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11/12/2023

08/02/2023

As a PM or PD, do you have direct, live access to your engineers? or do you have to go through a middle party, a person, an entity, or a ceremony to access them?

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07/12/2022

Is it just me, or does anyone else 'love' the new Mural logo and UI (design system)?

31/07/2022

When designing hypotheses, we often forget to assess social risks. Social risks such as, "Can these people build this sh !"

Product Managers, how do you write a hypothesis to experiment around social risks and be candid with the team about your worry?

29/07/2022

If learning fast, hearing the truth, and relishing honesty is not part of the culture you celebrate, trying Agile will be just buzzwords good enough for your Linkedin feed.

29/07/2022

How many times a day do you say No.
(so that you can hold your work in progress.)

28/07/2022

Power of Small: You can do big things with small teams, but it's hard to do small things with big teams.

Signal number 3 in the 37signals

29/06/2021

The pandemic and new-normal overwhelmed all of us, yet it exposed major organizational sins. Ill-famed M&Ms were the biggest culprit we have seen. In this talk, I explore how we learned from the new normal and evolved to adapt beyond the new normal. In addition, I shared some codes for upgrading your skills to be equipped for the exciting times ahead.

SLASSCOM QUALITY & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE SUMMIT 2021 - Day 1WHAT'S WRONG WITH M&MS IN THE NEW LUXURYBy YASITH ABEYNAYAKADirector of Design Operations | Lead Pr...

07/06/2021

"Dealing with discrimination and racism daily was not a part of the job description."

It’s not just in the streets, and it’s not just in the United States. CNN shocking report on racial discrimination and prejudice at the workplace.

CNN Business spoke with 38 people in 11 countries who shared their stories.

23/08/2020

I think it is the wrong question! For me, The design is a continuous iteration from data, bets, experimentation in a loop. We experiment, we generate data, we look at them and form new bets. Ideally, earlier loops will take bigger bets to understand the problems we are working with, while aesthetics in most cases smaller problem that is solved in a later iteration.

Do you agree?

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17/08/2020

Listen to the Full Episode: https://anchor.fm/designby3/episodes/Have-you-ever-heard-of-AI-Design-Sprint-ei4jkg

This book helps anyone who is transitioning into or considering transitioning into management—a fresh and relatable read, about organizational culture. Further, it's rare to find a book written by designers and designer turn managers.

Apart from Amazing illustrations by Pablo Stanly, which summaries each chapter with informative but candid cartoons, I love how honest and relatable the book is. Julie has managed to create a handbook for any Silicon Valley generation individual contributor converted managers. Her writing style is simple to comprehend. If I must pick one, I will choose the second part of chapter one which is a simple self-check if you are considering switching to management, A self-check to know
whether you are turning for right reasons. Additionally, I also love the
chapter two, which is a guide for the first 90 days for a new manager.

But if you are looking for an excellent theoretical framework or new management philosophy, this might not be the book. Many chapters are like really, really good medium posts on independent topics. Topics range from giving feedback (Yes, but that chapter is nothing compare to radical condor) to hiring people for your team.

I would rate this book 4 out of 5 as it helped me to be a decent individual contributor turned manager, but I had to read a lot more to master each topic. When I master the content of this book became useless.