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.
“Because each of us wants to know that what we are doing matters. Without a sense of being valued by supervisors”
― The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People
― The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People
“From where I sit it today, pirate country starts about ten miles east of me. Foulness, Paglesham and the Blackwater. To this day, pubs out there go silent when a stranger walks in. You’re standing on their dirt, after all. A life on the ocean waves is one thing, but blood and soil are entirely another.”
― Pirate Utopia
― Pirate Utopia
“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
“That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“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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