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**One of the best ways to ignite your own cozy FIRE is to live life as a lazy digital nomad. And all you need to do is browse the Internet and type things on your keyboard. We're lighting a FIRE the easy way on the ProcrastiN8r Podcast 2 weeks ago (lvl 11. I said 10 but it's 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record the whole thing) we talked about how to FIND your niche. Today we're looking at.... Top 10 Ways on  how to WRITE CONTENT for your niche...with as little effort as possible Without further ado, let's BURN...right into it You can't just blog to everybody! Blogging to everybody is blogging to nobody. Find. Your. Niche. NEWSJACKING (or as I call it “Procrasi-logging) involves finding a relevant trending topic and repurposing it for your own blog 10. Look at Your Competition AppSumo Look up a topic, then see the top articles related to that keyword View social media share stats for Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit as well as Total Engagement. Evergreen score (how long after it's published is it still being shared?) Take a look at magazine websites (headlines, images, language/slang used) Subscribe to top content creators in your niche. To find blogs, get an RSS Reader like Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, or Flipboard Listen to podcasts. Watch YouTube and Twitch. 9. Read the News Search Google News for a topic related to your niche and look at the top articles. Go to a site like AllTop or Reddit to find topic specific news (niche specific) Look at an article, video, or podcasts as if you're in the room talking to them in a conversation. What can you add to the conversation? What insight is missing? Can you add a joke or something funny? 8.See What People Are Talking About and How They Are Engaging RedditList Type keyword related to niche, find relevant subreddits You could look at the official Reddit as well to find But Redditlist includes Subscriber rank (compared to other subreddits) and subscriber growth. Reddit list does NOT include all subreddits. Search relevant hashtags on Twitter, groups or Pages on Facebook, Pins on Pinterest, stories and posts on Instagram. See which posts are getting the most engagement and what type of emotional reaction the commenters are having. Write content that purposely sparks that emotion in your language (anger, sadness, joy, laughter, fear, etc.) Look at the comments of what people are saying on reddit, blog posts, and news sites. Pay attention to what's happening in the conversation. Are there points you agree with and could build upon with your own spin or maybe something you disagree with. 7. Find Out What People Are ASKING About What do people in your niche want to know? What are some common problems or concerns? Attend Livestreams and Webinars. Take notes not only on the content itself but What are people asking? What kind of comments are they saying? Look at FAQs of sites within your niche  and build content answering them in your own words. (eg. There might be “How do I get rid of background noise like fans in my audio?” on a software like Audacity or Adobe Audition or “How do I promote my brand on Facebook” on a site related to online marketing or “How do I receive dividends?” on a stock exchange site/app) 6. Always C&P Participate in forums and Reddit discussions yourself. Comment on FB posts, YouTube videos, Instagram photos. Answer questions on Quora, ehow, or Yahoo Answers. Amazon and other shopping sites are great if your niche is more product focused; you can look at the reviews and asked questions. Copy and Paste your own comments into a note taking app like Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, Dropbox Paper,  or Google Keep. Tag it with relevant tags and give it a title so you'll remember the gist of what you're saying at a glance. Include a link to the comments. Color code it to make it easy to find in the future Remember: it's important to ALWAYS copy & paste your comment BEFORE you even post it, maybe even create a note first and copy it from there. Because if someone deletes your comment or their post  or changes the privacy settings or blocks you (or shuts down the website altogether if it's a forum/blog), it's gone FOREVER. You can't necessarily rely on the Web Archive.org. Keep your own records of the thing you say online related to your niche. You'll thank me later. 5. Save It For Later Take advantage of Pinterest's “secret boards” to collect ideas for blogs or craft projects in the future Similarly, you can save links, images, and videos on FB's Save for Later feature. You can change your privacy settings for a specific post you create so “Only You” can see it then just save it for later. You can Save Reddit posts and comments. Save articles you find on the web & you plan to re-write or read/comment on with the click of a button  using a bookmarking app like Evernote Webclipper, Pocket, Pinboard, or Instapaper. You can also just use the built-in bookmarking feature in your browser, since nowadays you can signin to Chrome or FireFox or Edge or whatever and sync your bookmarks and history across multiple devices. 4. Chat it up! In your daily life, you talk to your friends and family about the things you like. Take note of the points made in the conversation or use the recording app on your phone. The note apps (google Keep, etc) also allows to save voice notes. Or heck, record the conversation (with permission, don't be a creep) on your phone. Start a forum topic and see where the discussion leads. Repurpose it for a blog post. When you reach enough notoriety and level of trust and authority, people will come to you with questions on social media. Actually reach out and talk to people. Hit them up in their DMs. Note the type of questions they're asking you. And if you're not established as a source of authority in your niche yet: Find people that are. Interview guests. Record it then transcribe it, using the autotranscibe tool Scribie. All you do is ask questions and they give answers. You don't even have to know anything. 3. Share It Write a quick blurb about a video or photo or infographic and share it as a post You can even re-word top rated comments already said on other sites. This is one of the laziest ways to create content. Find something already being liked and shared then make a comment similar to one that's also being liked/upvoted/gilded in your blog post. 2. Rinse & Repeat it Find a way to recycle old content, dig it back up and make it look a bit different by re-wording it. This works well if your in a niche that requires advice. You'll find yourself repeating the same advice over and over again. But that's okay, our brains learn from repeated information and stimuli. Use an online thesaurus to get suggestions for alternative words to use in your writing. You can also take a specific quote from an interview and do a deep dive/analysis of it. All that is is rewording what the person said in several different ways. The only thing you are doing is taking previously written or spoken words and rearranging them or replacing them with similar words. You simply express the content using different vocabulary. See what I did there? 1. Go Behind the Scenes Show pictures of your office, recording setup, gear, etc. Show things from your personally life (the game you're playing, the movie you're watching, the pizza you're eating, etc.) You should only do this on occasion. The site is about your niche and not your personal diary. 0. Talk about what you already talked about but do it a bit different Self explanatory. You get the point now. What to Avoid Writing: Verbatim (word for word) Fake News (unless that's your niche) Sounding boring How to Find Your Niche the Easy Way I said this episode was Lvl 10, but it's actually Lvl 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record and fix it. Meh whatever. You'll figure it out. Get Free Images for Your Blog: FreePik NeedPix**

デザインの校正・レビューについて、コストをあまりかけない方法をいろいろ提案。無料でアカウントも不要なツール、Adobeのツールの標準機能を使う方法などを紹介しています。＝＝＝ 目次 ＝＝＝00:00:00 デザイン校正ツールは何がいい？00:01:32 企業向けならZiflow00:02:50 お手軽ツールとしてはAUN（アウン）00:04:26 Dropbox Paperでもデザイン校正できる00:06:10 Miroなどのオンラインホワイトボードを使う00:07:10 Adobeのツールのレビュー用に共有機能00:10:09 デザインツールの共有・レビュー機能-------#アシカガCASTデジタル活用のヒントをスキマ時間で。話題のサービス、注目のソフトウェアの紹介、デジタルツールの活用術など、テック系情報をわかりやすくお届けします。月〜水 朝8時に更新■アシカガCAST文字起こし要約｜アシカガコウジ｜note https://note.com/ashikagacast/m/mbc989fbedb84■X（Twitter）アカウントhttps://twitter.com/ashikagacastApple Podcast、Spotify、Google Podcastなどでも配信しています。■アシカガCASTの聴き方http://typebot.io/ashikagacast ■アシカガノオトhttps://ashikaga.substack.com/

Send us a Text Message.Ever wondered how some design firms can create high-quality websites in just one day? Learn the secrets from web design expert Savannah of Knapsack Creative as she unveils their distinctive time-blocking method designed to deliver efficient and outstanding results. From the initial client contact to the collaborative design day, Savannah walks us through every step of their streamlined process, emphasizing the importance of quick decisions and organized content collection with tools like Content Snare. This episode promises to transform your approach to web design with actionable insights and strategies.But that's not all—we also dive into the firm's structured approach to project scheduling and time management. Discover how Savannah and her team allocate specific days for project work, meetings, and internal tasks, ensuring efficiency and clear communication with clients. Plus, explore the various workflow tools like Asana, Dropbox Paper, and Slack that contribute to their seamless project management system. Don't miss out on these valuable tips and more, including a mention of their informative podcast, The Friday Habit, which offers additional strategies for business efficiency.Support the Show.Come tour my digital home :) >>>WebsiteWanna be friends? >>> LinkedInLet's chat every Tuesday! >>> Newsletter

Today's conversation focuses on building scalable hiring processes as your org grows and creating systems that promote operational excellence, featuring Stephen Poletto, CTO @ Lattice. He shares examples of how they introduced & scaled their hiring processes to better articulate employee value propositions, implement experience differentiators, and created hiring rubrics & loop documentation. Stephen also reveals strategies for defining what operational excellence looks like within your org, how certain rituals impact company psychology / behavior, and steps for ending & replacing rituals that are no longer working. Additionally, we dissect frameworks for adding incentives within your eng org that improve organizational impact – and how to avoid bad incentives.ABOUT STEPHEN POLETTOStephen Poletto is the Chief Technology Officer at Lattice, where he leads the company's product development, and where he scaled the engineering team from 20 to 150 team members. Stephen began his career at Apple before spending eight years building and growing technical teams at Dropbox. Stephen has had the opportunity to incubate new products such as Dropbox Carousel and Dropbox Paper, and also work on at-scale products such as the Dropbox mobile app and Dropbox's platform infrastructure. Stephen lives in San Francisco. In the winter, you can find him snowboarding in the mountains."Even very simple things like a candidate's been in back to back interviews. You hop on. 'Hey, how are you? Do you need a five minute break?' We would train interviewers on some of those tactics, right? At the beginning of the call, set the agenda. ‘We're going to spend this amount of time on these topics. We're going to spend this amount of time to give you space to ask questions of me.' Now the candidate knows what to expect. They're put at ease. It's simple stuff but it really colors the way that people feel about the interview itself. What kind of feeling do they have about the company coming out of it?”- Stephen Poletto   Join us at ELC Annual 2024!ELC Annual is our 2 day conference bringing together engineering leaders from around the world for a unique experience help you expand your network and empower your leadership & career growth.Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to expand your network, gain actionable insights, ignite new ideas, recharge, and accelerate your leadership journey!Secure your ticket at sfelc.com/annual2024And use the exclusive discount code "podcast10" (all lowercase) for a 10% discountSHOW NOTES:Stephen's primary goal when he first joined Lattice (3:15)Steps for building out a systematic & repeatable hiring process (5:51)Defining & articulating employee value propositions during the hiring process (8:00)Strategies for presenting company culture via hiring / onboarding (10:21)Hiring experience differentiators & how to make them the norm (13:27)Training the engineering team on how to effectively hire (16:53)Stephen's process for creating a hiring rubric & loop documentation (20:06)How hiring systems can be tweaked / evaluating current hiring needs (22:20)Identifying what operational excellence means for your org (24:22)Rituals / dilemmas to focus on that influence psychology & behavior (26:13)Examples of ending & replacing processes / operations (29:58)Signals that a ritual is no longer serving your needs (32:12)Frameworks for applying incentives / rewards within an eng org (34:57)Navigating the balance between output vs. input (38:57)First steps toward better organizational impact & avoiding bad incentives (41:07)Rapid fire questions (43:37)LINKS AND RESOURCESProduct-Led AI - Greylock partner and former product builder Seth Rosenberg talks with founders about their inspiration and process to build, test, and continually reimagine how AI and humans work together.The Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation - Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up, for both employees and managers.Steve Bartel's blog - Steve Bartel is the co-founder and CEO of Gem. Prior to founding Gem, Steve was an engineering leader at Dropbox where his experience working closely with the recruiting process allowed him to see the lack of technology in the space. This inspired him to co-found Gem, which allows recruiting teams of all sizes to source talent, engage with talent, and use data to improve recruiting processes.This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

ドキュメントを共有するツールとして、NotionとDropbox Paperのどちらを使うか迷うことが多いです。いまひとつ知名度の低いDropbox Paperをおすすめする内容です。＝＝＝ 目次 ＝＝＝00:00:00 プレゼンテーションモードがあるDropbox Paper00:02:58 ドキュメント共有機能について00:05:10 Dropboxユーザーならコメントできる00:06:49 カレンダーやガントチャートの機能もある00:08:09 Dropbox上のファイルを埋め込んでプレビュー00:09:28 ビデオ会議ではZoomのノート機能も良さそう-------#アシカガCASTデジタル活用のヒントをスキマ時間で。話題のサービス、注目のソフトウェアの紹介、デジタルツールの活用術など、テック系情報をわかりやすくお届けします。月〜水 朝8時に更新■X（Twitter）アカウントhttps://twitter.com/ashikagacastApple Podcast、Spotify、Google Podcastなどでも配信しています。■アシカガCASTの聴き方http://typebot.io/ashikagacast ■アシカガノオトhttps://ashikaga.substack.com/

 Head over to leadfeeder.com and sign up for a 14-day (no strings attached) free trial!In this episode, Sarah Noel Block shares her incredible experience with Knapsack Creative's web design process. Discover how their efficient, collaborative approach and structured project management lead to seamless client experiences. Learn how you can apply these principles to your own projects.Key Takeaways:Efficient and Collaborative Process: Knapsack Creative's approach to web design is highly efficient and collaborative, with a focus on completing websites in as little as a day. This process involves time blocking, screen sharing, and video chats for feedback, ensuring that decisions are made quickly and the project moves forward smoothly.Client Experience and Fit: The importance of ensuring a good fit between the client and the agency is emphasized, as the fast-paced nature of the process requires clients to be quick decision-makers. The initial fit call and clear communication throughout the process are crucial to align expectations and ensure a seamless experience.Structured Project Management: The use of tools like Asana and Dropbox Paper for project management and content snare for gathering information allows for a highly organized approach. This structure, along with a clear project map and time-blocked schedule, helps both the team and the client stay on track.Preparation and Flexibility: The agency prepares a significant portion of the website before the design day, allowing for a focus on finer details and revisions during the collaborative session. There's also a buffer in scheduling to accommodate any unexpected changes or additional work.Replicability and Scalability: The processes and systems Knapsack Creative has developed are not only efficient for their own projects but are also applicable and adaptable to other industries and project types. The emphasis on clear SOPs, time blocking, and structured project management can be replicated to improve efficiency and client experience in various contexts.Meet Savanna:Savanna is the Director of Knapsack Creative, a Squarespace web design company that's on a mission to create the world's best web design experience. She began working at Knapsack in 2018 as an "intern" (they weren't hiring, so she offered to start coming in for free). She eventually was hired on as a web designer and for several years, Savanna cranked out websites for Knapsack. In 2022 she took over for the founder, Ben Manley, to run the day to day. Now she brings her background in design and experience building hundreds of sites to perfect the systems and processes for the business. When she's not meeting with new clients or heading up new initiatives, she can be found exploring Lynchburg with her husband, going for walks in nature, or enjoying a day out on the lake.WebsiteInstagramWebsite: https://www.sarahnoelblock.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahnoelblock/Newsletter: https://tinymarketing.me/newsletterTiny Marketing CommunityClick here to ask a question about the episode

Everyone talks about the future impact of AI, but there's already an AI product that has revolutionized a profession. Alex Graveley was the principal engineer and Chief Architect behind Github Copilot, a sort of pair-programmer that auto-completes your code as you type. It has rapidly become a product that developers won't live without, and the most leaned-upon analogy for every new AI startup – Copilot for Finance, Sales, Marketing, Support, Writing, Decision-Making. Alex is a longtime hacker and tinkerer, open source contributor, repeat founder, and creator of products that millions of people use, such as Dropbox Paper. He has a new project in stealth, Minion AI. In this episode, we talk about the uncertain process of shipping Copilot, how code improves chain of thought for LLMs, how they improved product, performance, how people are using it, AI agents that can do work for us, stress testing society's resilience to waves of new technology, and his new startup named Minion. No Priors is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel on YouTube and like this episode. Show Links: Alex Graveley - San Francisco, California, United States | Professional Profile | LinkedIn Minion AI Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @alexgraveley | @ai_minion Show Notes: [1:50] - How Alex got started in technology  [2:28] - Alex's earlier projects with Hack Pad and Dropbox Paper [07:32] - Why Alex always wanted to make bots that did stuff for people [11:56] - How Alex started working at Github and Copilot [27:11] - What is Minion AI [30:30] - What's possible on the horizon of AI

