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Or… heart me out, maybe it’s because Elon knows they have the most to loose and are thus more likely to do whatever he wants to not get kicked out of the country. Elon made some statements that made his disdain for the “laptop class” quite clear. He is no saint, or genius. He’s mostly just an extremely ruthless smart man.

Your response to that problematic event seems like dealing with trauma and some of the words you use like “our society has become […] significantly more feminized” seem to indicate some of those issues are still unresolved.

While I appreciate that you turned this into a positive, I don’t think violence and tough love is something we should promote, celebrate or even tolerate as a society.

Here is a crazy thought: how about we strive to create a space where everyone feels valid as they are, where they feel that have a space where they can contribute, rather than make people feel like they have to toughen up in order to “take charge” or forcefully “making space” for themselves by forcing others to follow their will.

The guy hitting you was not an appropriate response, neither is you possibly disrupting class by cracking jokes. The solution is communication and respect. Getting buff and letting a culture of “boys will be boys” prevail is not.

By who?

The capital might be the problem.

I'm in agreement with pretty much everything @crazygringo has said.

I don't know if this will help, but if I can offer a clarification on why I think product-led id not synonymous to "customer-led" or "market led" is that it's not simply finding and responding to market demands.

You have different types of product managers (f. ex. I am kind of excluding "technical product managers" from this characterization), but typically, product needs to own and understand what customers want BUT be able to understand the tradeoffs, factor in what delivering that value actually entails* AND assess the opportunity cost of pursuing these features vs 1 000 000 possible ideas.

This is typically not the job of sales managers, engineering managers or marketing managers, etc. So product is the function that uses market demands + input from all these other managers, gets buy-in and then helps things go smoothly.

* Building a feature is only part of the cost of a feature. It has to be marketed, it has to be maintained, it has to be improved, etc.

Product-led typically means "driven by customer needs" but also being able to make the correct trade-offs vis a vis engineering and sales considerations. That is, delivering something that is in line with what you can build and not delivering "value" that the customer is not ready to pay for.

Which can be opposed to "sales driven" where the sales team sold something, engineering has to play catch up, which can lead to technical debt and lack of focus mid-term.

Or engineering led, where the engineering team will decide priorities and might push cool tech demos that will never become successful products. Google being the best example of this type of culture.

Edit: article is terrible. He creates strawmans to sell his wares. As always, beware of consultant blogs.

In some places, you need to pay rights to play music in your store. As Square has a great number of business customers, it might be an easy upsell. Like get paid and provide a great ambiance?

Could also be a play to help reframe how people think of Square and be able to expand in other categories SMBs might need.

And?

Things can stay the same way for a long time, especially since, as you point out, governments now have large scale surveillance/ controls tools.

That doesn’t mean that things will be going well for these populations. You might just have a lot of death and suffering that will be ignored or hidden form the wider population.

You might also have important declines in life expectancy, wellbeing and happiness.

So, sure, a system can be robust and stay in place for a long time, doesn’t mean it won’t suck.

Canada has limits in free speech and seems to be doing just fine as a democracy. At least, it’s muuuuch better than the American one.

How about a simpler principle: harm reduction.

Letting people be mislead about vaccines harms people, letting people get brainwashed into mistrusting the legitimacy of their institutions harms people, letting people use their platform to incite genocide harms people.

They actually have metric to measure those things, it’s just that they prefer to dial down the heat, not kill it. It’s just too good for engagement.

Don’t “both sides” death and misery. It’s not a philosophy debate.

The actually have metrics for things such as dividedness and unrest. I wouldn’t be surprised they could do an analysis on propaganda.

Also, not asking right wing “news” orgs to be fact checkers or having GOP operatives override content policy team decisions regarding misleading stories that were reported by users would be another great way to reduce “propaganda”.

It’s not a technically unsolvable problem, it’s just one Facebook doesn’t want to solve. Don’t give them a free pass.

They are a multi billion dollar company, they have the all the ressources they need if they cared.

The kicker is that not everyone can pay the grand and since you have 8 people in the ER making 5 stitches, there no one left to help anyone else.

So, it works for some people, but overall it’s a pretty shitty system.

No it just means that it’s beyond comprehension. As a Canadian, I feel the same way.

