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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). Tom is the co-founder of Thington, a concierge for your smart home or office, which was recently acquired by Eero. Leisa tweets at @leisa and occasionally blogs at disambiguity.com. See you in July!

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Venture Funds Arrive in the Mastodon Space

Crafty CTO

Most of the older ones are dead, especially to blogs. P.S. Ironically, Gruber skewered Medium back in 2017 about an early form of enshittification, the dickbar. So even though one’s Mastodon account can smoothly transition and live on, posts can disappear. Gruber pointed out that: I have 20 years of links at DF.

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Should you bother with design sprints?

Product Warrior

I took the Tes product team to Mind The Product conference 2017 in London where Jake spoke on design sprints. We recruited a cross departmental team (including the CTO and CEO), cleared out 5 days in the calendar, purchased a heap of healthy snacks, bought a Time Timer and kicked off the first design sprint at Tes.

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With Jetpack, Android Development Has Leapfrogged iOS

Atomic Spin PM

That topic could be a blog post in itself. In 2017, they introduced Jetpack as an alpha version and encouraged developers to submit feedback on how it could be improved. In 2017, Google introduced ConstraintLayout as a replacement for RelativeLayout. What was I expecting?

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Darragh: You wrote a blog post recently about the impact of having sponsors during your time at Microsoft. Nick: Making Reddit more welcoming was a theme for all of 2017 and most of 2018. Nick: Snooze Day was actually started by the original Reddit CTO, Marty Weiner, and the idea was to give Reddit employees some creative freedom.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

We spent most of 2017 building it out. You can hear or read the full interview on the Intercom blog. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson. But for the amount of money Slack is spending, we needed to bring it in-house. Rachel now leads marketing at Notion.

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The ‘Balance’ Audit: An Honest Inventory on Gender Equality at StubHub

StubHub

Marilyn McDonald , Head of Product, Design, TPM & Interim Co-CTO (San Francisco, CA): A “balanced” workplace boils down to two important topics: people and inclusion. This comes from a 2017 McKinsey Report. I have a very crazy work life and an even crazier home life. to list a few. Marilyn McDonald: Two words: conscious action.