Yuhki Yamashita is Chief Product Officer at Figma. Prior to Figma, he was Head of Design of Uber's New Mobility efforts, and before that a product manager at Google and Microsoft. Adding to his impressive resume, Yuhki also taught introductory computer science at Harvard. In today's episode, we talk about operationalizing quality, the case against OKRs, and how Figma isn't just known for product-led growth, but also for building a community of empowered users. Yuhki also shares why he thinks storytelling is key to being a great product manager, owning the "why," and the potential impact of Adobe's acquisition of Figma.—Find the full transcript here: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/an-inside-look-at-how-figma-builds-product-yuhki-yamashita-cpo-of-figma/#transcript—Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting this podcast:• Notion—One workspace. Every team: https://www.notion.com/lennyspod• Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security: https://vanta.com/lenny• Flatfile—A CSV importer that says yes instead of error: mismatch: https://www.flatfile.com/lenny—Where to find Yuhki Yamashita:• Twitter: https://twitter.com/yuhkiyam• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuhki/• Website: https://www.figma.com/@yuhki—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—Referenced:• Yuhki's guest post on Lenny's Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-figma-builds-product• Shishir Mehrotra on Lenny's Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rituals-of-great-teams-shishir-mehrotra-of/id1627920305?i=1000576021672• Five Why's template: https://www.figma.com/templates/5-whys-template/• Dylan Field on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zoink• Jeff Holden on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffholden• Figma: https://www.figma.com/• Friends of Figma: https://friends.figma.com/• Camille Ricketts on Lenny's Podcast: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-notion-leveraged-community-to-build-a-10b-business-camille-ricketts-notion-first-round-capital/• Adobe Illustrator: https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/campaign/pricing.html• Adobe Photoshop: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard: https://www.amazon.com/Switch-Change-Things-When-Hard/dp/0385528752/• The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Stone-Dream-Chamber-Vol/dp/0140442936• Serial podcast: https://serialpodcast.org/• The Good Nurse on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81260083• FigJam: https://www.figma.com/figjam/• Asana: https://asana.com/• Slack: https://slack.com/• Notion: https://www.notion.so/• Dropbox Paper: https://www.dropbox.com/paper/start• Figma's Alignment Scale: https://www.figma.com/community/widget/1030848035996871692—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Yuhki's background(09:05) What Yuhki learned from being on a design team(10:29) Why managing designers is more difficult than managing product teams(12:20) Why storytelling is important for product managers(16:35) How to improve your storytelling skills (18:51) Why PMs need to know the “why” of the product they are managing(22:34) The importance of developing a community and strong customer relationships(26:13) How to use different types of feedback(28:11) Working with Dylan Field(32:44) Testing at Figma and the branching emerging feature(34:54) Why your entire company should be using your product(36:50) The importance of having personal accountability (38:48) Why Yuhki likes to stay out of the way of engineers fixing their own bugs(40:50) Yuhki's thoughts on OKRs and how they are used at Figma(48:40) Figma's interview process(51:45) How Figma's sales team works by creating human connections and empowering designers(54:57) How Figma built community and created organic growth(56:36) Advice for founders (58:57) The potential acquisition by Adobe and the future possibilities for Figma(1:01:42) Closing thoughts (1:03:44) Lightning round—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

Since we are in the midst of talking about quality control and how one method to ensure that you have quality control over the output of your company to your clients or customers, be it a service or a product, is to lay down processes, we wanted to bring by an oldie but a goodie episode from Season 1!Sevana and Tiffany (formerly known as, Chloe) goes in-depth in this episode about processes and why you need them, how to get started, and then what to do afterwards. Famous Example - Toyota (https://www.process.st/process-implementation/)Adam Smith Books - Wealth of Nations (https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Adam-Smith/dp/1494844737/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=wealth+of+nations+adam+smith&qid=1666898244&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjc0IiwicXNhIjoiMy40NSIsInFzcCI6IjMuNzcifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=wealth+of+%2Caps%2C268&sr=8-1)Tools - Microsoft VizioMicrosoft WordScreencast-o-matic (https://screencast-o-matic.com/)DropBox Paper (https://www.dropbox.com/en_GB/paper)Evernote (https://evernote.com/)LucidCharts (https://www.lucidchart.com/)Advice - Keep it simple! Your documentation is only as useful as it is for those who use it. Don't make it so burdensome to reference that no one ever references it.****************************About BBSB - We are two business owners with two very different perspectives on building business, and the business behind that in order to achieve your goals. One of us built to sell, and will continue on the serial entrepreneur path, which means your focus and drive should include very particular tools and tips in order to achieve your goal. The other, is building a generational business, one that can go on long after she's let go of the wheel. This type of business also requires very specific tools and platforms to achieve this goal. Both women have been successful in their own right, but in honesty - haven't scratched the surface!Sponsorship Opportunities - Email us here: thebusinessbehindsmallbusiness@gmail.comWebsite - Check out our website! https://www.thebusinessbehindsmallbusiness.comNotice - As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. These earnings contribute towards the costs of creating this podcast and we greatly appreciate your support!Disclaimer - We are NOT licensed financial experts, nor do we give financial advice. Anything we share with you here on our podcast, whether it be a personal experience or submission, or advice/tips that have worked for us, or that we believe would work for you should not be viewed as either financial, business, or tax advice. We ask for you to do your research, have open and honest conversations with your company's own support providers and make decisions based upon that. Throughout this broadcast we will share our knowledge and give suggestions and hope you will receive them as part of your overall research to better your own company.

Today is a special episode of UP with our first returning guest David Rosenthal from the Acquired Podcast (Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal)! David also started a venture fund called Kindergarten Ventures with his friend (from kindergarten) Nat Manning (Kettle). Thomas and David discuss their investment in Vanta, an automated compliance company which "helps companies scale security practices and automate compliance for the industry's most sought after standards - SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA." Topics Include: -David and Thomas' investing thought processes -Software eating the world -Why Vanta? -What is Vanta? -Why you still need the Auditors and why that was smart for Vanta to pursue -Christina Cacioppo, CEO & Founder, at Vanta "Christina Cacioppo is the CEO and co-founder of Vanta, a leading security and compliance platform backed by Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator. Previously, she led product management for Dropbox Paper. She is based in San Francisco and enjoys running and reading in her spare time." -Kindergarten Fund -Terms of the Vanta deal -Vanta deal dynamics -Goals and Future hopes for Vanta -Rule of 40 Company (Recurring revenue growth + cash flow margin) a SaaS company's growth rate when added to its free cash flow rate should equal 40 percent or higher -Liquidation Preference (Benefits and Downside?) Sponsors: Tegus Research My Marketplace Builder Links: Thomas McGannon LinkedIn Follow us on social media: Like and subscribe and all that stuff...stay in touch as we will have exciting updates and content soon... @uppodpod Twitter @uppodpod Instagram UP YouTube Channel up-pod.com (Now with ListenNotes for transcripts of each episode) Email us: show@up-pod.com,

Today's episode is with Steven Bartel, co-founder and CEO of Gem. Before building the talent acquisition platform, Steven was an early engineer at Dropbox, where he spent 5 years working on analytics, Dropbox Paper, and hiring as the company grew from 25 to 1500 people. This experience from Dropbox, combined with his lessons from building out Gem's own team and talking to his customer base of recruiters makes Steven the perfect person to talk to about early-stage recruiting. In our conversation we focus on how to make those fourth, fifth, or tenth hires — those really early days when your startup has zero brand recognition or recruiting help. Here's a preview of his tactical advice: A trick for sourcing second-degree network connections The power of sending a “break-up” message in your candidate outreach.  How Gem brought candidates on to work with them in very structured trial periods before making a full-time offer.  Advice for working on your recruiting pitch and nurturing passive talent The similarities between early-stage hiring and founder-led sales You can email us questions directly at review@firstround.com or follow us on Twitter @firstround and @brettberson 

Notion es un espacio de trabajo todo en uno, con una interfaz de lo más minimalista en la que puedes tomar notas, planificar, gestionar, organizar proyectos e información hasta crear tableros de inspiración. Esta herramienta también es conocida como “La navaja Suiza de la productividad”. Una navaja suiza tiene multi hojas que incluye una variada combinación de herramientas multifuncionales necesarias para solucionar diferentes tipos de problemas. Así es Notion, en el espacio digital todo en uno. Notion ha decidido abrir el servicio a los usuarios gratuitos ofreciendo planes personales sin coste y sin límites, sin embargo, esta versión se destina más a personas individuales que a grupos La aplicación está disponible para los cuatro principales sistemas operativos que son Windows, Mac, Android e iOS, aunque también funciona desde el navegador, y solamente tendrás que conectar un correo electrónico para crear una cuenta. Tendrás que explorar dentro de la misma app todas las opciones posibles para elegir la que más se ajuste a tus necesidades. Esta herramienta tiene una curva de aprendizaje algo elevada al principio, gracias a la gran variedad de herramientas que tiene, hay que elegir la más adecuada al proyecto. Te registras con un correo o con el tu cuenta de google, por ejemplo Puedes importar archivos en texto de hoja de cálculo .csv, documentos de Word, archivos HTML, y puedes conectar con tus cuentas de Trello, Asana, Google Docs, Dropbox Paper, Quip, Evernote y Workflowy. Y ahora tienes la oportunidad de que todas esas aplicaciones se unan en una sola para crear una macro herramienta a través de la creación de estructuras que se van enlazando a través de páginas y bloques que permite tener todo lo que necesitas en un solo lugar. Notion se adapta a cualquier entorno y permite recopilar cualquier tipo de información. La grandeza de Notion está en su enorme versatilidad ya que es totalmente flexible y personalizable a las necesidades de cada usuario, presentándose como un libro en blanco. Una vez creado tu workspace puedes comenzar a crear diferentes tableros o bloques como las piezas de puzzle de tu página. De la unión de estos elementos se forma la página. según tus necesidades . La unidad mínima en Notion son los bloques Los bloques son fluidos: Bases de datos, bloques de media, Bloques de contenido incrustado, tablas de contenido, Migas de pan, Botones. Menciones de paginas, personas, fechas y recordatorios Conclusión Cómo has visto qué es y para qué sirve Notion, son todas las posibilidades de uso ilimitadas como siendo una herramienta muy potente que permite mejorar la productividad de nuestra empresa ya que si eres capaz de utilizarla de forma correcta puede aunar toda la información que necesitas en un solo lugar, puede ser una biblioteca de imágenes, una agenda, un archivo de facturas, un administrador de tareas, puedes comprobar el potencial de la plataforma es inmenso. En un principio, entender qué es y para qué sirve Notion puede parecer un poco complicado. Una vez que ingresas a la aplicación, te encuentras ante una cantidad infinita de opciones que en poco tiempo estarás familiarizado con todo lo que necesitas para sacar provecho a esta aplicación.

Nate Peters on being intentional, digital art and generative NFTs, the advantage of established creators, and the fast pace of artificial intelligence & crypto. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Nate works as a software engineer for Autodesk. Before joining Autodesk, he earned his Master of Design Studies in Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture at Iowa State University. We're no experts, so please don't take our words as financial advice. We just hope our conversation sheds some light in your own path to learning more about the world of digital currencies, machine learning, and technology. Links Substack & Revue Memberful Descript's new features Typinator, PHP, Bash & Makefiles Processing & p5.js WebGL & three.js HuggingFace & Gradio Foundation.app, NiftyGateway & OpenSea Smart contracts NFTs (non-fungible tokens) Ethereum & Solana Artblocks SHA256 hash generator Pix2Pix, StyleGAN & Pixel2Style2Pixel Machine-learning based sketch vectorization Suggestive Drawing iA Writer, Dropbox Paper & Notion Figma People mentioned Refik Anadol Tyler Hobbs Craig Mod Matt DesLauriers Seth Godin Lex Fridman Anthony Pompliano Zach Lieberman Chapters 00:00 · Introduction 00:57 · NFTs 02:55 · Established creators 06:27 · Early adopters 07:50 · Ownership 10:04 · Royalties and smart contracts 13:55 · Generative art 19:39 · Mechanics of crypto art 29:07 · Digital artists vs speculators 30:53 · Attention is power 34:48 · Supporting artists and platform lockdown 47:48 · Laser eyes 48:59 · DAOs 52:17 · Machine learning and artificial intelligence 59:30 · Generative networks 01:01:33 · Making machine learning accessible 01:10:03 · The fast pace of AI 01:21:32 · AI-based audio and video editing 01:27:43 · Subscriptions 01:37:50 · Advice for beginners 01:39:21 · Wrap up 01:41:20 · Outro Submit a question about this or previous episodes. I'd love to hear from you. Join the Discord community. Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast. Theme song Sleep by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoesp Instagram.com/nonoesp Facebook.com/nonomartinezalonso YouTube.com/nonomartinezalonso

Listeners, I'm so excited to have you here. It's the week of Christmas and I know you are probably running around but I'm grateful you're listening and being a part of Small-Minded this week.    Today's episode is action oriented as I give specific and clear instructions on how to boost your engagement with minimal effort and minimal time.    So how do you do this? First, I would open a Google Doc, Dropbox Paper, or a notebook to jot these down as you go. Facebook Platform: Facebook creator studio or business suite Posts & Stories tab Scroll through and find your top 1-5 posts with the highest reach Option 2 for Facebook Platform:  Insights tab - content Change date range to “this year” Click “ads and posts” - uncheck ads Select Facebook or Instagram Click on reach, likes & reactions, comments, shares, saves to see which posts rise to the top Instagram from your phone:  Go to your account Hit the hamburger menu Select insights from the pop up menu Click “content you shared” Be sure that date range is set to “last year” Adjust for the metric you wish to measure   On December 26, create and schedule a post that says how much you love to reflect at this time of year and look back on what resonated most with your followers in the past 12 months, like a VH1 annual countdown - I lived for those.   From 12/27-12/31 copy and paste and schedule your most reached post.  Copy and paste and schedule your most commented Most shared Most viewed Most clicked   Best part: it's done AND it's already proven to be highly engaging content   MKM SOCIAL SCHOOL IS OPEN COMMERCIAL   Feeling happy, free, confused, and lonely all at the same time? Sometimes business ownership can be miserable and magical, yeah?  Especially at this time of year!  But don't worry business owner, everything will be all right if you keep me next to you! I'm Molly, and I've helped small-town small businesses strategically market their businesses on social media for over 5 years. We approach marketing in the small town way: so that it's more authentic, less sales-y, and more effective. And next year from January-March, I'm sharing my best marketing strategies with YOU! I don't know about you, but I'm feeling '22! Starting in January, we are going to dive into your 2022 business goals and outline your marketing strategy in your social media, website, and email marketing so you don't have any more blank spaces in your marketing calendar and you can grow the business of your wildest dreams.  You know all too well what it feels like to try to market your products and services on the fly. With this 12-week program, you'll know when and how to talk about your 2022 offers and feel confident that your marketing efforts are working for you. ...are you ready for it?   Training Topics January: Social Marketing 101 (overview of socials - pick your poison) February: Website Best Practices March: Email Marketing Best Practices Who is this for? Small town small business owners Business owners who want to know not only what to say but how to say it Business owners who want to bring all their marketing channels together so they work together to tell your story and authentically connect with your audience & community Want to network with other small business owners Work well in an online format   Get all the details on signing up at mollyknuthmedia.com/shop!   Janey Stahl Coaching   Its year end and you're probably reviewing 2021s performance as you  prep and plan for next year, right?    For me at MKM, that looks like updating pricing, updating contracts, prepping for taxes, assessing profit/loss, etc. as I make a game plan for structure and services in 2022.   But I didn't start out in the first year (or the first 4!) knowing how to do this. Do you?   Do you know which areas of your business you need to focus on building next year? Do you know which steps to take to make those improvements?    As you know, revenue does NOT equal profit or take home pay in your business. So how do we grow more than just the gross revenue and actually make some money in 2022?   Thankfully, my friend Janey Stahl is a fractional CFO and she is an expert in just this type of thing.   She helps business owners see that sustainable profitability requires high performance in all areas of their business. And with her expertise, she guides them through the process of analyzing profit, offers, services, products, and time spend so that business owners can work smarter in the exact areas that will keep their business working profitably for years to come.   Right now, Janey is offering a free assessment to help you determine which area of your business could be improved in '22 and it's FREE! In this guide she walks through creating your unique business plan for next year and identify specific steps you should take to strengthen your business' foundation!    Go to janeystahl.com/smallminded to download the free assessment today! Follow for More Follow Small-Minded on Instagram and Facebook Follow Molly Knuth Media on Instagram and Facebook

LINEでDropbox Paperの共有リンクを開くと「Paperをダウンロード」ボタンが一番目立っているけど、「×」を押せばそのまま見続けられます。そういった、スマホでアプリに誘導されるダークパターンの話です。＝＝＝ 目次 ＝＝＝00:00:00 LINEだと見る人がスマホ前提00:01:38 ツイートをリンクで紹介するときの問題点00:04:34 LINEにリンクをブラウザで開く設定があった00:05:43 Dropbox Paperの共有リンクの問題点00:09:28 DropboxのPDFの共有リンクの問題点-------#アシカガCASTデジタル活用のヒントを与えられることを目指した・各回ワンテーマ（余計な近況報告ナシ）・5分くらいでさらっと聴けるポッドキャストを基本週5回（月〜金）配信しています。#ラジオ #ポッドキャスト■Twitterアカウントhttps://twitter.com/ashikagacastApple Podcast、Spotify、Google Podcastなどでも配信しています。■アシカガCAST on アシカガノオトhttp://bit.ly/ashikagacast_notion■アシカガノオトhttp://bit.ly/ashikaganote

What tasks are worth automating in our businesses? What tools shall we use? In this episode, we talk to Jimmy Rose, founder of Content Snare. You'll learn several automation ideas that can improve business processes, the differences between popular automation platforms, how to automate content and document collection from clients, and more.Visit our website for the detailed episode recap with key learnings.Content Snare — Jimmy's SaaS productZapier, Integromat, IFTTT — popular automation toolsCalendly, SavvyCal — scheduling toolsSuperhuman — a Gmail clientFront, Intercom — shared inbox toolsElgato Stream Deck — a tool for streamingTouch Portal — the Android app for controlsZapier Lead Score — an integration for scoring leadsZapier Email Parser — a built-in email parserZapier vs. Integromat YouTube videoTypeform — a popular form builderDropbox, Google Drive — popular cloud storage optionsClickUp, Monday.com — project management systemsNotion, Dropbox Paper — other collaboration toolsjimmyrose.me — Jimmy's website on automationFollow Jimmy on TwitterThanks for listening! If you found the episode useful, please spread the word about the show on Twitter mentioning @userlist, or leave us a review on iTunes.SponsorThis show is brought to you by Userlist — the best tool for sending onboarding emails and segmenting your SaaS users. To follow the best practices, download our free printable email planning worksheets at userlist.com/worksheets.

