The tech industry is a rapidly changing place, and we know all too well that there’s no one, true way to do product management.
“My parents’ room is an uncataloged planet, a night sky presence unknown to scientists but feared by the secret faithful who trade rumors of its mystery.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
“Van Houten nodded and said, “Did you close the deal with that chick yet?” Whereupon I encountered for the first and only time a truly speechless Augustus Waters. “I,” he started, “um, I, Hazel, um. Well.” “This boy appears to have some kind of developmental delay,” Peter Van Houten said to Lidewij.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Perhaps a symbolic rebalancing of Time’s earlier veneration of the user was the designation, four years later, of Mark Zuckerberg as Time’s Person of the Year.7 When Facebook’s CEO in 2010 took over the badge of honor from “You,” he promised to make the world more open and transparent, echoing the utopian spirit that had previously galvanized users.”
― The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media
― The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Being unable to retrace our steps in Time, we decided to move forward in Space. Shall we never be able to glide back up the stream of Time, and peep into the old home, and gaze on the old faces? Perhaps when the phonograph and the kinesigraph are perfected, and some future worker has solved the problem of colour photography, our descendants will be able to deceive themselves with something very like it: but it will be but a barren husk, a soulless phantasm and nothing more. “Oh for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still!” —Wordsworth Donisthorpe, inventor of the kinesigraph camera”
― Radiance
― Radiance
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