December 2018
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How to use the weekends to improve your productivity
I don’t normally think much of lists of productivity tips, but I quite liked this list from Quartz: Ten things to do on weekends to make your Monday more productive. The article starts with the oft-quoted statistic that productivity declines rapidly after more than 55 hours per week: So if you’re not working all through the…
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The Knowing / Doing Gap: Why Product Teams aren’t doing the things they know they should
Access to high quality resources for product management is better than ever before. There are so many excellent people writing about product management that it’s easier than ever to find the knowledge that you need. So why are there still so few product teams actually working in the ways described in all of these resources?…
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Christmas Hack Day at FATMAP
At FATMAP we celebrated Christmas last week by getting the whole company together for two days here in our Berlin HQ. We started with a one-day Hackathon. We started with idea proposals, and teams quickly formed around the most interesting and creative ideas. There was only one rule for a hack day proposal: you had…
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Ways to think about working smarter (not harder)
When Reid Hoffman talks about building a startup, he says it’s like jumping off a cliff, and assembling a plane on the way down. It’s a reference to the fact that when you start building a startup, you set a clock ticking. If you can find product-market fit and a viable business before the clock runs…