Today we have another episode of Better Done Than Perfect. Listen in as we talk with Jimmy Rose, founder of Content Snare. You'll learn several automation ideas that can improve business processes, the differences between popular automation platforms, how to automate content and document collection from clients, and more.Please head over to the episode page for the detailed recap and key takeaways.Show notesContent Snare — Jimmy's SaaS productZapier, Integromat, IFTTT — popular automation toolsCalendly, SavvyCal — scheduling toolsSuperhuman — a Gmail clientFront, Intercom — shared inbox toolsElgato Stream Deck — a tool for streamingTouch Portal — the Android app for controlsZapier Lead Score — an integration for scoring leadsZapier Email Parser — a built-in email parserZapier vs. Integromat YouTube videoTypeform — a popular form builderDropbox, Google Drive — popular cloud storage optionsClickUp, Monday.com — project management systemsNotion, Dropbox Paper — other collaboration toolsjimmyrose.me — Jimmy's website on automationFollow Jimmy on TwitterThanks for listening! If you found the episode useful, please spread the word about this new show on Twitter mentioning @userlist, or leave us a review on iTunes.SponsorThis show is brought to you by Userlist — the best tool for sending onboarding emails and segmenting your SaaS users. To follow the best practices, download our free printable email planning worksheets at userlist.com/worksheets.Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here.Leave a ReviewReviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.

This week, how to reset your whole productivity system during your summer holiday.    You can subscribe to this podcast on: Podbean | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | TUNEIN   Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin   The Ultimate Productivity Course Bundle Download the FREE Areas of Focus Workbook More about the Time Sector System The FREE Beginners Guide To Building Your Own COD System Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Episode 189 | Script Hello and welcome to episode 189 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein and I am your host for this show. From many of the emails I am receiving these days, it appears many of you have decided to do a productivity system summer reset. Now, I know how easy it is for our systems to become bloated and not run as efficiently as it perhaps should. SO, this week, the question I am answering is on how to do a complete reset when you have a few free days t focus on doing it. Before we get to the question, I just want to give you a heads up to say that my Ultimate Productivity Bundle of courses is possibly the best value bundle I have ever done. In that bundle, you get four of my top courses including the newly updated Time And Life Mastery. It also includes Your Digital Life 3.0 which on its own includes my updated Email Mastery course as well as The Ultimate Goal Planning course.  In total, you get six courses for less than $200!. If you were to buy all six courses individually, it would cost you $420. You're saving yourself $219!  So if you are planning on doing a productivity and time management reset over the summer break, then this bundle is THE bundle to buy. It's going to give you everything you need to create the best productivity system for you.  Full details on how to purchase this bundle are in the show notes. Okay, on with the show and that means it time to hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week's question. This week's question comes from Evan. Evan asks, hi Carl, I'm going on vacation in the last two weeks of July and I plan to take a few days to rebuild my whole system. I feel my current system is not working for me as well as it could. Do you have any tips on how to go about doing this?  Hi Evan, great question. Thank you for sending it in. Now, if you do have a few days to review and rebuild your whole system then my first tip is to start with the end in mind. What I mean by that is start from where you want to be in ten to twenty years' time.  You see, all great productivity and time management systems begin with where you want to end up, NOT where you are today. The stuff you do today won't matter very much in ten years' time—it won't matter very much next week.  When I see most people's task managers it is filled up with trivial little tasks that serve other people and do nothing to serve your own interests and goals. This is why so many people feel stressed out and overwhelmed. It's because they spend ninety percent of their days running around doing stuff for others.  Now that doesn't mean you need to become selfish. What it means is all those little tasks for your boss, your colleagues and customers and clients may well have to be done, but most of those tasks have come about because you said the worst thing you could say. You said “yes” without thinking about other, more important things. Things such as spending time with your family, your kids, and your elderly parents. Working on your health and fitness and preparing for those bigger projects that have much higher importance, but may not necessarily be as urgent.  Now the thing is, if you don't know what it is that you want, then it's much easier to say “yes” to requests from others. It keeps you busy and it makes you feel important. But that is the wrong way to build any productivity system. You need to turn that on its head and begin with what you want out of life. Begin with your longer-term goals and the things that are important to you. If you haven't downloaded my FREE areas of focus workbook yet, then I recommend you do so. You can get that from my downloads page on my website. That workbook will take you through the eight important areas of life we all have in common. Family and relationships, finances, career and business, health and fitness, spirituality, personal development, lifestyle and life experiences, and finally your purpose in life.  Once you know what these are, what each means to you individually and you have pulled out a few action steps to keep this in balance you are well on your way to building an effective, purpose-driven productivity system. These action steps are often very simple, yet we neglect them because we are exhausted from all the other, less important to us, tasks we commit ourselves to each day. The only thing you are fit to do when you get home at night is collapse on the sofa and complain about how exhausted you feel. In that state how are you ever going to have the energy to play with your kids, go out for a run, or to the gym?  Now it's easy to blame your boss or your company or your clients. But remember you said yes to doing these things. You did not draw a line in the sand and say “no, after 6pm my time is for my family and myself.” So, establish what is important to you and get the time required to work on those things blocked off in your calendar now. Make sure any tasks you need to complete that are related to your areas of focus and longer-term goals are in your task manager and set to recur whenever they need to recur.  From now on this time—the time you've blocked out on your calendar for these important things for you—is non-negotiable.  How do you think people like Dwayne Johnson, Terry Crews, Tina Turner, Sylvester Stallone, Frank Grillo, and Jennifer Aniston, despite their age, are in such fantastic shape? Because they have prioritised their exercise time and it is non-negotiable. They are not super-human or have any special genetics. They are human beings just like you and me. The difference is they know what they want and they make sure that every single day they do the work required to make what they want become a reality. It's fixed on their calendars and it just what they do.  Next up, when doing a reset is to go through your task manager and clean out any task you know you are not going to do. Now, What I mean by this is tasks such as “send Peter a thank you note for taking us out to dinner”, when that task has been sitting in your task manager for six months. It's too late. You didn't do it, so stop keeping these types of tasks around. Delete them.  There's also likely to be a lot of old project tasks hanging around that disappeared deep into your system that either you did and didn't check them off at the time, or were not necessary and the project was completed a long time ago. Clear these out too.  I would also suggest you look at your recurring areas of focus—for those of you using the Time Sector System—and refresh the wording of your tasks. As time goes by, we become numb to a lot of tasks and they don't inspire or excite us anymore. All you need to do is change the wording. Tasks like: “call mum and dad” can be changed to “catch up with mum and dad” and “do exercise” can be changed to “get out and exercise”. Doing this every three to four months, by the way, is a good habit to get into. It keeps your recurring tasks fresh and it can be fun thinking of inspiring ways to write these tasks. Now, take a look at your apps. Do you really need three notes apps and four cloud storage services? Probably not. Which of all these different apps could you get rid of? A lot of the issues I get in my coaching calls is where a person has inadvertently found themselves with multiple apps doing pretty much the same thing. For instance, do you really need to have Todoist AND Microsoft ToDo? Wouldn't it be easier to just bring everything into one app? There's less of a chance you would miss something if everything was in a single place.  How about your notes apps? I mean do you really need Dropbox Paper, Evernote, and Obsidian? Why not consolidate them all into one app? It'll make your life a lot simpler having everything in one place.  Now, I know a lot of people will say well I need to use Dropbox paper (or OneNote) for work and Obsidian for my personal life. And in theory, that sounds okay. But you may already have found that life is not so black and white. There's a lot of grey there too and you will find yourself wasting time trying to figure out where something should go.  Just use one app for each purpose. One calendar, One task manager, and one notes app. Seriously, you'll find life a lot simpler that way.  And that's really all you need do, Ethan. Begin with what you want, get that fixed into your system first so that those tasks and events become a priority over everything else. Once you have those in place, you will find your life is much better balanced and you will be a lot less stressed out and overwhelmed.  Clean out old, not longer required tasks, notes, and other digital stuff and consolidate as many apps as you can. The fewer apps you use the faster your whole system will become. Thank you for the question and thank you for listening too.  It just remains for me now to wish you all a very very productive week.   

Today’s guest is Mike Adams, Cofounder and CEO of Grain, a SaaS platform that records, transcribes, and shares highlights from Zoom video calls. Mike shares his history in the tech field, how he came to identify the need for a system like Grain, and how he founded it. He also mentions the many uses and benefits of the platform and its integrations with other platforms. As the founder of MissionU, which was shut down shortly after being acquired by WeWork, Mike talks through that process, the acquisition, and some of the valuable lessons he learned from its success and demise. Tuning in today, you’ll hear the pros and cons of income share agreements as vehicles to provide access to education and training instead of loans, and the importance of transparency. To find out more about Grain, how it makes money, and other insights from Mike as a successful three-time founder, make sure not to miss this episode! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:14] An introduction to three-time founder, Mike Adams.  [00:57] His history in tech and how he founded Grain. [02:14] What inspired Mike to come up with the concept for Grain. [04:02] Examples of use-cases of Grain, from interview settings and meetings between consultants and clients to general team knowledge.  [06:27] How Grain is different from similar products like Gong. [08:16] The benefits of using Grain with embeddable partners like Slack. [10:13] Other integrations, like Zapier, Dropbox Paper, Notion, Coda, and Miro, and the benefits of using embeddable media from Grain through them. [12:00] How Grain makes money through subscriptions.  [12:59] Why Mike exited MissionU: not every VC-backed business is appropriately VC-backed. [15:30] Why he didn’t actually make any money on the acquisition and why it was shut down shortly after.   [17:14] What he learned from the experience. [17:46] The pros and cons of income share agreements as vehicles to provide access to education and training instead of loans. [20:04] Mike’s history in education and training.  [21:22] Mike’s views on loans, financiers, and income share agreements in education and the importance of transparency. [26:20] Mike’s cheat code for healthy living: training for triathlons. [28:54] His favorite business tool and book. Resources From The Interview:   Grain Gong  Zoom Slack  Zapier  Dropbox Paper  Notion  Coda  Miro WeWork Strava Roam    Must read book: Inspired The Mom Test   Mike Adams Email — mike@grain.co Mike Adams Blog — mgadams.com   Leave Some Feedback:     What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review here Subscribe to Leveling Up on iTunes Get the non-iTunes RSS Feed     Connect with Eric Siu:      Growth Everywhere Single Grain Eric Siu on Twitter    

ブログやnoteではなく、ノートツールの文書共有で情報発信するのはどうかなという話です。Craftというよさそうなノートアプリについても取り上げています。■Craft - Create Amazing Documentshttps://www.craft.do/＝＝＝ 目次 ＝＝＝00:00:00 オープニング by ムスメ00:00:02 Craftというよさそうなノートアプリを見つけた00:00:50 CraftからWebで文書共有／パブリッシュできる00:01:21 Dropbox Paperで文書共有することが多い00:02:44 ブログやnoteじゃなく文書共有で情報発信という手も00:04:00 有料での文書共有の構想00:05:20 しめの言葉-------#アシカガCASTデジタル活用のヒントを与えられることを目指した・各回ワンテーマ（余計な近況報告ナシ）・5分くらいでさらっと聴けるポッドキャストを基本週5回（月〜金）配信しています。#ラジオ #ポッドキャスト■Twitterアカウントhttps://twitter.com/ashikagacast■Facebookページhttps://www.facebook.com/ashikagacast/■アシカガCAST コミュニティ on Spectrumhttps://spectrum.chat/castApple Podcast、Spotify、Google Podcast、YouTubeなどで配信しています。■Apple Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B7%E3%82%AB%E3%82%ACcast/id1471540766■Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7JhT3snKrz5TnWzwB7xOq6■Google Podcasthttps://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy85MjMxOTYwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz■YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj09Ciw-xGZheDKJ8NObJtwアシカガCASTを支援しよう

On episode 13 of the Creative Capes Podcast, we had a blast speaking to Elizabeth Gilmore, Creative Director of the brand studio at Dropbox. We are certain you've all heard of Dropbox! Dropbox originally started as a files storage service and now is more of a smart workspace with products like Dropbox Paper that allow teams to collaborate on creative projects wherever they are. In today’s conversation, Liz will share her thoughts on how to build strong brands, increase conversions and why authentic leadership is important for any creative team. We hope you enjoy our chat and if you want to see Ekaterina's and Liz's faces and matching lipsticks, head over to our Youtube Channel @futurelondonacademy.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Many websites these days have to deal with the reality of incorporating third-party scripts. These could be tracking scripts or analytics or monitoring, or even scripts that add explicit features to a site, such as chat. Regardless of the purpose, such scripts add complexity and overhead, and can interfere with the proper operation of the site. In this episode Ben Vinegar, VP of engineering at Sentry, joins the panel to discuss the complexities and implications of third-party scripts, both from the perspective of website developers, as well as from the perspective of the developers creating such scripts. Sponsors Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Audible.com CacheFly Panel AJ ONeal Aimee Knight Dan Shappir Charles Max Wood Special Guest Ben Vinegar Links ETAG Cookies https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/Using_custom_elements Picks Aimee https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers AJ AJQuery v2.0 https://webinstall.dev/sd Dropbox Paper Woody Zuill on Mob Programming and Influencing Change | Healthy Developer Interview #4 Charles Max Wood Scythe https://www.thecreepyline.com/ Ben Vinegar https://workers.cloudflare.com Follow JavaScript Jabber on Twitter: @JSJabber

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Many websites these days have to deal with the reality of incorporating third-party scripts. These could be tracking scripts or analytics or monitoring, or even scripts that add explicit features to a site, such as chat. Regardless of the purpose, such scripts add complexity and overhead, and can interfere with the proper operation of the site. In this episode Ben Vinegar, VP of engineering at Sentry, joins the panel to discuss the complexities and implications of third-party scripts, both from the perspective of website developers, as well as from the perspective of the developers creating such scripts. Sponsors Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Audible.com CacheFly Panel AJ ONeal Aimee Knight Dan Shappir Charles Max Wood Special Guest Ben Vinegar Links ETAG Cookies https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/Using_custom_elements Picks Aimee https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers AJ AJQuery v2.0 https://webinstall.dev/sd Dropbox Paper Woody Zuill on Mob Programming and Influencing Change | Healthy Developer Interview #4 Charles Max Wood Scythe https://www.thecreepyline.com/ Ben Vinegar https://workers.cloudflare.com Follow JavaScript Jabber on Twitter: @JSJabber

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Many websites these days have to deal with the reality of incorporating third-party scripts. These could be tracking scripts or analytics or monitoring, or even scripts that add explicit features to a site, such as chat. Regardless of the purpose, such scripts add complexity and overhead, and can interfere with the proper operation of the site. In this episode Ben Vinegar, VP of engineering at Sentry, joins the panel to discuss the complexities and implications of third-party scripts, both from the perspective of website developers, as well as from the perspective of the developers creating such scripts. Sponsors Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Audible.com CacheFly Panel AJ ONeal Aimee Knight Dan Shappir Charles Max Wood Special Guest Ben Vinegar Links ETAG Cookies https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/Using_custom_elements Picks Aimee https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers AJ AJQuery v2.0 https://webinstall.dev/sd Dropbox Paper Woody Zuill on Mob Programming and Influencing Change | Healthy Developer Interview #4 Charles Max Wood Scythe https://www.thecreepyline.com/ Ben Vinegar https://workers.cloudflare.com Follow JavaScript Jabber on Twitter: @JSJabber

