The article features pictures of these stamps. Those who remember the times will find these adorable. The stamps are apparently available as first or second class stamps, at £1.60 or £1.55, and also in collectors sets.
Do I know enough people in the UK to send me postcards with stamps from:
Elite(1984)
Dizzy (1987)
Populous (1989)
Lemmings (1991)
Micro Machines (1991)
Sensible Soccer (1992)
Wipeout (1995)
Worms (1995)
Lemmings, Popoulus, Dizzy and Elite
each? Germany, meanwhile, is still debating whether computer games are hazardous and the people involved in the scene should be observed.
As a concept, the North Star principle gained a lot of attention in Product Management recently. Amplitude, a vendor of analytics tools, has a guideline to this concept. Their playbook walks product managers, those that want to enter the domain or even those just curious about methods and principles through the ideas. But also sets the scenes for potential applications by walking through exemplary goals to achieve with this approach.
Stapler (by James Bowe) Picture unrelated.
The playbook comes in 7 chapters, starting by describing the ideas to apply with the North Star concept. Only after the introduction the playbook enters the practical application of the concept, and with a chapter on product metric checklist checklists, it emphasises the importance of metrics. With this it also stresses the importance of selecting the right metric and not to lose a product in vain. E.g. active users would be the wrong metric, given the goal that shall be achieved.
More practical guidelines come with the chapter on running workshops in part 3, and the chapter on defining the right guiding metrics. In between, the document also gives success stories: there are sections that talk through a successful implementation of North Star at Netflix. But also Amplitude is leveraging the methodology and shares their experience in a section.
The closing chapters dedicate to debugging the processes attached, implementing them and over time changing directions.
Takeaway
In all the recent hype around the method, the key take away is to simplify ideas for your organisation. The approach is supposed to make it easy for your teams to understand the direction the product is taking. And even more following this direction. For a product management, communicating ideas should be a core skill. This approach gives great tools in doing so.
The guide to discovering your product’s North Star to improve the way you manage and build products.
Arduino launches IoT platform: With the Portenta H7 Arduino announces a Platform targeted at small and medium businesses. It comes with all the connectivity necessary to enable devices classified as Internet of Things: WiFi, BLE, with physical connectivity to USB and SD-Cards, plus the well known Camera or UART connectivity. TechRadar also mentions LTE. Here is the article from TechCrunch:
Adruino for IoT
Arduino, the open-source hardware platform, today announced the launch of a new low-code platform and modular hardware system for IoT development. The idea here is to give small and medium businesses the tools to develop IoT solutions without having to invest in specialized engineering resources. The new hardware, dubbed the Arduino Portenta H7, features everything […]
SHA-1 is a Shambles: Hashing Algorithm SHA-1 has seen collision attacks before. Gaëtan Leurent and Thomas Peyrin Published a chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1.
Nineteen Eighty Four! Ein Graffiti, heute Früh an einer S-Bahn der MVV in München. Neben dem Graffiti war ein Tag “Doppel Denk” angebracht. Die Schöpfer werden mit Ihrem Werk an das Buch von George Orwell erinnern haben wollen. In dessen Handlung spielt double think eine Grundlegende Rolle.
Das Buch Nineteen Eighty Four wird häufig synonym für die darin stattfindende Überwachung durch den Staat Ozeanien zitiert. Dessen Personifikation als “Big Brother” wird ebenfalls häufig referenziert. Während “Big Brother” die Personifikation der herrschenden “Inneren Partei” Ozeaniens darstellt, dreht das Buch sich auch in weiten Teilen um Begriffe und die Bedeutung von Worten.
Der Begriff “Doppel Denk” beschreibt eine “Neusprech” Methode der – in dem Buch – fiktiven Parteien, Ideen unter Anhängern zu verbreiten. Parteimitgliedern können mit Doppel Denk grundlegend unterschiedliche und teilweise widersprüchliche Überzeugungen (“Krieg ist Frieden“) zu akzeptieren.
Die Methode findet in der Kommunikation moderner Alt Right Anwendung, wenn beispielsweise bestimmte Situationen durch alternative Fakten umgedeutet werden sollen.
Announced in August 2019, AMD debuted it’s AMD Threadripper 3990X , the World’s First Prosumer 64 Core CPU, at CES2020.
AMD debuted its Threadripper 3990X at CES 2020, showcasing its incredible multi-threaded performance with 64 cores and 128 threads. It’s not a cheap processor, but it still massively undercuts even the closest competition, decimating even multi-chip systems in the demonstrated benchmarks.
In the same article, Digital Trends also calls the chip “Intels worst nightmare”.
