Dust jackets on book drive me crazy. They just slide off and make it harder to hold. Why do we still have them? Have we not innovated in the book domain to come up with better technology?

I'm not sure if this is a recent trend or not, but my favorite thing I've noticed about UI design lately is using off-white / paper-like background colors. I find it to be so much more soothing than stark white UI. Claude being the most recent example.

@hypercritical @siracusa oh nice, I didn’t know season 4 was coming out soon! Looking forward to it.

Did you know, there's A Few People Who Write Good Things on the Internet? https://bxtr.co/a-few-people-who-write-good-things-on-the-internet/

Installer has become the first newsletter I read on Saturday mornings. Basically a collection of all that’s good and fun on the internet. https://www.theverge.com/installer-newsletter

@stephenpa awesome, I saved that article to my read-later list

@feeeed great idea!!

How is it that text on Windows is still so bad? I attempted to edit a Google doc while on my gaming PC and I could not believe how bad the text rendering looked compared to my Mac. I figured this would be a solved thing by now. Am I missing some sort of configuration option?

I don't know how to write software (or make good UI mockups) - that said, it seems like a BUTTON that says something DO THIS NOW would be really useful.

HTH.

https://gist.github.com/merlinmann/8569bfe2726b3a067d8d59962912b463

The gamification of https://nateparrott.com/ is brilliant.

This feeeed app is great. Great interactions, lots of options for adding news sources. Incorporating your personal photo library is a great idea too. https://feeeed.nateparrott.com/

@rands I haven’t seen Matter (https://hq.getmatter.com/) recommended but I’ve been using it for a few years now. I tried Readwise once but it felt like it had too much going on. Matter hits the essentials for me.

I’ve been thinking about what a Product Manager does. I was reviewing frameworks like CIRCLES, but felt like that was incomplete/off and (more to the point) doesn’t show *relationships* between different activities. I whipped this up (in preparation for a job interview).

Thoughts?

Pink stuff = what exists
Blue = what we (mostly) control
Purple = where those things overlap

(Detailed description in the alt text)

#productmanagement #productmanager #visualthinking #pm

@stephenpa I really like the delineations of what is mostly under a PM's control — the job can be so ambiguous sometimes. I feel like this also does a good job of illustrating the "steady state" of a PM with the tension in multiple directions.

I had never seen the CIRCLES framework before now, but I agree it focuses more on the progression of activities and doesn't really highlight the relationships between them.

I'll definitely refer to this again. (And, good luck on the interview!)

@nathansmith I haven’t seen an “I’m safe” check in since then. Did you survive??

Mountains Beyond Mountains Wallpaper Collection 🏔️

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/mountains-beyond-mountains

@BasicAppleGuy these are awesome!

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113906508682860310

Instead of watching the ball drop, I wanted to watch my computer crash. I was very disappointed.
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