Dropbox Paperの文書をお互いパソコンで見ながら電話すれば、Zoomを使わなくても十分なケースはあるよねと思いました。もちろんZoom会議のときもDropbox Paper文書の共有は便利です。＝＝＝ 目次 ＝＝＝00:00:00 オープニング by ムスメ00:00:03 Dropbox Paperを共有しながら電話で打合せ00:00:39 追加、編集した内容が即反映されて便利00:01:35 Google ドキュメントでもいいけどDropbox Paperが良い理由00:03:14 Zoomでのミーティング時もDropbox Paperを共有しながら00:05:27 しめの言葉-------#アシカガCASTデジタル活用のヒントを与えられることを目指した・各回ワンテーマ（余計な近況報告ナシ）・5分くらいでさらっと聴けるポッドキャストを基本週5回（月〜金）配信しています。#ラジオ #ポッドキャスト■Twitterアカウントhttps://twitter.com/ashikagacast■Facebookページhttps://www.facebook.com/ashikagacast/■アシカガCAST コミュニティ on Spectrumhttps://spectrum.chat/castApple Podcast、Spotify、Google Podcast、YouTubeなどで配信しています。■Apple Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B7%E3%82%AB%E3%82%ACcast/id1471540766■Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7JhT3snKrz5TnWzwB7xOq6■Google Podcasthttps://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy85MjMxOTYwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz■YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj09Ciw-xGZheDKJ8NObJtwアシカガCASTを支援しよう

My guest today is Alexis Lloyd. Alexis is VP of Product Design at Medium and co-founder of Ethical Futures Lab. Previously, she led design and innovation work at The New York Times, Axios, and Automattic. Alexis has been thinking about the future of media for a long time. In this conversation, we focus on the evolving ways we consume and produce media. Listen to the full conversation Download episode 44   Show notes Alexis Lloyd @alexislloyd on Twitter Research & Development at The New York Times Axios John Maeda (MAEDASTUDIO) Automattic Medium Ethical Futures Lab The future of news is not an article by Alexis Lloyd Ted Nelson Project Xanadu Quotebacks Link to Text Fragment Chrome extension The Informed Life Episode 6: Beck Tench on Tinderbox Tinderbox Zettelkasten Roam Research DEVONthink Building a digital garden by Tom Citchlow Pinterest Are.na Dropbox Paper Some show notes may include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commission for purchases made through these links. Read the full transcript Jorge: So, Alexis, welcome to the show. Alexis: Thank you. Thanks for having me. Jorge: I'm very excited to have you here. Can you please tell us about yourself? About Alexis Alexis: Sure! So, I've spent most of my career working on designing experiences for how people read and write and share information on the internet, broadly speaking. Thinking about things like, how do we create frameworks for people to learn, to communicate? How do you create clarity and understanding for people? And how do you create tools that give people superpowers to express themselves in the way that they want to. And I've done that both with one foot in the present, one foot in the future. I spent nearly a decade at the R&D lab at The New York Times, the last few years, co-leading that lab, which was really thinking about working within a media organization, but thinking about how emerging technology and emerging consumer behaviors… what kinds of new opportunities that might create for how people engage with media and information, looking like three to five years out. So that was doing a lot of research through making and working with a team of creative technologists, prototyping everything from screen-based interfaces to interactive environments, to data visualization, and then trying to pull that back to understand not just what's possible to make, but what's desirable to make. And then continuing from there, I did some more work in media organizations, was part of the kind of starting team of Axios, where I led design there and really helped take the founder's high-level vision and build out what those products would be like both for readers and for people who are writing internally. And then more recently I've done similar work around these information experiences in companies that have more of the DNA of tech companies. So, John Maeda reached out to me and invited me to come work with him at Automattic, which was a wonderful opportunity, loved working with John. I headed up design innovation there, so it was really thinking about, how do you take this kind of 15 year-old blogging platform and think about what does it mean to democratize publishing now, and how do we build upon that in new and interesting ways? And now I'm at Medium heading up product design there. So, obviously a lot of these things tie together. And then last year also started a side project with my partner called the Ethical Futures Lab, which is… came out of, we had worked together at the R&D lab at The Times and we were both missing some of that thread of looking outward, looking more speculatively, thinking about this idea of how do you build things that are good for people, good for society? How do you evaluate the possibilities and risks of emerging technologies in really tangible ways, so less big picture theoretical and more like, how do we actually design for these things? Like, what do you do to make a system that, you know… how do you build a database that works well for people? And so, we've been doing that for the past year and that's kind of where I'm at now. And I am just really excited to talk to you more, about information and how we design for it and how we think about that. Types of media Jorge: When you say information, you've been talking about Automattic and The New York Times and Medium and Axios. And I think of those as primarily text-based media. Is that a fair take? Alexis: Yes and no. I think that they lean towards text-based media. Certainly, at The Times we were thinking well beyond text, especially because we were thinking further out and doing a lot of experimentation around audio, video, and then also how does information make its way into environments that aren't screen-based and what does that look like? But yes, I would say that I spent a lot of time thinking about text and how you work with text and what that means and how you engage with it. Jorge: Yeah, I'm hoping that we'll dive a little bit into those distinctions because you spoke about two sides to this equation. One was the people consuming the information and the people producing the information, right? And you talked about designing tools that give the producers superpowers. So that's kind of one side of what I heard. And the other side is… and I don't know if you said this now, but I certainly have gotten this from your readings is providing the people who are, gosh, I don't know if I like the word consuming, but the people who are interacting with the information that someone else has produced, give them novel ways to become informed? Is that fair? Alexis: Yeah. Absolutely. Jorge: And my expectation would be that both sides of that equation would come at the information very differently if it was text versus video versus audio. Alexis: Absolutely. I think that's true. And I think there are also different things you can do with each of those media. Although I think there are also some interesting things that I'm seeing in the world that are starting to blur the distinctions between the two? I'm forgetting the name of it, but there is an app that allows you to basically… it automatically creates text transcripts from video, and then you can edit the video by editing the text. And so, it's kind of this cross-media manipulation that I think is super interesting. But historically, yes, I think that we think about those formats really differently and people are producing them in different ways and with different concerns in mind. Alexis: So, I think actually one of the things I'm interested in is, how do you blur some of those lines? So, maybe if you're creating something with audio that it automatically creates a text version that you can then edit and refine, or the same kind of thing with video, but thinking about ways that you can create more fluidity between media formats? Both for people who are creating them and also for people who are consuming them. So thinking about people who prefer different… some people love video, I personally am not a fan of video. Like I hate being forced into a linear format, and I like to be able to skim text and skip around. So, I think they are interesting ways that you can start to blur those lines a little and create more flexibility for both the way people share information and the way they absorb it. Articles and particles Jorge: Yeah, this very issue is one of the reasons why I wanted to speak with you. You posted an article on Medium about the granularity of information. I think that the distinction that you set up is between articles and particles. I was just going to ask you if you could elaborate on that, because I'm really interested in that distinction. Alexis: For sure. So that was actually a concept that we had come up with back in the R&D lab at The Times… it was about the future of news not being an article, but coining this term “particles,” which is that there are all these pieces of information – a quote, a piece of analysis, of fact, an idea – that live within this article construct, which has been kind of the atomic unit of news, largely because of historical constraints of print and how you produce journalism. But that we don't actually necessarily have all of those constraints — we still have some of them in terms of daily production schedules — but you can see a similar thing with the web where we've kind of been tied to the way that words and ideas work in print and in physical surfaces where we think of pages as these atomic units, and links being the bonds between those pages, and so really thinking about this idea of kind of particles and bonds, which is like you have ideas or concepts or quotes, and then you have bonds, which are the ways that you point to those or annotate them or contextualize them, or connect them with others. And I think that there are spaces where we can start to innovate on how that works. There's been thinking about this happening in the margins of the web for a long time. And so, I am hesitant to say this is like the big thing that's going to happen, because this conversation has been happening for a while. You know, I've pointed back to like Ted Nelson and Xanadu and like these old school web concepts that never quite made it. But I think we're starting to see some of these signals about people exploring other ways you might do this. Everything from Quotebacks, which is kind of interesting, which is just like a JavaScript library to be able to like easily pull and style and attribute, link back to quotes from other sources on the web, Text Fragments, which is a concept that Google developed for linking directly to pieces of text within a web page and they've proposed that to the W3C. There are all these kinds of weak signals that I think are interesting, in terms of thinking about how we engage with those underlying ideas, how do you think about maybe if not breaking apart, at least being able to engage in more granular ways with pages on the internet and thinking beyond that structure of pages and links. Jorge: I got the sense from your comments earlier that when you're on the consumer side of this equation, you prefer information that is scannable. Like, that doesn't force you to go through a strictly linear sequencing. And I can see that reflected in this distinction because breaking articles or breaking content down into particles that are brought together by bonds, I would expect would give you a lot of flexibility as to how you reconfigure those particles for different needs. Alexis: Exactly. So that's, what's super interesting about that is that when you were talking about, for people who are reading or consuming information, what are interesting ways to be able to engage with that information? Or even for people who are producing it, there's this whole thinking about how people annotate, how people remix, how people reassemble found ideas from elsewhere and then layer on top of them is a lot of the potential power of the internet that we've somewhat realized, but I think there's probably more there. And so, I think that there are these pieces of information that are locked within structures, that if we start to unlock those structures or loosen them, that it creates more possibilities for how people can engage with ideas and with each other. How granular should we get? Jorge: I had an interview last year on the show… I spoke with Beck Tench who was doing her work towards her postgraduate studies and using Tinderbox to implement Zettelkasten. Have you seen this way of notetaking? Alexis: Yeah, I think I have. This is kind of the Roam Research thing, right? Jorge: That's right. Yeah. And I've gotten into that whole way of working just because it is doing what you are talking about here, which is like breaking down information to more granular units that then are interconnected in ways that reveal perhaps new patterns, new connections. Alexis: Yeah. Have you actually been doing it? Because I'm fascinated by this and it also hurts my brain trying to think about how to implement it or approach it. I haven't quite gotten there yet, so I'm curious if you've actually worked with that in practice. Jorge: So, not with Roam, but I am implementing something very similar using DEVONthink on the Mac. Which is, gosh, it's the same thing as with Tinderbox… these are applications that are very hard to describe in a sentence because they are so open-ended, right? And the idea is like, I think it'd be fair to say that they're both note-taking or note-keeping apps, but they're designed to break you out of the kind of predetermined connections that happen when you're thinking linearly. They're set up to let you discover new connections between things and for that to work, you have to be granular in the way that you're capturing content. Alexis: Right, right. Do you find that you need to have an extra layer of process around how you capture ideas to make sure you're annotating and tagging things so that they can fit into that system? Jorge: Absolutely. And I've recently come across a wealth of writings on the subject and this is all so new to me that I can't tell you about the actual posts off the top of my head, but I will include them in the show notes. But there is an image that I heard that I think captures it very nicely. It's the phrase “digital garden.” And this idea that what you're doing is gardening is, I think, very apt because a garden, you know, needs tending. And these things need tending. And the thing is, and I feel like I'm being a little rambly here, but there's an actual question in here for you, which is, I find that this way of note-taking, this way of breaking down content is a very different way of thinking for me and a very useful, and… like I am finding value in doing this. I am also curious about how much value another person could get from my digital garden. It feels to me like for this to be of any use to anyone else, I must do the… turning the serendipitous connections between particles into something more linear that can then have a narrative. And I'm wondering if that's something that this notion of the tension between particles and… I don't know if to call it storytelling, but the fact that we… Alexis: Yeah. The narrative is how we convey ideas, but then the way that we capture what's interesting about those ideas may be much less linear or formal or necessarily clear to someone outside of our own heads, right? Jorge: Yeah, exactly. I'm wondering in your investigations around this, if you have found the optimal balance between the granularity of content and the point where it stops conveying narrative meaning? Is there a way to gauge that? Alexis: Yeah, I think that I wouldn't argue for content. I wouldn't say that content should be more granular in the way it's created. But I think that in the way it is to be extracted, annotated, remixed, and built upon, that the structure should afford more granularity than the original output. So, for example, to make that more concrete, I should be able to tell a story in a fairly linear way, but then — and I'm going to look at this through a machine lens and then through a human lens — so, through a machine lens, there should be ways for a machine to be able to understand underlying pieces within that structure and pull out the appropriate ones to be recombined or surfaced in other contexts. So, if you look at some of what Google search has been doing in terms of pulling out more structured data within documents or web pages that are surfaced within search results, I think that's an example of it. That's not how those pages are written, but you can start to train machines or start to structure that content in a way that it is more machine discoverable and understandable at a more granular level. And then for humans that I should be able to grab something, I should be able to highlight something or share it, annotate it, re-share it, and add layers on top of it. I should be able to take a bunch of different pieces and pull them together and build a narrative around that. So, I think it's less that I'm saying everything should be more granular, but that we should be able to like, understand and leverage and make use of the more granular pieces within traditional narrative structures. Building narrative Jorge: And that certainly corresponds to the way that I understand how tools like Roam work, right? And it's what I'm trying to do with the DEVONthink thing. And it feels to me like that reconfiguration of the particles, with its annotations and stuff like that, are meaningful to me. I'm wondering for something like a newspaper… you worked at The New York Times and The New York Times is the “paper of record,” right? Like, where the narratives are articulated where a large group of people can have broad agreement on what we think about things. And I'm wondering in this world where we can reconfigure narratives, because they've been made more “particular”… Alexis: I like that. I hadn't extended out the grammar of that. Jorge: The one issue that I have, that is still an open question for me, is what happens to narrative and what happens to argument? Because it is very hard, I think, to put across a compelling argument when things have been deconstructed, and then you've been given like a kit of parts for you to make your own meaning, you know? I think that that opens up a lot of interesting questions. Like I said, I'm super excited about experimenting with it for my own note taking, but like, I would not want The New York Times to work like that, because how would I make sense of what's going on? You know? How do I make sense of what's going on? Alexis: Well, and like I said, I don't think… I wouldn't argue for that either. I think that the thing that's interesting about particles, about these more granular ideas is not that is how information is disseminated, but that within the more traditional narrative, you can extract those things and then do something with them, whether it is to remix them and contextualize them within a different narrative, like I'm going to pull these five different quotes that I think make an interesting argument. And then I'm going to make that argument with those quotes as references, or, I'm going to create a collage of different media elements, or I'm going to find a historical timeline of every time this idea was referenced for the past 10 years or something like that. I think that it allows you to do more with the ideas within a narrative once that narrative is created. But I wouldn't argue that we shouldn't be creating the narratives. I think that we still very much need those. And I think what this allows us to do is to use those building blocks of previous narratives to build new ones. Jorge: Yeah, for sure. That's what I was trying to say earlier is like, I use it mostly as like grist for this mill that then will put out stuff that looks traditionally consumable, but it really is made very differently. The process of making connections between concepts has been taken out of the meat computer here and put into the silicon computer in a place that has a lot more memory than this one. Right? And better search capabilities for sure. Alexis: Yeah, that's what I wonder about with those. Like, I've approached that and I always have this idea… like, when I was in college, or high school, every semester, I would like try to find the perfect notebook system that was going to keep me perfectly organized, which of course like nothing has succeeded at because it's my brain! Like it's not this ideal state. It is what it is. And so, I feel like now I do this with software where I get really excited about tooling and I'm like, this is the thing that will make me able to keep track of everything and connect it all together in the way that I want. But then it requires so much effort to tend the thing, the structure that I've set up, that I end up sort of abandoning it and doing whatever's easiest, which might be like an array of disconnected Dropbox Paper docs, or opening up my Notes app. It's always like finding the thing that's the least friction in the moment, but then the thing that's the least friction in the moment doesn't lead to longer-term connections or understanding the way that I want. Designing for bonds Jorge: In this scenario where content is broken down into smaller particles that then come together through bonds, I would expect that the bonds matter a lot. And I'm wondering about the bonds and the degree to which we as designers, perhaps, if we're not specifying the linear narrative, perhaps there is work to be done on the bond side of the equation. And I'll be, concrete. I think that the metadata that we assign to the particles will likely have a big impact on the context in which those particles emerge, no? Alexis: Yes. I think that's true. And I think it's also, what are the affordances we create for doing that work of extracting, annotating, remixing, contextualizing. So, I think that, for example, if you look at Quotebacks, that is really privileging reference and attribution. So that's built into the system, to say that it has those ideals or values built into it. So, it has a value built into it than it is important to attribute and reference someone that you're quoting and to make it easy to get back to the original source material and that's built into the bond and the way that it's designed and literally the design of the thing that you embed in the page when you create a Quoteback. So, I agree. And I think if you look at something like Pinterest is kind of a weird example of this, right? But I can take images from anywhere and I can assemble them, and I can create, if not a narrative, at least a theme around those and share that with other people. But that's really privileging imagery. Whereas if you look at something like Arena, which does something similar, but it's not just privileging imagery, even though it is very visual, it's allowing that to really extend across different kinds of sources and webpages. And so I think your point about bonds is well taken, in that it's the tools that you create for being able to extract or remix or annotate or share and how those things get shared and with what kind of metadata, really changes the experience of what people do with it, or it leads people towards different outcomes based on what the defaults are. Designing those defaults is really important. Jorge: Yeah, absolutely. The way I talk about it usually is, I speak of the “tyranny of screens” because I find so many designers drawn to the allure of the final thing, the final artifact that people will be interacting with, when the real power in a lot of these experiences lies deeper, at the structural layer of whatever the system is that you're designing. Alexis: Absolutely. The future of media Jorge: You are someone who is thinking a lot about these issues and the future. And I'm wondering, what has you excited about the future of media? Alexis: I don't know that there's like a product out there or something like that, that I would point to and say, “this is the thing that's gotten me really excited.” I think we've gone through these very distinct phases of the internet and particularly the web as a medium for creation and consumption of media. And we had this kind of early open web, open internet that was like the first decade or so of the web, which had certain advantages. Like it had high bound for creativity. You could basically make whatever you wanted, if you had the skill to do it. If you could learn some HTML and CSS and could put anything out there, it was accessible to everyone. But it wasn't highly discoverable. Like, being able to know what was out there, how to get to it or who to connect to was not very easy. And then as a creator, it was theoretically accessible to anyone, but you needed to have some technical skills, you needed to set up your web hosting and you needed to do all this stuff to just say a thing on the internet, wasn't super easy. And then you've had the past like decade or so of platform-driven web that's where people are largely consuming and publishing within the bounds of the Facebooks and Instagrams and TikToks and Twitters of the world, which has radically increased the accessibility of publishing. It is extremely easy to say something on the internet and it's increased discoverability, so it's very easy to find who you're connected to, who you might want to be connected to, and to make sure you're getting all the things that you want from them. But it has kind of limited creativity in that everything is… a Facebook post looks like a Facebook post looks like a Facebook post, you know, it's all very same-y, which leads to, a) just a little bit dull, but also it leads to some context collapse where it flattens the texture of information and the way that people can say things. And the thing that I'm starting to see is, I'm starting to see people try to go out on their own more. I mean, I think you've seen it in the past few years in sort of the emergence of more podcasts and newsletters and things like that, where it comes back to building this more relational aspect between the people who are creating the people who are reading or listening to your work. And it's getting out of the algorithmic platform delivery, feeling of things. And so, I feel like there's a sense of people wanting to recapture some more independence and then also some more creativity. One of the things that we've been doing at Medium is building work creator tools that allow for more expressiveness, so that it's not all the same, so that you do start to create more context, and having more ways to kind of build relationships between readers and creators. So, I feel like, to answer your question, the thing I'm optimistic about is that we could be heading for a space where we start to build the best of both worlds, where we have a lot of the affordances the platforms have brought us in terms of ease of use, and in terms of the kind of network effects — although there obviously have been some not so positive network effects as well — but the ability to connect and the ability to easily create, while recapturing some of the kind of individuality, the creativity, context that we've lost somewhat in the last several years. And so, that's where I'm hopeful. I don't know that that's the world that will come to be, but that's my thread of what I hope for is that we can start to bring back some of the web that we lost while retaining the affordances of the newer technologies and platforms that we've been building on. Closing Jorge: Well, hear, hear! And I just want to mention that, well, you spoke of, your newsletter earlier, Ethical Futures Lab. So, I wanted to thank you for that, because I think that it is an example of that kind of writing. And I want to encourage folks listening to the show to sign up for the newsletter. Where can folks follow up with you other than the newsletter, which I've already plugged? Alexis: Yep. So, you can sign up for Ethical Futures Lab, at ethicalfutureslab.com. And then you can follow me on Twitter @AlexisLloyd or from my website, alexislloyd.com. Jorge: Well, fantastic. Thank you so much for being on the show, Alexis. Alexis: Thank you so much, Jorge!

