Notes from 30/3–6/4

COVID-19

COVID apps on glide

8 Great Websites to Learn New Tech Skills During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Funny how the link says 7 but the title says 8. Wonder what the new one was. Anyway there are a few ones that would be good. This would set the standard.

Career

How we communicate

The philosophy segment is quite long, but it even goes down to exactly what to do.

1. Implement automatic check-ins with your team so everyone knows what everyone is doing
2. 6-week ‘heartbeats’
3. 6-week ‘ kickoff’s
4. Announcements

fromdevtomaker

Extremely creative. Turned your entire to-do list into some sort of live game

Data

The Airport Graph

Short demo on using neo4j

Topic Modeling of 2019 HR Tech Conference Twitter

Has the entire tweet data scraping and cleaning thing done, I think can convert this into a google colaboratory notebook.

Code is here

Development

10 Extraordinary GitHub Repos for All Developers

All round useful material

System Design Interview Questions — Concepts You Should Know

Leaving this here for reference

How to create a Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard & Map App in React with Gatsby and Leaflet

Simple dev tutorial, this one also has roadtrip tracker etc

Product

What To Expect as a Product Manager in a Startup

Are you sure that you want to be a Product Owner?

• Do you love talking to people?
• Are you fearless of conflicts?
• Do you enjoy leading meetings?
• Do you listen more than you talk?
• Do you love negotiating?
• Are you able to take decisions at any time?

Yes I said yes to all.

The 14 best product launch emails for re-engaging customers

This will be a useful resource

What is NOT the role of a Product Owner?

YOU ARE NOT

• Order taker: receives orders and send it to the team directly, generally there is long-term goal;
• Responsible for the team: micro manage the team and behave as the manager of the team;
• The technical architect: defines all the solutions alone, the development team does not have a voice on how to solve problems;
• The only one who manages the backlog: the backlog is protected and lock under 7 keys, only the PO can touch this kid.

A framework for product strategy

FOR ((target customer)), WHO HAS ((need statement)), ((product/brand name)) IS A ((market category)) THAT ((key benefit statement/compelling reason to buy)). UNLIKE ((primary competitor alternatives)), THE PRODUCT ((unique differentiation statement)).

• Use the positioning statement as a guiding framework to develop your product strategy
• Break the positioning statement down, and build it back up with detailed research and input from a variety of sources and perspectives
• Create a detailed action plan, build support and quickly shift focus on implementation if you want to drive impact
• Update your strategic plan with market feedback, regularly

One of the hardest roles in tech: Product Designer

Goes through many of the individual roles and what they actually do, will be a good reference.

How to Write Your First Product Requirement Document

Many templates!

One-pager

Multi-pager

Life optimisation

To Be a Better Leader, Learn This FBI Hostage Negotiation Tactic

Voss’s game-changing insight was that nearly every successful hostage release happens only after the chief negotiator establishes an emotional connection with the kidnapper

When Voss analyzed the transcripts of his most unlikely hostage negotiation victories, he discovered that the turning point frequently occurred right after his team took the time to listen to the captor’s argument, summarized that argument back to the captor, and then got the captor to say, “That’s right.”

Literally do this ALL THE TIME. Constantly have to negotiate and find out a common ground.

Programming

The Hardest Program I’ve Ever Written

It’s *just* a formatter. No I mean it’s ridiculous how he solved this problem due to the sheer number of possibilities for formatting

Life Optimization

Tools

Time Cop

• Offline-only, mobile-only (iOS / Android)
• Fully private — there is no tracking / spying / advertising / etc
• Keep track of tasks with multiple parallel timers that can be started with the tap of a button
• Associate timers with projects to group your work (or don’t)
• Start, stop, edit, and delete timers whenever with no fuss
• Export data as a .csv file, filtered by timespans and projects
• Export the app’s database for full access to all of its data
• Automatic light mode / dark mode based on your device settings
• Localized in several languages (thanks to Google Translate): English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
• Open source (licensed under Apache-2.0) — fork away!