Apr
Inside Facebook
What happens inside the wall of Facebook and the details of their hacker way and management philosophy.
Senior leaders are more coaches and facilitators, than bossess and gatekeepers. Their main role is to spot and encourage new ideas that every can then show to Mark.
Every 12 to 18 months, engineers are required to leave their teams and work on something else for a month.
Cornerstone of ethos is the hackathon to test out new, crazy ideas.
Mock-ups are favored oer conversations.
There isn’t one way to solve problems; there are many-and everyone is encouraged to come up with his own approach.
Mar
Designing Great Data Products
“We are entering the era of data as drivetrain, where we use data not just to generate more data, but use data to produce actionable outcomes.” by @jeremyphoward on @radar.
Mar
The Brain on Love
A relatively new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life. In the end, what we pay the most attention to defines us. How you choose to spend the irreplaceable hours of your life literally transforms you.
All relationships change the brain — but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
via @curiositycounts
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lose your fear of being wrong.
Mar
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![Managing Criticism in Design Exploration
Design decisions should always be based on what’s appropriate for the task at hand. If you find your design is being beaten down, the best way to fight back is to counter with “Well, when would my design be appropriate?”. Conversely, before you take pleasure in destroying someone else’s hard work, first make sure that you can answer “When is this solution great?”. […]
Lastly, always remember the golden rule of critique: don’t be a dick.
Read the full post from Intercom and check out their slick new “customer relationship management and messaging tool for web app owners”.
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Managing Criticism in Design Exploration
Design decisions should always be based on what’s appropriate for the task at hand. If you find your design is being beaten down, the best way to fight back is to counter with “Well, when would my design be appropriate?”. Conversely, before you take pleasure in destroying someone else’s hard work, first make sure that you can answer “When is this solution great?”. […]
Lastly, always remember the golden rule of critique: don’t be a dick.
Read the full post from Intercom and check out their slick new “customer relationship management and messaging tool for web app owners”.
Feb
Nike FuelBand.
There’s a deep psychology to the role data plays in motivation.
“When you look at setting a goal, we see a very clear trend that people who set themselves a goal and hit it are so much more likely to stick with any experience than the ones that either don’t set a goal, or set too high of a goal, miss it and get discouraged.” Finding that people don’t need “extreme granularity” and are instead mostly concerned with consistency and simplicity, Olander says what Nike is attempting to do is “make it really easy to level something—give yourself a goal, but then allow yourself to adjust that all the time to what you want to do.” - Nike’s Vice President of Digital Sport Stefan Olander
via CoolHunting