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As Lyft’s VP of Engineering, Software at Level 5, Autonomous Vehicle Program, Anantha Kancherla has a birds-eye view on what it takes to make self-driving cars work in the real world. He previously worked on Windows at Microsoft focusing on DirectX, Graphics and UI; Facebook’s mobile Newsfeed and core mobile experiences; and led the Collaboration efforts at Dropbox involving launching Dropbox Paper as well as improving core collaboration functionality in Dropbox. He and Lukas dive into the challenges of working on large projects and how to approach breaking down a major project into pieces, tracking progress and addressing bugs. Check out Lyft’s Self-Driving Website: https://self-driving.lyft.com/ And this article on building the self-driving team at Lyft: https://medium.com/lyftlevel5/going-from-zero-to-sixty-building-lyfts-self-driving-software-team-1ac693800588 Follow Lyft Level 5 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LyftLevel5 Topics covered: 0:00 Sharp Knives 0:44 Introduction 1:07 Breaking down a big goal 8:15 Breaking down Metrics 10:50 Allocating Resources 12:40 Interventions 13:27 What part still has lots ofroom for improvement? 14:25 Various ways of deploying models 15:30 Rideshare 15:57 Infrastructure, updates 17:28 Model versioning 19:16 Model improvement goals 22:42 Unit testing 25:12 Interactions of models 26:30 Improvements in data vs models 29:50 finding the right data 30:38 Deploying models into production 32:17 Feature drift 34:20 When to file bug tickets 37:25 Processes and growth 40:56 Underrated aspect 42:34 Biggest challenges Visit our podcasts homepage for transcripts and more episodes! www.wandb.com/podcast

Dzisiaj, w 80 odcinku PDR macie pierwszą część minicyklu #toolbox - dzisiaj robię przegląd dostępnych na rynku 38 narzędzi pozwalających na współpracę zdalną. Są to whiteboardy, mindmapy, post-ity, canvasy i wiele innych. W trakcie przygotowywania tego materiału pomyślałem o Marcie Łukawskiej Daruk, która wraz ze swoją firmą Customer Matters zajmuje się m.in. design thinkingiem - ciekawe, czego Marta używa do swojej pracy :)? Link do samej prezentacji znajdziecie poniżej jak również linki do wszystkich narzędzi. #wykuwam #piotrekdobrarada #remoteonly #pracazdalna #toolbox #brainstorming #whiteboard #mindmapping #collaboration #postit Link do odcinka na YouTube https://youtu.be/_m5LdXXxBjo Moja strona internetowa https://piotr-konopka.pl Strona firmowa https://www.innothink.com.pl Mój LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/konopka Mój mail piotr.konopka@innothink.com.pl Moje podcasty https://podfollow.com/piotrek-dobra-rada/view Marta Łukawska Daruk LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukawska/ Customer Matters https://customermatters.pl/ Link do podcastu https://pod.fo/e/22342 SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/piotr-konopka-286414158/piotrek-dobra-rada-odc-80-toolbox-whiteboardy-i-brainstorming iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/piotrek-dobra-rada/id1513135345 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6bu6ZEMBKJAd2LMLr7ABKP Lista narzędzi A Web Whiteboard https://awwapp.com Batterii https://batterii.com Cardboard https://cardboardit.com Coggle https://coggle.it Conceptboard https://conceptboard.com Creately https://creately.com/ Dropbox Paper https://www.dropbox.com/paper Groupboard http://www.groupboard.com/products GroupMap https://www.groupmap.com IdeaBoardz http://www.ideaboardz.com iObeya http://www.iobeya.com JamBoard https://jamboard.google.com/ Koan https://www.koan.co/ Kumu https://kumu.io/ Limnu https://limnu.com Lino http://en.linoit.com Member Stream https://memberstream.com.au Microsoft Whiteboard https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-whiteboard/digital-whiteboard-app Milanote https://milanote.com/ Miro https://miro.com/ Mixed https://mixed.io Mural https://mural.co NoteApp https://noteapp.com Placit https://placeit.net/ Planable https://planable.io/ OrgVitals https://orgvitals.com Popplet http://www.popplet.com Post-it Plus App https://www.post-it.com/3M/en_US/post-it/ideas/plus-app Scribblar https://scribblar.com Scribble https://scribbletogether.com Stormboard https://stormboard.com Stormz https://stormz.me/en TeamUp Labs https://www.teamuplabs.com Twiddla https://www.twiddla.com Web Whiteboard https://webwhiteboard.com Whiteboard Fox https://whiteboardfox.com Workpuls www.workpuls.com Ziteboard https://ziteboard.com zipboard https://zipboard.co Inspirowała mnie strona https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/tools/#brainstorm

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On this solo episode of the podcast, I'm doing something a little different: I'm hosting a guest. Jeff Sheldon joins me on the program to talk about simplicity, productivity, and the story behind Analog. This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education. Established in 1962, UCI offers education for adult learners in Orange County. But thanks to technology, their courses and certification programs in various fields are now available worldwide and online for just about anyone who's interested. You can get 15% off of one (1) course by visiting https://ce.uci.edu/about/trending/toolkits.aspx?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=paidsocial&ut%20m_campaign=productivityist&utm_term=20WI20SP (http://ce.uci.edu/productivityist) then enter the promo code timecrafting. Make sure you take advantage of this limited time offer as it is only valid until July 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm. (Please note that this discount is for almost all of the certificate programs. The exceptions only include coding boot camps, international programs, teacher credentialing programs, and test prep courses.)Jeff Sheldon is the founder and designer of Ugmonk, a brand focused on creating and curating thoughtfully-designed products. Jeff launched Ugmonk in 2008 as a creative outlet to design products that he wanted to wear and use. Now over a decade later, Ugmonk continues to expand its collection of well-designed objects and clothing and attract a passionate following from around the globe. Jeff and I spend a lot of time talking about his Analog venture – which is something I've been experimenting with for several weeks as of this recording. We also talk about design, simplicity, the importance of flexibility, and much more. I've been a big fan of Jeff's work for some time and I'm glad I am able to share our conversation with you on this episode. Talking Points Jeff explains what he does... and what Ugmonk is (1:18) Did Jeff expect the Kickstarter campaign for Analog to blow up like this? (5:20) What made Jeff think that this product was useful for you... and that he should share it with the world? (7:08) Jeff talks about the Analog "card signals" (16:58) Jeff talks about his design study background and process (26:53) Quote "It makes you prioritize... okay I no longer can keep adding to my list because the hours in the day will run out before you can get to all them." - Jeff SheldonHelpful Links http://ugmonk.com/analog (Analog) https://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes (Lore) https://productivityist.com/podcast-83-aaron-mahnke/ (Episode 83: Overnight Success with Aaron Mahnke) https://productivityist.com/podcast213/ (Episode 213: The Bullet Journal Method with Ryder Carroll) https://productivityist.com/podcast203/ (Episode 203: The Evolution of Getting Things Done with David Allen) https://productivityist.com/podcast-73-cal-newport/ (Episode 73: Deep Work with Cal Newport) https://paper.dropbox.com/ (Dropbox Paper) https://hackernoon.com/dieter-rams-10-principles-of-good-design-e7790cc983e9 (Dieter Rams' 10 Principles of Good Design) https://ugmonk.com/ (Ugmonk) https://twitter.com/ugmonk (Jeff Sheldon on Twitter | @ugmonk) http://productivityist.com/fivedollars/ (Take my 30 Days of TimeCrafting fundamentals course) Want to discover some of the books mentioned on the podcast? https://www.scribd.com/g/9a8d8 (Check out Scribd, my reading app of choice.) Podcast Theme Song: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/eFDGyraN87 (Nothing at All by Fictions (courtesy of Epidemic Sound)) If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a rating and/or review wherever you listened to the episode. And if you want to have easy access to the archives of the show and ensure you don't miss the new episodes to come then subscribe to the podcast in the app you're using – or you can do so on a variety of podcast platforms by...

Ciò che avevamo sperato tutti non succedesse mai è diventato realtà proprio in questi giorni. La crescita esponenziale dei contagi in tutta la penisola ha costretto il governo ad emanare delle misure restrittive sempre più dure, per tutelare la salute di tutti. È nato anche l’hashtag #iorestoacasa per sensibilizzare la popolazione a non uscire, per fermare questo tremendo virus. Moltissime sono quindi le aziende che hanno chiuso i propri uffici e che hanno attivato lo Smart Working, ed è così che tanti lavoratori si sono trovati ad affrontare una nuova sfida, affacciandosi a questa innovativa modalità lavorativa. Ma cosa significa ciò nel concreto? Il lavoro da casa comporta la necessità di dover ripensare a come organizzare le proprie attività, come continuare a collaborare con i colleghi, come tenersi in contatto con i clienti, in generale come continuare ad essere produttivi. Gli strumenti tecnologici messi a disposizione diventano preziosi alleati, ed è Andrea Cristallini, communications manager di Google che ci spiega quali sono le risorse gratuite, a disposizione di tutti, che possiamo usare. La maggior parte di noi ha la mail di google, Gmail, ma quanti hanno mai esplorato l’intera suite testando i vari strumenti disponibili in modo totalmente gratuito? Basta davvero poco per scoprire che per prepare un preventivo per un cliente e confrontarmi con il mio collega posso semplicemente attivare la condivisione sul file: entrambi possiamo contemporaneamente apportare modifiche ed inserire commenti, evitando di rimbalzarci il file via mail con le innumerevoli correzioni. Questo è solo un esempio di come, alcuni semplici strumenti possono davvero fare la differenza, soprattutto quando tutto sembra difficile e nuovo. E non solo per il lavoro, ma anche per la vita quotidiana che stiamo vivendo, dove le distanze si sono allargate a dismisura e grazie ad una videochiamata con gli amici ci si può sentire un po’ meno soli. Ovviamente sono numerosi gli esempi di altri tool utilizzabili per l’office automation: da LibreOffice a Dropbox Paper, per citarne due, avete solo l’imbarazzo della scelta. Lasciare, anche se si spera solo per un breve periodo, le proprie abitudini, mette a disagio chiunque, ma questa può essere davvero l’occasione per sperimentare qualcosa di nuovo e magari scoprire che ciò che pensavamo non facesse per noi è in realtà una comodità a cui non potremo più rinunciare in futuro. Questo è il momento per sperimentare, sbagliare, imparare: siamo protetti dalle mura della nostra casa, i giudizi sono sospesi, non abbiamo gli occhi di nessuno puntati. Lanciamo il cuore oltre l’ostacolo e approfittiamone per prepararci tutti alla ripartenza. Abbiamo un’occasione unica di fronte a noi: sperimentare forzatamente quello che avremmo dovuto imparare a fare e che abbiamo spesso rifiutato. Ora il balzo in avanti può essere massivo. Uniti, per mano, possiamo farcela. Un ringraziamento particolare va allo staff di Radio Veronica One che ci ha permesso di produrre le puntate a Torino, scongiurando il rischio di dover interrompere la trasmissione.

Ciò che avevamo sperato tutti non succedesse mai è diventato realtà proprio in questi giorni. La crescita esponenziale dei contagi in tutta la penisola ha costretto il governo ad emanare delle misure restrittive sempre più dure, per tutelare la salute di tutti. È nato anche l’hashtag #iorestoacasa per sensibilizzare la popolazione a non uscire, per fermare questo tremendo virus. Moltissime sono quindi le aziende che hanno chiuso i propri uffici e che hanno attivato lo Smart Working, ed è così che tanti lavoratori si sono trovati ad affrontare una nuova sfida, affacciandosi a questa innovativa modalità lavorativa. Ma cosa significa ciò nel concreto? Il lavoro da casa comporta la necessità di dover ripensare a come organizzare le proprie attività, come continuare a collaborare con i colleghi, come tenersi in contatto con i clienti, in generale come continuare ad essere produttivi. Gli strumenti tecnologici messi a disposizione diventano preziosi alleati, ed è Andrea Cristallini, communications manager di Google che ci spiega quali sono le risorse gratuite, a disposizione di tutti, che possiamo usare. La maggior parte di noi ha la mail di google, Gmail, ma quanti hanno mai esplorato l’intera suite testando i vari strumenti disponibili in modo totalmente gratuito? Basta davvero poco per scoprire che per prepare un preventivo per un cliente e confrontarmi con il mio collega posso semplicemente attivare la condivisione sul file: entrambi possiamo contemporaneamente apportare modifiche ed inserire commenti, evitando di rimbalzarci il file via mail con le innumerevoli correzioni. Questo è solo un esempio di come, alcuni semplici strumenti possono davvero fare la differenza, soprattutto quando tutto sembra difficile e nuovo. E non solo per il lavoro, ma anche per la vita quotidiana che stiamo vivendo, dove le distanze si sono allargate a dismisura e grazie ad una videochiamata con gli amici ci si può sentire un po’ meno soli. Ovviamente sono numerosi gli esempi di altri tool utilizzabili per l’office automation: da LibreOffice a Dropbox Paper, per citarne due, avete solo l’imbarazzo della scelta. Lasciare, anche se si spera solo per un breve periodo, le proprie abitudini, mette a disagio chiunque, ma questa può essere davvero l’occasione per sperimentare qualcosa di nuovo e magari scoprire che ciò che pensavamo non facesse per noi è in realtà una comodità a cui non potremo più rinunciare in futuro. Questo è il momento per sperimentare, sbagliare, imparare: siamo protetti dalle mura della nostra casa, i giudizi sono sospesi, non abbiamo gli occhi di nessuno puntati. Lanciamo il cuore oltre l’ostacolo e approfittiamone per prepararci tutti alla ripartenza. Abbiamo un’occasione unica di fronte a noi: sperimentare forzatamente quello che avremmo dovuto imparare a fare e che abbiamo spesso rifiutato. Ora il balzo in avanti può essere massivo. Uniti, per mano, possiamo farcela. Un ringraziamento particolare va allo staff di Radio Veronica One che ci ha permesso di produrre le puntate a Torino, scongiurando il rischio di dover interrompere la trasmissione.

