, since virtually all products ship with a “Get Started in 5 Minutes” section to start with.
When I came into the product management role, I was a strong proponent of UI driven products. In hindsight, this believe was driven by the pure marketing thought of it. A UI shows better at trade fair booths than a terminal.
With more technical products, the readme is the last resort. And with that, an opportunity to gather feedback is gone. The UI can implement tracking and analysis to build a feedback channel for Product Managers to understand how the new feature actually is perceived.
In the software, provided it is delivered in source, the first step that could possible send telemetry, is the build process. And to drive adoption, you have to offer the customer a good first impression in documentation, before he can build your component. Should the documentation not deliver on this first step, you lost a customer even before he saw the product. If you are in the situation to receive feedback on this first impression, take that very serious.
