Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
Simon Joliveau Breney
Witty and How taste forms
- Never stop learning. Continuously invest in skill development and process improvements. Practice a growth mindset.
Phil Peron • Managing Your Product Playbook
One of the more abstract but dire consequences of this streaming mentality is that we’ve started to treat art and culture like wallpaper. The rise of algorithmic curation and AI-generated content has sent this into overdrive: On Spotify, music is detached from its human creators and flattened into algorithmically-generated playlists with
... See more404 Media • The Digital Packrat Manifesto
When people say “natural language” what they mean is written or verbal communication. Natural language is a way to exchange ideas and knowledge between humans. In other words, it’s a data transfer mechanism.
Data transfer mechanisms have two critical factors: speed and lossiness.
Julian • The Case Against Conversational Interfaces
You should schedule at least one 30-minute weekly meeting with everyone working on the project.
The goal of this meeting is to (1) be a backstop for any coordination that needs to happen and didn’t happen asynchronously; (2) be an efficient way to create common knowledge of goals, updates, etc.; (3) help you track whether things are going well.
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... See morebenkuhn.net • How I’ve run major projects
historically the company’s strength has never been grounded and rooted in execution. The only new product launch that succeeded was Airbnb.com. Every other big launch over the last eight years has actually been a complete flop. Our strength and the focus of leadership has always been marketing and storytelling. It was never been about technology
... See moreKen Norton • Building Products at Airbnb
- Start with the problem, not the solution. It’s tempting to jump into ideation but we are often wrong about the underlying problem. Make sure the problem is clearly stated and communicated.