Ciò che avevamo sperato tutti non succedesse mai è diventato realtà proprio in questi giorni. La crescita esponenziale dei contagi in tutta la penisola ha costretto il governo ad emanare delle misure restrittive sempre più dure, per tutelare la salute di tutti. È nato anche l’hashtag #iorestoacasa per sensibilizzare la popolazione a non uscire, per fermare questo tremendo virus. Moltissime sono quindi le aziende che hanno chiuso i propri uffici e che hanno attivato lo Smart Working, ed è così che tanti lavoratori si sono trovati ad affrontare una nuova sfida, affacciandosi a questa innovativa modalità lavorativa. Ma cosa significa ciò nel concreto? Il lavoro da casa comporta la necessità di dover ripensare a come organizzare le proprie attività, come continuare a collaborare con i colleghi, come tenersi in contatto con i clienti, in generale come continuare ad essere produttivi. Gli strumenti tecnologici messi a disposizione diventano preziosi alleati, ed è Andrea Cristallini, communications manager di Google che ci spiega quali sono le risorse gratuite, a disposizione di tutti, che possiamo usare. La maggior parte di noi ha la mail di google, Gmail, ma quanti hanno mai esplorato l’intera suite testando i vari strumenti disponibili in modo totalmente gratuito? Basta davvero poco per scoprire che per prepare un preventivo per un cliente e confrontarmi con il mio collega posso semplicemente attivare la condivisione sul file: entrambi possiamo contemporaneamente apportare modifiche ed inserire commenti, evitando di rimbalzarci il file via mail con le innumerevoli correzioni. Questo è solo un esempio di come, alcuni semplici strumenti possono davvero fare la differenza, soprattutto quando tutto sembra difficile e nuovo. E non solo per il lavoro, ma anche per la vita quotidiana che stiamo vivendo, dove le distanze si sono allargate a dismisura e grazie ad una videochiamata con gli amici ci si può sentire un po’ meno soli. Ovviamente sono numerosi gli esempi di altri tool utilizzabili per l’office automation: da LibreOffice a Dropbox Paper, per citarne due, avete solo l’imbarazzo della scelta. Lasciare, anche se si spera solo per un breve periodo, le proprie abitudini, mette a disagio chiunque, ma questa può essere davvero l’occasione per sperimentare qualcosa di nuovo e magari scoprire che ciò che pensavamo non facesse per noi è in realtà una comodità a cui non potremo più rinunciare in futuro. Questo è il momento per sperimentare, sbagliare, imparare: siamo protetti dalle mura della nostra casa, i giudizi sono sospesi, non abbiamo gli occhi di nessuno puntati. Lanciamo il cuore oltre l’ostacolo e approfittiamone per prepararci tutti alla ripartenza. Abbiamo un’occasione unica di fronte a noi: sperimentare forzatamente quello che avremmo dovuto imparare a fare e che abbiamo spesso rifiutato. Ora il balzo in avanti può essere massivo. Uniti, per mano, possiamo farcela. Un ringraziamento particolare va allo staff di Radio Veronica One che ci ha permesso di produrre le puntate a Torino, scongiurando il rischio di dover interrompere la trasmissione.

In our last couple +1s, we talked about the science of gratitude and explored some tips on Robert Emmons’ #1 practice: Gratitude Journaling.   Today I want to chat about one of the distinctions I most loved from his book Gratitude Works!   He tells us: “Think about and then write down those aspects of your life that you are prone to take for granted. Instead, take them as granted.”   I just LOVE that distinction.    Ungrateful people tend to take things (and people!) for granted.    For example, we take for granted all of the astonishing modern benefits that make our lives possible: like a warm house, a car, a smartphone, the Internet and all the other magical marvels of modern life.   Robert tells us we’d be wise to move from taking people and things FOR GRANTED to seeing them AS GRANTED.   Let’s think about that for a moment longer.   We can take the amazing people and goodness in our lives FOR GRANTED or AS GRANTED.    It may not seem like a big deal, but it’s a REALLY big distinction.    Science says: We’d be wise to remember that NONE of it is guaranteed.    Making the shift to see that it’s ALL one big GIFT is at the heart of gratitude. In fact, it’s so important that we’re going to spend another moment on it tomorrow as we talk about the #1 obstacle to gratitude.   For now…   Let’s think of three things we normally take for granted and see if we can shift to seeing them “as granted.”   Here are three things pop up immediately for me…   #1: The computer on which I’m typing this.    It’s easy for me to take this for granted (and get frustrated when it inevitably doesn’t work perfectly). But MY GOODNESS!!! It’s a MIRACLE.    I can type on little black pieces of plastic and somehow (!) create letters that somehow (!) show up on the screen and on a website (Dropbox Paper) that I can edit and share with our team who can share it with you and with other Optimizers around the world. MIND BOGGLING.    I hereby commit to, for this moment, seeing all of this AS GRANTED to me (via countless people over countless iterations over countless generations…). Grateful wow.   #2: The house in which I’m typing this.    As I looked up from the screen out my office window at the mountain I hike every morning I thought of how easy it is to take the fact that I live in a safe, climate controlled house FOR GRANTED. That’s crazy. I’m so blessed (by so many people—including YOU) that it’s not even funny.    I shall now, for this moment, see it AS GRANTED to me. Thank you.   #3: The bottle from which I’m drinking fresh water.    I drink from a water bottle all day every day. Of course, it’s very easy to take that FOR GRANTED. But… Again… MY GOODNESS. That’s a miracle. Countless people around the world don’t have fresh water (gah) and ALL of us used to have to trek long distances to get our daily water (when we could find it).    I hereby, for this moment, commit to seeing this gift AS GRANTED. And, for that I am grateful.   Of course, we can go on all day every day on this. And STILL barely scratch the surface of all the benefits we receive.    THAT’S THE POINT.   And, that’s Today’s +1.   What three things can you shift from taking FOR GRANTED to AS GRANTED?   _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________

In our last couple +1s, we talked about the science of gratitude and explored some tips on Robert Emmons’ #1 practice: Gratitude Journaling.   Today I want to chat about one of the distinctions I most loved from his book Gratitude Works!   He tells us: “Think about and then write down those aspects of your life that you are prone to take for granted. Instead, take them as granted.”   I just LOVE that distinction.    Ungrateful people tend to take things (and people!) for granted.    For example, we take for granted all of the astonishing modern benefits that make our lives possible: like a warm house, a car, a smartphone, the Internet and all the other magical marvels of modern life.   Robert tells us we’d be wise to move from taking people and things FOR GRANTED to seeing them AS GRANTED.   Let’s think about that for a moment longer.   We can take the amazing people and goodness in our lives FOR GRANTED or AS GRANTED.    It may not seem like a big deal, but it’s a REALLY big distinction.    Science says: We’d be wise to remember that NONE of it is guaranteed.    Making the shift to see that it’s ALL one big GIFT is at the heart of gratitude. In fact, it’s so important that we’re going to spend another moment on it tomorrow as we talk about the #1 obstacle to gratitude.   For now…   Let’s think of three things we normally take for granted and see if we can shift to seeing them “as granted.”   Here are three things pop up immediately for me…   #1: The computer on which I’m typing this.    It’s easy for me to take this for granted (and get frustrated when it inevitably doesn’t work perfectly). But MY GOODNESS!!! It’s a MIRACLE.    I can type on little black pieces of plastic and somehow (!) create letters that somehow (!) show up on the screen and on a website (Dropbox Paper) that I can edit and share with our team who can share it with you and with other Optimizers around the world. MIND BOGGLING.    I hereby commit to, for this moment, seeing all of this AS GRANTED to me (via countless people over countless iterations over countless generations…). Grateful wow.   #2: The house in which I’m typing this.    As I looked up from the screen out my office window at the mountain I hike every morning I thought of how easy it is to take the fact that I live in a safe, climate controlled house FOR GRANTED. That’s crazy. I’m so blessed (by so many people—including YOU) that it’s not even funny.    I shall now, for this moment, see it AS GRANTED to me. Thank you.   #3: The bottle from which I’m drinking fresh water.    I drink from a water bottle all day every day. Of course, it’s very easy to take that FOR GRANTED. But… Again… MY GOODNESS. That’s a miracle. Countless people around the world don’t have fresh water (gah) and ALL of us used to have to trek long distances to get our daily water (when we could find it).    I hereby, for this moment, commit to seeing this gift AS GRANTED. And, for that I am grateful.   Of course, we can go on all day every day on this. And STILL barely scratch the surface of all the benefits we receive.    THAT’S THE POINT.   And, that’s Today’s +1.   What three things can you shift from taking FOR GRANTED to AS GRANTED?   _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________

Wie kann man sich lästige wiederkehrende Arbeit erleichtern? Automation ist das Zauberwort! Sowohl privat als auch im Business lassen sich viele Arbeitsstunden sparen, indem man Prozesse automatisiert oder standardisiert. Wie schon einfache Checklisten deinen Alltag einfach machen können und wie du komplexe Tools miteinander kombinierst, lernst du heute im Gründer Cafe… Gennante Tools: Zapier – http://zapier.com/ IFTTT – http://ifttt.com/ Hootsuite – https://hootsuite.com/ Buffer – http://buffer.com/ TickTick – https://www.ticktick.com/home Basecamp – https://basecamp.com/ Alexa Google Assistant ManageWP – http://managewp.com/ Debitoor – https://debitoor.com/ Lexoffice – https://www.lexoffice.de/ Gmail Notion – https://www.notion.so/ Dropbox Paper – https://paper.dropbox.com/ >>> Abonniere doch gerne das Gründer Café, damit Du keine Folge verpasst! Über eine Bewertung bei iTunes würden wir uns sehr freuen! Alle "Gründer Café" Folgen: https://anchor.fm/gruender-cafe Audio Podcast abonnieren: Spotify – http://bit.ly/GruenderCafeSpotify Apple – http://bit.ly/GruenderCafeApple Overcast – http://bit.ly/GruenderCafeOvercast Google – http://bit.ly/GruenderCafeGoogle Anchor – http://bit.ly/GruenderCafeAnchor Breaker – http://bit.ly/GruenderCafeBreaker RadioPublic – http://bit.ly/GruenderCafeRadioPublic

Tools to manage your tools: This week on Track Changes Paul and Rich discuss the best way to keep track of company communications and tools. Our verdict, an Intranet. We lay out what an Intranet actually is, what it should and could look like and why it’s so important in an age of using too many apps at once. We also make a pact to build a functional intranet in the next six months. Wish us luck!    Trello  Basecamp  Github  TriNet  Pingboard  Slack  Abacus  Airtable  Dropbox Paper  Whimsical  Jira  Pipedrive  Greenhouse  Dash for Slack  Google Drive  Zapier  Chartbeat  Adobe After Effects  Sketch  Apple Numbers 

Dropbox Paperでガントチャートが作れるタイムライン機能、カレンダー／メモボックスを作る機能を紹介しました。＝＝＝ 目次 ＝＝＝00:00:00 オープニング by ムスメ00:00:03 Dropbox Paperについて00:00:57 タイムライン（ガントチャート）機能00:02:15 カレンダーを作る機能00:04:08 メモボックスを作る機能00:05:04 しめの言葉-------#アシカガCASTデジタル活用のヒントを与えられることを目指した・各回ワンテーマ（余計な近況報告ナシ）・5分くらいでさらっと聴けるポッドキャストを基本週5回（月〜金）配信しています。■Twitterアカウントhttps://twitter.com/ashikagacast■Facebookページhttps://www.facebook.com/ashikagacast/■アシカガCAST コミュニティ on Spectrumhttps://spectrum.chat/castApple Podcast、Spotify、Google Podcast、YouTubeなどで配信しています。■Apple Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B7%E3%82%AB%E3%82%ACcast/id1471540766■Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7JhT3snKrz5TnWzwB7xOq6■Google Podcasthttps://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy85MjMxOTYwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz■YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj09Ciw-xGZheDKJ8NObJtwアシカガCASTを支援しよう

メールにワードファイルを添付するよりクラウドで文書を共有する方がいいよねということで、わたしのオススメのDropbox Paperによる共有と文書公開機能を解説しました。また、Evernote、Google ドキュメント、Slack、Facebookを使ってのネット上での文書公開についても紹介しています。＝＝＝ 目次 ＝＝＝00:00 オープニング by ムスメ00:03 メールにワードファイル添付せずクラウドを使おう01:12 Dropbox Paperの文書公開機能について02:36 Dropbox Paperの共有と公開の違い03:33 Evernote、Google ドキュメント、Slack、Facebookで文書共有05:28 しめの言葉05:36 質問などはTwitter、Facebookページで-------#アシカガCASTデジタル活用のヒントを与えられることを目指した・各回ワンテーマ（余計な近況報告ナシ）・5分くらいでさらっと聴けるポッドキャストを基本週5回（月〜金）配信しています。■Twitterアカウントhttps://twitter.com/ashikagacast■Facebookページhttps://www.facebook.com/ashikagacast/■アシカガCAST コミュニティ on Spectrumhttps://spectrum.chat/castApple Podcast、Spotify、Google Podcast、YouTubeなどで配信しています。■Apple Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B7%E3%82%AB%E3%82%ACcast/id1471540766■Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7JhT3snKrz5TnWzwB7xOq6■Google Podcasthttps://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy85MjMxOTYwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz■YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj09Ciw-xGZheDKJ8NObJtw

Zürich Facebook och saker det gör som vi inte gillar. Vi gillar egentligen inte Facebook som sådant heller, men det går i alla fall nedåt för dem Aquaman - det kan inte bli många BM där … SEMESTER! Vi diskuterar våra planer för sommaren Jocke lämnar in 15” MBP till Apple för batteribyte efter eldfara Så spelar man in Discord med Audacity på Linux Fredriks tangentbordssaga går vidare, inklusive köp av en riktigt fånig kabel Hjälp, mina GT smakar inte lika underbart längre! (Fast den senaste var bättre igen …) Jocke skruvar datorer i sändning Trädgårdsarbete - det är ett blomsterår i år. Allt växer och blommar så det knakar. Dropbox förändras, ingen gillar. Kan vi byta och klara oss bra ändå? En vecka kvar av DMZ-nyheter… Och Jocke är fortfarande nöjd med mindre skrivande, få smarta prylar och att klyva mer ved Var borde vi ha poddparty? Förslag välkomnas! Länkar Zürich Schweizerfranc Libra - Facebooks kryptovaluta Den hemska artikeln om hur det är att moderera Facebook * Artisten tidigare känd som Prince och hans symbol Facebookanvändandet minskar Aquaman DC Justie league Swamp Thing Alan Moore En eldfängd Macbook pro Audacity Pulseaudio ALSA - Advanced Linux sound architecture Sommarskuggan Ergodox EZ 40%-tangentbord KBD4x - modellen Tobias köpte Ortolinjära tangentbord Ergodox 40%-tangentbord - Planck EZ QMK Dvorak Svorak Cyberduck Mountain duck Trello Atlassian Dropbox paper Två nördar - en podcast. Fredrik Björeman och Joacim Melin diskuterar allt som gör livet värt att leva. Fullständig avsnittsinformation finns här: https://www.bjoremanmelin.se/podcast/avsnitt-172-bra-antiklimax.html.

For your practice to run smoothly you need systems. But why is creating & documenting systems so difficult for lawyers? Listen and discover the “magic” process. Below are links to resources or services that were discussed in this episode: The Power of a System, by John Fisher (downloadable PDF) Systems Brainstorming Worksheet(Based on Patrick Slaughter’s process) Dropbox Paper (collaborative document creation used by Patrick) Lawclerk.legal; (virtual assistance from lawyers) Hire an Esquire (virtual lawyer staffing) FancyHands; (online virtual assistance - general) GetMagic; (online virtual assistance - general) And here's a link with details about the next Operations Workshop that Patrick and I are doing in New Orleans. We'll be helping a small group of 10 lawyers systematize, automate, and outsource to the max.

