We, human beings, have that incredible ability to exploit, exaggerate and travesty every (originally) valuable idea we encounter. That is not necessarily because of some malice - we tend to focus on meaningless (yet visible) details instead of intentions and the purpose behind (the aforementioned idea). Oh well. One concept...
This post is inspired by the case of Goodreads. I started using that app several years ago and found it useful enough to keep it since then. It's a source of valuable book recommendations (if you follow the correct people, of course ;>) and a good registry of what I've already...
I consider myself a "product person". Counseling, consulting, and other types of mercenary work are cool short-term, but I'm not going to fool myself. In the end, I want to build (organically) something persistent and lasting that will stand out in comparison with the competition and make me proud as...
One of the things I'm usually very proud of is how I collect, catalog, and process information in my personal knowledge system. Ironically, somehow I've managed to completely miss the source (& author) of a fascinating statement I've come by recently: > "Advertising destroys everything it touches. Twists, defiles, cripples, and leaves...
We're so obsessed with novelty in our industry: * front-end folks want to work only with the latest frameworks, and 'jQuery' is one of the worst insults * somehow the biggest problem with all the APIs is that they are RESTful, not GraphQL * the traffic from all the 20 users per minute...
A side note before I even dive into the actual topic: I've never been an enthusiast of Wardley Maps (WMs). I always found them un-intuitive, subjective, and vague (because they are not based on any numeric, "hard" data). However (surprisingly for myself), recently, I've found them as a very useful...
