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  • Contact tracing.

    “Health Officials Say ‘No Thanks’ to Contact-Tracing Tech“, titles Wired. In all these recent debates about how to handle Covid-19 going forward, in particular in Germany, it may be worthwhile looking beyond borders.

    Later last month, Engadget reported, that Israel stops phone tracing to enforce Corona quaranties. While Israel seemed to look at phone location information, the Wired article suggests multiple US states and cities evaluated the benefit of other contact tracing technology. The result seems to disappoint:

    States like New York, California, and Massachusetts, and cities like Baltimore and San Francisco, have looked carefully at cutting-edge contact-tracing solutions and largely said, “No thanks,” or “Not now.”

    via wired.

    Foreign perspective is an interesting one, too. Foreign Policy titles “Germany’s Angst Is Killing Its Coronavirus Tracing App“. Which, after all, may be the exact outcome.

    Corona

  • Schlangenöl

    Vollkommen überraschend ist Antivirensoftware Schlangenöl und können Schaden auf den Systemen anrichten, die sie schützen sollen. Quote:

    Da die Antivirenprogramme mit Root-Rechten laufen, konnten auch wichtige Systemdateien gelöscht werden.

    Aus dem Artikel.

  • The Rolling Stones Perform “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”

    Nach Lady Gaga, Elton John, den Killers, Annie Lennox und ettlichen anderen haben sich auch die Rolling Stones zuhause eingeschlossen und ein Konzert über Internet gegeben. Im Rahmen von One World: Together at Home haben die 4 “You can’t always get what you want.” zum Besten gegeben. Die Ärzte haben zwar neulich mit Ihrem “Lied für jetzt” etwas ähnliches gemacht, waren bei One World: Together at Home, glaube ich, aber aussen vor.

    Die Rolling Stones bei Ihrem One World: Together at Home Konzert
    Die Rolling Stones bei Ihrem One World: Together at Home Konzert

    As part of the One World: Together at Home fundraiser organized by the WHO, Global Citizen, and Lady Gaga that raised $127.9 million for Covid-19 relief efforts, the members of the Rolling Stones, each in their own home, got together via video to perform You Can’t Always Get What You Want. It’s a lovely messy & spare performance and the choice of song is timely — plenty of people around the world are definitely not getting what they want right now, but hopefully we will eventually end up getting what we need.

    kottke.org

    via kottke.org

  • Implementing feedback into our work culture

    Healthy organizations are places in which feedback is encouraged, even if it’s about issues that are not easy to hear. How does this work?

    Source: Implementing feedback into our work culture

  • Curated links for Product Managers

    everything.pm is a curated page with resources for Product Managers

  • 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.

    Product Management Predictions for 2020

    Ten Wild Predictions, One True Story and some Solid Career Advice

    From the article

    Just 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

  • City Streets

    Draw all streets at once. Probably qualifies as generative art, which exists way too little in this blog. Even though the author has some roots in it.

  • Tech layoffs spread (a bit)

    Are January layoffs just a few post-WeWork jitters? TechCrunch has found itself writing about layoffs at a few notable tech companies this week — and not just Softbank-backed ones. The focus is very much profits, as Alex Wilhelm summed up on Thursday, especially after the failed WeWork IPO and subsequent valuation and headcount decimation. We’ll […]

    From the article

    Source: Startups Weekly: Tech layoffs spread (a bit) | TechCrunch

  • The Y2038 Problem

    The Y2038 problem is similar to the Y2K problem. We’re exactly in between both about now. Both are 18 years away, in either direction. While Y2K is over and was obvious to everyone, Y2038 is not.

    The issue here relates to a representation of date and time in Unix systems, and is therefore sometimes referred to as Unix Y2K. The root is the convention to store date and time information as 32bit unsigned integer in such systems. This means, possible values are limited. Time-differences in seconds, starting from 01.Jan 1970 cannot span beyond 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.

    The Y2038 Problem
    Calendar

    The Y2038 problem will make all calculations beyond this date impossible, until migrated to another representation. At the time being, this seems far away. However, the problem casts its shadows already. Industries, in particular financial markets, often rely on long term forecasts.

    Governance issued treasury bonds come with with the longest maturity. Often twenty years, sometimes thirty years. Calculations for complex, long running financing models easily try to estimate returns 20 years and beyond into the future. This is already beyond the problematic date that Y2038 brings. The code to run these calculations is typically complex and stable. Sometimes, it is as old as from 1970. Back then, this date-representation Unix engineers introduced this approach. 32bit covered a long period. John Femellia has a thread, over at Twitter, telling a story about the upcoming issues today.

  • Team Product Ownership

    Team Product Ownership is a desirable property for any scrum team. Age of Product shares a few thoughts on how to encourage teams to think about customers and the product more.

    Learn how to encourage product ownership with an initial day-long product mindset workshop for your Scrum team — Age-of-Product.com. #Productdesign #Productdiscovery

    Source: Age of Product