How does your marketing speak to your audience? How can you carve out a truly distinctive voice in a sea of content and comms? Mike Stuart, Digital Content Editor at On, the world’s fastest growing running brand, joins us today to talk through the challenges of creating and maintaining a truly unique tone of voice. 1:32 Mike Stuart interview 18:50 Mike's top tools for sports marketing professionals * Draftin.com * Dropbox Paper  * Slack 20:40 Post-match review Music: Cool Rock Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 **MEET THE GUEST** Mike Stuart, Digital Content Editor at On [www.on-running.com](http://www.on-running.com) [www.twitter.com/michaelstuart](http://www.twitter.com/michaelstuart) [www.linkedin.com/in/mjstuart/](http://www.linkedin.com/in/mjstuart/) **MEET THE HOSTS** Neil Barraclough, Owner, Nota Bene Copywriting [www.notabenecopywriting.com](http://www.notabenecopywriting.com) [www.twitter.com/neilbarraclough](http://www.twitter.com/neilbarraclough) [www.linkedin.com/in/neilbarraclough/](http://www.linkedin.com/in/neilbarraclough/) James Gordon, Owner, JDG Sport [www.jdgsport.com](http://www.jdgsport.com) [www.twitter.com/jdgsport](http://www.twitter.com/jdgsport) [www.linkedin.com/in/jdgsport/](http://www.linkedin.com/in/jdgsport/)

Episode 1 of the Marketing Mashup Podcast - Chris Smith.Chris is a marketing professional who works for B2B marketing agency First Base. Chris loves being on the cutting edge of marketing, utilising the latest technology to bolster marketing efforts. He is also the founder of fitness brand ViviNation, who are using this technology to help build the brand.Timestamps02:00 - Using Google Drive across the board for any agency10:00 - Why Notion and Dropbox Paper are brilliant12:00 - Moving into Martech, why Chris loves Drift16:00 - Using Station as a browser replacement?18:00 - Why we love and use HubSpot. Is it a cult?22:00 - The wonder that is Grammarly26:00 - Why I am a huge fan of video & tools you can use30:00 - Wistia, Movavi, Lumen530:00 - Soapbox41:00 - Are forms dead?44:00 - Monzo & their marketing48:00 - Wrap up 

One of the best ways to ignite your own cozy FIRE is to live life as a lazy digital nomad. And all you need to do is browse the Internet and type things on your keyboard. We're lighting a FIRE the easy way on the ProcrastiN8r Podcast 2 weeks ago (lvl 11. I said 10 but it's 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record the whole thing) we talked about how to FIND your niche. Today we're looking at.... Top 10 Ways on how to WRITE CONTENT for your niche...with as little effort as possible Without further ado, let's BURN...right into it You can't just blog to everybody! Blogging to everybody is blogging to nobody. Find. Your. Niche. NEWSJACKING (or as I call it “Procrasi-logging) involves finding a relevant trending topic and repurposing it for your own blog 10. Look at Your Competition AppSumo Look up a topic, then see the top articles related to that keyword View social media share stats for Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit as well as Total Engagement. Evergreen score (how long after it's published is it still being shared?) Take a look at magazine websites (headlines, images, language/slang used) Subscribe to top content creators in your niche. To find blogs, get an RSS Reader like Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, or Flipboard Listen to podcasts. Watch YouTube and Twitch. 9. Read the News Search Google News for a topic related to your niche and look at the top articles. Go to a site like AllTop or Reddit to find topic specific news (niche specific) Look at an article, video, or podcasts as if you're in the room talking to them in a conversation. What can you add to the conversation? What insight is missing? Can you add a joke or something funny? 8.See What People Are Talking About and How They Are Engaging RedditList Type keyword related to niche, find relevant subreddits You could look at the official Reddit as well to find But Redditlist includes Subscriber rank (compared to other subreddits) and subscriber growth. Reddit list does NOT include all subreddits. Search relevant hashtags on Twitter, groups or Pages on Facebook, Pins on Pinterest, stories and posts on Instagram. See which posts are getting the most engagement and what type of emotional reaction the commenters are having. Write content that purposely sparks that emotion in your language (anger, sadness, joy, laughter, fear, etc.) Look at the comments of what people are saying on reddit, blog posts, and news sites. Pay attention to what's happening in the conversation. Are there points you agree with and could build upon with your own spin or maybe something you disagree with. 7. Find Out What People Are ASKING About What do people in your niche want to know? What are some common problems or concerns? Attend Livestreams and Webinars. Take notes not only on the content itself but What are people asking? What kind of comments are they saying? Look at FAQs of sites within your niche and build content answering them in your own words. (eg. There might be “How do I get rid of background noise like fans in my audio?” on a software like Audacity or Adobe Audition or “How do I promote my brand on Facebook” on a site related to online marketing or “How do I receive dividends?” on a stock exchange site/app) 6. Always C&P Participate in forums and Reddit discussions yourself. Comment on FB posts, YouTube videos, Instagram photos. Answer questions on Quora, ehow, or Yahoo Answers. Amazon and other shopping sites are great if your niche is more product focused; you can look at the reviews and asked questions. Copy and Paste your own comments into a note taking app like Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, Dropbox Paper, or Google Keep. Tag it with relevant tags and give it a title so you'll remember the gist of what you're saying at a glance. Include a link to the comments. Color code it to make it easy to find in the future Remember: it's important to ALWAYS copy & paste your comment BEFORE you even post it, maybe even create a note first and copy it from there. Because if someone deletes your comment or their post or changes the privacy settings or blocks you (or shuts down the website altogether if it's a forum/blog), it's gone FOREVER. You can't necessarily rely on the Web Archive.org. Keep your own records of the thing you say online related to your niche. You'll thank me later. 5. Save It For Later Take advantage of Pinterest's “secret boards” to collect ideas for blogs or craft projects in the future Similarly, you can save links, images, and videos on FB's Save for Later feature. You can change your privacy settings for a specific post you create so “Only You” can see it then just save it for later. You can Save Reddit posts and comments. Save articles you find on the web & you plan to re-write or read/comment on with the click of a button using a bookmarking app like Evernote Webclipper, Pocket, Pinboard, or Instapaper. You can also just use the built-in bookmarking feature in your browser, since nowadays you can signin to Chrome or FireFox or Edge or whatever and sync your bookmarks and history across multiple devices. 4. Chat it up! In your daily life, you talk to your friends and family about the things you like. Take note of the points made in the conversation or use the recording app on your phone. The note apps (google Keep, etc) also allows to save voice notes. Or heck, record the conversation (with permission, don't be a creep) on your phone. Start a forum topic and see where the discussion leads. Repurpose it for a blog post. When you reach enough notoriety and level of trust and authority, people will come to you with questions on social media. Actually reach out and talk to people. Hit them up in their DMs. Note the type of questions they're asking you. And if you're not established as a source of authority in your niche yet: Find people that are. Interview guests. Record it then transcribe it, using the autotranscibe tool Scribie. All you do is ask questions and they give answers. You don't even have to know anything. 3. Share It Write a quick blurb about a video or photo or infographic and share it as a post You can even re-word top rated comments already said on other sites. This is one of the laziest ways to create content. Find something already being liked and shared then make a comment similar to one that's also being liked/upvoted/gilded in your blog post. 2. Rinse & Repeat it Find a way to recycle old content, dig it back up and make it look a bit different by re-wording it. This works well if your in a niche that requires advice. You'll find yourself repeating the same advice over and over again. But that's okay, our brains learn from repeated information and stimuli. Use an online thesaurus to get suggestions for alternative words to use in your writing. You can also take a specific quote from an interview and do a deep dive/analysis of it. All that is is rewording what the person said in several different ways. The only thing you are doing is taking previously written or spoken words and rearranging them or replacing them with similar words. You simply express the content using different vocabulary. See what I did there? 1. Go Behind the Scenes Show pictures of your office, recording setup, gear, etc. Show things from your personally life (the game you're playing, the movie you're watching, the pizza you're eating, etc.) You should only do this on occasion. The site is about your niche and not your personal diary. 0. Talk about what you already talked about but do it a bit different Self explanatory. You get the point now. What to Avoid Writing: Verbatim (word for word) Fake News (unless that's your niche) Sounding boring How to Find Your Niche the Easy Way I said this episode was Lvl 10, but it's actually Lvl 11 and I'm too lazy to re-record and fix it. Meh whatever. You'll figure it out. Get Free Images for Your Blog: FreePik NeedPix

Si parla di Google Drive, Dropbox e Dropbox Paper, 1Blocker e di come estendere la dark mode di macOS anche a Safari.

En este podcast, enumeraré los rivales que he estado probando a lo largo del tiempo de Evernote (mi actual programa de edición de notas y textos simples) comentando mis impresiones sobre su uso. Los programas candidatos son: Notion, One Note, Google Keep, Google Docs, y por último Dropbox Paper.

mayuko さんをゲストに迎えて、YouTube, クリエイティビティ、WWDC, Markdown などについて話しました。 Show Notes mayuko - YouTube a day in the life of a software engineer - YouTube Patreon Zoom Intuit PayPal Mafia O'Reilly Velocity It's not quite a Mac mini, but it's my server Apple releases four new ads praising the Mac iPhone, iPad, Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Daring Fireball: The Talk Show Daring Fireball: Markdown Dropbox Paper Hello, GitHub | @natfriedman Electric scooters: San Francisco orders them off sidewalks and streets Lime Bird WWDC 2018 — The Developer Migration — Apple Jen Simmons: "I can't get past the opening video." WWDC 2018 — Source Code — Apple Rebuild: 202: AI versus AI (yuka) VidCon US

Ray rants about how “passionate” he becomes about the design of web apps, in particular their font choices, and Kandace tries to talk him down a bit. Also a bit of reflection on why Dropbox Paper is such an enjoyable product. Links: Ray’s Medium post about Dropbox Paper Dropbox Paper itself What is, and how … Continue reading "Design is All That Matters to Me"

What sort of work do you do day‐to‐day? Hailley executes on PR strategies, emails reporters interacting with Buffer, writes and publish blog content, records podcasts, works on campaigns related to Buffer culture. What is your daily to‐do list tool? And why? Todoist (https://todoist.com/) (iOS/Android/Mac/Windows/Web) (Both for personal and work tasks) How do you go about taking notes? Physical notebook (For quick notes) Dropbox Paper (https://www.dropbox.com/paper) (Android/iOS) (For long-term notes) Do you use a certain tool for tracking projects? Or do you solely use a task list? Dropbox Paper (https://www.dropbox.com/paper) (Android/iOS) for collaboration Trello (https://trello.com) (iOS/Android/Windows) (For high level overviews) What hardware do you use for work? (phone, laptop, pc) iPhone 7 (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-7) MacBook (https://www.apple.com/uk/macbook/) Magic Trackpad (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ2R2LL/A/magic-trackpad-2) Yeti Blue Microphone (http://www.bluedesigns.com/products/yeti/) What are your 3 favoured apps for getting the work done? (Eg. marketing, designing) Todoist (https://todoist.com/) (iOS/Android/Mac/Windows/Web) Dropbox Paper (https://www.dropbox.com/paper) (Android/iOS) Trello (https://trello.com) (iOS/Android/Windows) What are your team communication tools? Discourse (https://www.discourse.org) Slack (https://slack.com/) (iOS/Android/Windows/Mac) Zoom (https://zoom.us/) Twist (https://twistapp.com/) (iOS/Android/Mac/Windows) What app do you use for handling emails? Gmail (https://www.google.com/gmail/about/) Inbox by Gmail (https://www.google.com/inbox/) (Android/iOS) What's your planning process? How do you plan for the week or month ahead? Plans on Monday morning, adds all the tasks in Todoist prioritizing them with a look at the content calendar. Do you use any analog/offline processes? Fitbit (https://www.fitbit.com/) (For reminders to move every hour) Plans things for the end of the day to unplug and treats the laptop has her office. Find Hailley: Twitter - @hailleymari (https://twitter.com/hailleymari) Website - here (http://www.hailleygriffis.com/) Podcast - MakeWorkWork (https://makeworkwork.promogogo.com/poster/makeworkwork/8576f051d6174166) Special Guest: Hailley Griffis.

Episode #04 | Tools They Use GUEST: Alex Muench from Doist (Creators of Todoist & Twist) Firstly, welcome to the Tools They Use podcast, a brand-new addition to helping you to create a productive lifestyle. With hundreds of podcasts covering advice around productivity and getting things done, Tools They Use takes a difference stance by interviewing creators, professionals and teams about what tools and apps they use on a daily basis, inside and outside of work to accomplish their goals. Today’s guest is Alex Muench, product designer at Doist, the company behind Todoist and Twist.Alex works remotely from Germany and runs an amazing Dribble profile where he shares all his work as a product designer. Excited for this one! SHOW NOTES AVAILABLE HERE: http://docdro.id/5H94YJc

Episode 3 | Tools They Use GUEST: Ashley Read at Buffer This episode of Tools They Use is brought to you by Ash Read, freelance strategist and writer at Buffer. Ash created contents for the likes of Buzzfeed, Lifehacker, Entrepreneur and more. He's fascinated by storytelling, entrepreneurship, and the role technology and digital communication play in our everyday lives. Please, enjoy this episode and be sure to check out the show notes below. SHOW NOTES PDF: http://docdro.id/Nt2Xace With all links mentioned by Ash. ALL SHOW NOTES HERE: http://keepproductive.com/tools-they-use What sort of work do you do day‐to‐day? Writing and editing content, research elements planning or optimizing. What is your daily to‐do list tool? And why? Pen and paper (For daily to do lists and to plan the day by the hour) Google Calendar (Android/iOS) (For time blocking) How do you go about taking notes? Apple Notes (iOS/Mac) (For notes on the go) Google Docs (For notes and content creation) WordPress (For writing on Buffer) Pen and paper (For personal notes) What do you use when it comes to organising your calendar? Google Calendar (Android/iOS) Apple Calendar (Mac/iOS) (For the native iPhone widget) Do you use a certain tool for tracking projects? Or do you solely use a task list? Paper (Android/iOS) (For sharing notes and projects at Buffer) Dropbox (Android/iOS/Windows/Mac) (For file storage) What hardware do you use for work? (phone, laptop, pc) iPhone 7 Plus 21.5-inch iMac MacBook What are your 3 favoured apps for getting the work done? (Eg. marketing, designing) Sketch WordPress Ghost (For personal blogging) Buffer (For social media management) What are your team communication tools? Slack (iOS/Android/Windows/Mac) Discourse (For conversations that aren’t as demanding as Slack) What app do you use for handling emails? Gmail (From the browser) Apple Mail (On mobile) What’s your planning process? How do you plan for the week or month ahead? Monthly goals planning format Buffer content calendar on Trello (iOS/Android/Windows) Yearly content goals on Paper Any of other notable apps you do like to mention that you use to get things done? CloudApp Spotify VPN software for coffee shops Do you use any analog/offline processes? A notebook for personal notes. Find Ash: Twitter - here Buffer Blog - here

Panel:  Charles  Max Wood John Papa Alyssa Nicoll Ward Bell Shai Reznik Special Guests: Austin McDaniel In the episode of Adventures in Angular the panel discusses Reducing Boilerplate of Redux/NGRX Patterns in Angular with Austin McDaniel. Austin is an Angular Team Member, he contributes to the material project, is a panelist on the Angular Air Podcast, and much more. Austin talks about the boilerplate issues of Redux/NGRX Patterns in Angular. Austin and the panel discuss the fixes for these once difficult actions with NGRX actions. This is a great episode to understand the reduced boilerplate and libraries. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: •Issues with boilerplate Libraries Redux patter for Angular - Advantages NGRX Complexities If you are using and injectable service More resources at: AiA Episode 169 with Jesse Sanders  Question what we are saying! Make sure it is solving problems Store systems Writing an API Command Query Operation Switch Statements Redux Actions Passing String constants Actions and Type Passing the action class Reducers Keeping the project portable Relations Code Generator •and much more! Links:   http://amcdnl.com Angular Air Podcast @amcdnl github.com/amcdnl https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/aia-169-ngrx-entities-jesse-sanders https://github.com/amcdnl/ngrx-actions Picks:   Charles Sling TV Roku Express Alyssa My Fitness Pal DropBox Paper Ward Last Pencil Factory John NGX Charts  Five Things Web Show  Shai Getting Things Done  Workflowy Karma Maca Reporter Austin Apollo Graph QL  StoryBook 

Panel:  Charles  Max Wood John Papa Alyssa Nicoll Ward Bell Shai Reznik Special Guests: Austin McDaniel In the episode of Adventures in Angular the panel discusses Reducing Boilerplate of Redux/NGRX Patterns in Angular with Austin McDaniel. Austin is an Angular Team Member, he contributes to the material project, is a panelist on the Angular Air Podcast, and much more. Austin talks about the boilerplate issues of Redux/NGRX Patterns in Angular. Austin and the panel discuss the fixes for these once difficult actions with NGRX actions. This is a great episode to understand the reduced boilerplate and libraries. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: •Issues with boilerplate Libraries Redux patter for Angular - Advantages NGRX Complexities If you are using and injectable service More resources at: AiA Episode 169 with Jesse Sanders  Question what we are saying! Make sure it is solving problems Store systems Writing an API Command Query Operation Switch Statements Redux Actions Passing String constants Actions and Type Passing the action class Reducers Keeping the project portable Relations Code Generator •and much more! Links:   http://amcdnl.com Angular Air Podcast @amcdnl github.com/amcdnl https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/aia-169-ngrx-entities-jesse-sanders https://github.com/amcdnl/ngrx-actions Picks:   Charles Sling TV Roku Express Alyssa My Fitness Pal DropBox Paper Ward Last Pencil Factory John NGX Charts  Five Things Web Show  Shai Getting Things Done  Workflowy Karma Maca Reporter Austin Apollo Graph QL  StoryBook 

Panel:  Charles  Max Wood John Papa Alyssa Nicoll Ward Bell Shai Reznik Special Guests: Austin McDaniel In the episode of Adventures in Angular the panel discusses Reducing Boilerplate of Redux/NGRX Patterns in Angular with Austin McDaniel. Austin is an Angular Team Member, he contributes to the material project, is a panelist on the Angular Air Podcast, and much more. Austin talks about the boilerplate issues of Redux/NGRX Patterns in Angular. Austin and the panel discuss the fixes for these once difficult actions with NGRX actions. This is a great episode to understand the reduced boilerplate and libraries. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: •Issues with boilerplate Libraries Redux patter for Angular - Advantages NGRX Complexities If you are using and injectable service More resources at: AiA Episode 169 with Jesse Sanders  Question what we are saying! Make sure it is solving problems Store systems Writing an API Command Query Operation Switch Statements Redux Actions Passing String constants Actions and Type Passing the action class Reducers Keeping the project portable Relations Code Generator •and much more! Links:   http://amcdnl.com Angular Air Podcast @amcdnl github.com/amcdnl https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/aia-169-ngrx-entities-jesse-sanders https://github.com/amcdnl/ngrx-actions Picks:   Charles Sling TV Roku Express Alyssa My Fitness Pal DropBox Paper Ward Last Pencil Factory John NGX Charts  Five Things Web Show  Shai Getting Things Done  Workflowy Karma Maca Reporter Austin Apollo Graph QL  StoryBook 

Whether you’re at a brand-new startup, or launching a fresh offering under the umbrella of a name brand, you only get one chance to make a first impression with your product. Jenna Crane, product marketing lead for Dropbox Paper, shares why alignment with the product team from day one and a laser focus on user research are key to successfully bringing a new offering to market.