Everything about the American healthcare system feels like a nightmare to me. From the cost, to the fact that it’s usually tied to your employer (!!) and that even if you have good insurance, you have to make sure to get care from “in network” healthcare professionals.

It seems to require a tremendous amount of energy for very little benefit for average citizens.

In absolute terms or in terms average quality of coverage for the population? Because in absolute terms, sure. In real “quality of healthcare”. Most likely not.

The fact that life expectancy in the US is lower (and decreasing too) than any other developed nation is pretty much all you should need to know.

It’s seldom mentioned when talking about unemployment. Particularly when it comes to titles, so it’s fair to say excluding the hopeless from unemployment makes it a misleading metric

Seconded.

Maybe push the security aspect? Have a tier be “bug bounty” and add something like “PM alerts are for users only. Report a bug and get a free version, for life”

It’s not a “socialist” city and it has not been proven to be more corrupt unless you count anecdotal media reports to be robust scientific studies.

There is corruption, but it’s not clear how much worse it is than in other North American cities.

Also, fun fact, parties that seemed to be more engaged in this corruption were not the “socialist” ones, but the neoliberal ones.

But hey, don’t let that stop you, it’s a great strawman you built there.

To be fair, we now have robots that throw perfect pointers and do hard math. If anything, they were ahead of their time! :p

That’s a great point, but I don’t think theory says that you have to stay at the base level of your specialization. While not as high margin as the other industries, they could go up the value chain and start producing smoothie packets to make more money.

If they made great smoothies (in addition to growing bananas), then they wouldn’t be leaving that market to blond Californian influencers living in Bali.

There is a difference between distributing an app and forcing people the developer to pay for the underlying service it offers.

Especially if you opt to not use any of said platform services.

App distribution != online services. They are two distinct markets.

There are multiple things retail does. Discovery and sales is one of it, but no one does what Apple wants to do with IAP.

Imagine that you buy a DVD player at Best Buy. That's cool. Best Buy decides the markup, where it puts it, how much it puts in promoting it, etc. That's also cool. You are OK with giving the with 30 % of your DVD player sales. After all, shelf space, promotion, etc. isn't free.

Now, imagine Best Buy hears that you sell DVDs by mail. People are already buying your DVDs and you are shipping it to their door, so you don't feel that it's worth your time and effort to "sell" them through Best Buy.

Best Buy is not happy with this. They say that for ANY DVD for the DVD player in their store, NEED to offered in their store AND you need to pay the same fee for which you get placement, promotion, etc.

You don't want to sell your "Mail in DVDs" in Best Buys, you don't want or need them promoting your DVD, they will never touch, manage, offer support, etc. for these "Mail in DVDs", but you HAVE to sell them in Best Buy because if you don't, then they will just stop selling your DVD player.

In short, they are in the business of selling DVD players, but want a cut of all "Mail in DVDs" because your customers bought the DVD player through them.

This is what Apple wants to do for any app that offers digital content / experiences that might not want to use their services. How is that OK?

Maybe its Alberta that's not representative of Canada ;)

As this was written 12 years ago and it would also be instructing to see if his perspective has evolved as he went on to found the StackExchange network.

Path 2.0? I think it's needed now more than ever.

Bootstrapping communities is hard though, how do you plan to do that?

Sure, you can be friends with bigots and authoritarians. It shouldn't be surprising it is a cause for concern for many people.

Did you miss the line where it was written "before we started the program, we were losing revenue. Now we increased it by 1MM$ / month"?

It seems that the whole point of the article is that while IT thinks that it is serving the customer (the business), it actually lost track of what it was needed to: helping it succeed.

That reminds me of an article about how by staying private longer, startups and investors were trying to capture most (if not all) of the upside from the company's growth.

I had not taken in to the logical conclusion that by going public, they would essentially be poisoning the well for everyone coming after them. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing. I would not have clicked if it was only for the title.

Are you saying they are not related? When Apple release the Apple Watch, they pushed the health features. However, they didn't think to account for women's menstural cycles and how it can affect physiological indicators.

It would never occur to a guy that that type of data is missing, because it is not something he has to deal with on a monthly basis.

So, yes, the two issues are related.