Nogle gange er det godt at sidde alene og arbejde, måske endda hjemme - andre gange giver det ny inspiration og motivation at være en del af et hold på et kontor. Kim Hornung forsøger at få det bedste fra begge verdener i sin nuværende situation som selvstændig WordPress-udvikler i et kontorfællesskab. Kim har også i en periode været konsulent indenfor produktivitet, personlige arbejdsmetoder og især email-rutiner - og i denne udgave af work.flow giver han masser af gode råd om hvordan man får styr på sin indbakke, sine notifikationer og sin emsige chefs vane med at sende emails hele tiden… Links KimHornung - Kims eget site KeepMoving - Kims WordPress-firma Wordpress - gratis-CMS, der ligger under flere end 60 mio websites Noteplan - kombo af noter, kalender og todo-liste Notion.so - wiki, samarbejde og huskelister Taskpaper - tekstbaseret todo-liste og projektstyring The Brain - gammelt projekt som forsøger at lave mindmap-lignende overblik over alle filer og noter og så videre Dropbox Paper - Google Doc-alternativ for Dropbox-brugere De tre tips Spotlight på Mac - også til at åbne programmer, dokumenter, etc WeekCal - kalenderapp til iOS Til de kreative med personlige projekter: “Do the Work” af Steven Pressfield

It's time to dig into the mechanics a bit. First, technology. How much is too much, or is there such a thing? Paul and Dave discuss. Then a bit into organizing shows for the best chances at success, even when you don't get to rehearse as much as you'd like... or at all. Finally, listener David (no relation!) asks about earplugs... and Dave and Paul have answers! Chapters/Timestamps: 00:00:00 GigGab 139 – Monday, November 6, 2017 00:00:35 Lots of technology and polish can make a solo or duo 00:02:28 TC Helicon Ditto Mic Looper 00:06:35 MadHaus Last Week 00:10:17 Organization, understanding the flow 00:12:11 Dropbox Paper – a bandleader’s friend 00:14:20 How can a leader help a drummer? 00:18:57 Big Ears are the key to success 00:22:26 Charts can be super-helpful 00:25:36 Montgomery Ward and Sears & Roebuck 00:30:48 David-Which earplugs to use? Musician’s Earplugs Decibullz Etymotic ER20 Earplugs NU Ear Plugs EarGard DUBS Earplugs 00:38:40 GG 139 Outtro

Ask Michael - the productivity guy, is a series of videos on Youtube (that we also put as an audio here) where Michael Sliwinski, the CEO of Nozbe time and project management app answers your most burning questions. Thy best way to ask question is to add a comment below corresponding video on Nozbe YouTube channel. Tools mentioned: - Github: https://github.com - Confluence: https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence - Dropbox Paper: https://paper.dropbox.com - Notion: https://www.notion.so Links: - Watch this podcast as a video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rYELDKmS8 - More about Nozbe: https://nozbe.com

In this episode we talk about upcoming Google Chrome warnings that will be displayed for website forms not protected by SSLs and a little about Dropbox Paper. BBP : Episode 52 - Insecure Website Warnings & Dropbox Paper Updates Dropbox Paper has released some updates Users can now preview Dropbox Paper docuemnts before opening them. Very helpful for admins or project managers. Usera can also now create folders on mobile devives and move Paper documents to them. Great for those of us who work on phones or tablets a good portion of the time. And finally, users can now delete files on their mobile devices. A little less useful for many of us IT guys and creatives who NEVER delete anything, just archive it.  Google Chrome will now start displaying a "Not Secure" warning on webpages not protected by an SSL and including a form asking for passwords or credit card information. This means that if your site requires or requests any of this, the warnings will be shown to potential clients and other visitors.  I believe this is an incremental step towards Chrome requiring all sites to have SSLs in the very near future, with the next step probably being that ANY form will need to be protected by an SSL. This is a great time for you to get ahead of the inbound wave by activating an SSL on your site as soon as possible to take advantage of the extra search weight assigned by Google for sites with SSLs. It's also a great chance to take a look at current forms on your website and maybe change them to ask additional questions you may have ommitted due to not having and SSL in the past.   Keep in mind there are some obstacles beyond cost to purchasing and installing an SSL. More to come on that in a future episode.   Don’t forget to send us any suggestions for apps to review or people to interview. And subscribe to the BeBizzy Break Podcast on iTunes and Stitcher Radio.  And as always, leave the technical stuff to us!

Our first white paper review, starting with "what is digital, and what are/should enterprises do about it. See the detailed notes on it, either in the attached PDF, or in Dropbox Paper.You should be able to find your members only RSS feed and add it to your podcast listener.First, thanks to our initial, super-fan handful of members who'll be getting this.Second, tell us if you like this show, format, and, if so, some studies/papers you'd like us to go over.Third, if you can help us promote this, and grow membership (or at least envy that you get access to!), that'd be awesome. Feel free to email the PDF around, a link the notes, or even the MP3 if you want to be a bit of a privateer.

Our first white paper review, starting with "what is digital, and what are/should enterprises do about it. See the detailed notes on it, either in the attached PDF, or in Dropbox Paper.You should be able to find your members only RSS feed and add it to your podcast listener.First, thanks to our initial, super-fan handful of members who'll be getting this.Second, tell us if you like this show, format, and, if so, some studies/papers you'd like us to go over.Third, if you can help us promote this, and grow membership (or at least envy that you get access to!), that'd be awesome. Feel free to email the PDF around, a link the notes, or even the MP3 if you want to be a bit of a privateer.

Our first white paper review, starting with "what is digital, and what are/should enterprises do about it. See the detailed notes on it, either in the attached PDF, or in Dropbox Paper.You should be able to find your members only RSS feed and add it to your podcast listener.First, thanks to our initial, super-fan handful of members who'll be getting this.Second, tell us if you like this show, format, and, if so, some studies/papers you'd like us to go over.Third, if you can help us promote this, and grow membership (or at least envy that you get access to!), that'd be awesome. Feel free to email the PDF around, a link the notes, or even the MP3 if you want to be a bit of a privateer.

Instagram added the ability to include up to 10 photos in one share. Kimba explains how to do it. Cloud storage has been around for a while now, and Dropbox was one of the first players in this market. Lately, they’ve added some new features that bring even more value to their service. We give […]

Oggi vi parlo di Paper, una app che Dropbox ha annunciato nel 2015, ha lanciato in public beta nel 2016 e finalmente ha rilasciato in versione stabile a gennaio di quest’anno.E di che si tratta?In molti lo definiscono un competitor di Google Docs, in realtà è molto più minimalista. Non si presenta come come un word processor classico con la barra degli strumenti in alto, piuttosto è simile all’editor inline delle note di Facebook o di Medium. Quindi quando selezioniamo del testo appare una barra per la formattazione: c’è il grassetto, il barrato, i tag di intestazione H1 e H2, gli elenchi numerati e puntati, le caselle da spuntare. In più ci sono i pulsanti per inserire un link o per aggiungere un commento. Per tutte queste azioni, e anche per quelle che nella barra non ci sono, tipo l’intestazione H3 o il corsivo, ci sono le scorciatoie da tastiera.Continua su:http://www.MERITA.BIZ/96### PODCAST ###HTTP://www.MERITA.BIZ/PODCAST Sottoscrivi il podcast su: iTunes: http://j.mp/MERITA-ITUNES Stitcher:http://j.mp/MERITA-STITCHER Spreaker:http://j.mp/MERITA-SPREAKER Soundcloud:http://j.mp/MERITA-SOUNDCLOUD ##### WWW.MERITA.BIZ #####

Dropbox incursiona en el desarrollo de documentos colaborativos con su aplicativo Paper, una herramienta que -por lo visto- se proyecta como alternativa a Google Docs, y que puede ser de mucha utilidad para profesionales de la comunicación que desarrollan trabajos periodísticos en equipo o para quienes coordinan proyectos a distancia.Cuando realizas trabajos de este tipo, el manejo de los archivos se convierte en algo muy tedioso. Es común que se confundan las versiones de cada integrante porque cada quien nombra sus documentos a su modo. Peor aún cuando los tiempos en el desarrollo de la tarea se cruzan, lo cual puede afectar de manera considerable a la productividad y eficiencia del equipo.Definitivamente, trabajar en la nube está de moda, si has usado DropBox y sabes los bien que está pensado para facilitarnos la vida, sabrás de antemano que su nuevo servicio denominado "Paper", llega como la mejor solución para tareas colaborativas. Cuenta con un diseño minimalista -también a la moda- que nos permite interactuar con los integrantes del equipo, que a su vez, pueden hacer seguimiento desde cualquier navegador o desde su smartphone gracias la app disponible para iOS y Android.Revisa la publicación original de @Socialtegia aquí: http://bit.ly/2nbhqZZ

Dropbox incursiona en el desarrollo de documentos colaborativos con su aplicativo Paper, una herramienta que -por lo visto- se proyecta como alternativa a Google Docs, y que puede ser de mucha utilidad para profesionales de la comunicación que desarrollan trabajos periodísticos en equipo o para quienes coordinan proyectos a distancia.Cuando realizas trabajos de este tipo, el manejo de los archivos se convierte en algo muy tedioso. Es común que se confundan las versiones de cada integrante porque cada quien nombra sus documentos a su modo. Peor aún cuando los tiempos en el desarrollo de la tarea se cruzan, lo cual puede afectar de manera considerable a la productividad y eficiencia del equipo.Definitivamente, trabajar en la nube está de moda, si has usado DropBox y sabes los bien que está pensado para facilitarnos la vida, sabrás de antemano que su nuevo servicio denominado "Paper", llega como la mejor solución para tareas colaborativas. Cuenta con un diseño minimalista -también a la moda- que nos permite interactuar con los integrantes del equipo, que a su vez, pueden hacer seguimiento desde cualquier navegador o desde su smartphone gracias la app disponible para iOS y Android.Revisa la publicación original de @Socialtegia aquí: http://bit.ly/2nbhqZZ

Si parla di 3 alternative a BetterSnapTool, di Dropbox Paper e del setup di Federico (e del suo nuovo schermo 4K), di un paio di giochini per iPhone e del jailbreak.

In this episode, we discuss quotes and CPQ, using font-end frameworks with Salesforce, Chris Rock's controversial routine at the Salesforce Annual Sales Kick-off Meeting, IsNull vs IsBlank, leaving code better than how you found it, and Google's Spanner database service. Studio Neat Ice Kit Wintersmith's Ice Baller Chris Rock Draws Laughs, Controversy at Salesforce Sales Meeting Dropbox Paper Salesforce launches Quip Connect app for Sales and Service Clouds Introducing Cloud Spanner: a global database service for mission-critical applications CLOUD SPANNER Why does it cost 20 times as much to protect Mark Zuckerberg as Tim Cook?

Marc und Michael waren wieder dabei und sprechen mit MacSnider über AirPods und andere BT Kopfhörer, Bugs in iOS, Dropbox Paper, Apple Pay in Deutschland dank Boon Frankreich, das Phab2Pro von Lenovo, Marcs Computer Trauma, News zu Doctor Who & Star Wars, uvm. Außerdem lösen wir das Gewinnspiel auf!

Robb bought a dead console, John bought some new routers, they both discuss Dropbox Paper (again). Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us? • Eurogamer.net Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition - Official Site Nintendo Switch™ - Official site – Nintendo gaming system Nintendo Switch Commercial #2 - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - YouTube My Docs — Paper Rmlewisuk - Twitch thatgamecompany | TGC » Journey About Gone Home | The Fullbright Company Tearaway Unfolded - From the creators of LittleBigPlanet™ guacamelee.com Home - Sound Shapes Luftrauser - OneMoreLevel.com Poochy and Yoshis Woolly World | Nintendo UK Store PlayStation VR | PlayStation.com Contact Us Email contact@ruminatepodcast.com Hashtag #askruminate

Zažgite ruterje. Res. Povezave AutoSleep Netgear Dropbox Paper Dodatni ARM procesorji v Aplovih prenosnikih za manjšo porabo iOS 10.3 beta 1 watchOS 3.2 beta Dropbox Smart Sync LG 5K monitorju ne delajo blizu ruterjev Napaka je rešena v novih monitorjih Apple Q1?

In this episode, we discuss Microsoft's and Apple's financial results, CS60 performance problems, Dropbox's fastest to $1B run rate, Dropbox Paper and Smart Sync, Slack Grid, Salesforce's new Bellevue office, and we answer questions from the Good Day, Sir! Slack Community. Microsoft reports $26.1 billion in Q2 2017 revenue: Azure up 93%, but Phone down 81% and Surface down 2% Apple defies Wall St. with strong revival in iPhone sales Dropbox just hit a billion-dollar milestone Doug Ayers - CS60 Tweet Dropbox - Fastest to $1B Tweet

We discuss Whitehouse Cyber Security challenges, NZ’s bigger than expected UFB expansion (UFB2), Dropbox competes with Google Docs/Office 365, China’s outlawing of VPNs, Peter Thiel, Spotcap online lending, 12GB and 16TB hard drives and Spark's big outage. Running time 0:53:20

Naoki Hiroshima さん、Kazuho Okui さんをゲストに迎えて、うるう秒、Medium, AirPods, Super Mario Run, ニンテンドークラシック、将棋、今年の抱負などについて話しました。 Show Notes New Year’s Eve will last one second longer than usual this year Leap Second - What is it? Leap Smear | Public NTP Galileo is the European global satellite-based navigation system Formatting a Dropbox Paper doc Tatsuhiko Miyagawa’s Blog How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites Ghost Apple extends developer deadline to support App Transport Security into 2017 iStockNow Live iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Stock Map Bragi Headphone Wireless Earbuds Theft proof your Apple Airpods Apple's AirPods may be the best Bluetooth earbuds for Android Super Mario Run on the App Store Minecraft is now available on Apple TV for $19.99 Super Mario Run - Android Apps on Google Play ニンテンドークラシックミニ　ファミリーコンピュータ｜任天堂 macOS Sierra 10.12.2 released 疑惑が晴れた「将棋のソフト不正問題」と将棋連盟に対して望むこと Rebuild: 168: You Would Drive Your Car with D-Pad (Mami, Michael) Amazon.co.jp: ハーモニー: 伊藤 計劃 Facebook 'made China censorship tool'

♪♪ Ohhhh the weather outside is frightful, but the Bison are playing for a title. And I have places to go, but it's too cold, it's too cold, cold to snow.. ♪♪ BeBizzy Break Podcast : Episode 23 - Dropbox Paper and the Why's and How's of Podcasting Dropbox Paper was announced last week and I started playing with it. It's a meeting management application that allows one to take notes, assign tasks, embed files and videos, and collaborate. Check it out. Why and How Should I Podcast Here's a simple list of what you neeed. Software : Audacity is a free app, so $0 Microphone : A decent microphone will cost less than $100 through Amazon. The one recommended by many of the podcasting experts is the Audio-Technical ATR2500-USB Place to Host/Distribute Your Files : I use Podbean for it's ease on submitting to iTunes and other resources. Why Would I Podcat? Works like a blog to get a message on your expertise out to the audience It's primarily passive. Most people listen while they are driving, working, exercizing or doing something else. Podcasts can even be downloaded automatically. Reading emails and blog posts requires an active participant. Notes (like these) can be added and supply keywords and other items that Google is looking for when indexing the site. Don’t forget to send us any suggestions for apps to review or people to interview. And subscribe to the BeBizzy Break Podcast on iTunes and Stitcher Radio.  And as always, leave the technical stuff to us!

Привет друзья! Сегодня у нас необычно большой блок про дизайн, в котором мы ответим на интересующий многих вопрос: «как притворяться крутым дизайнером?» и о том нужно ли так делать. Кроме этого — поговорим про вдохновение и печатную продукцию, а также про ванильный JavaScript и неправильный путь изучения PHP. Ставь палец вверх и устраивайся поудобнее — будет интересно! Тему к следующему выпуску предлагайте здесь: Тему к подкасту #96. «Дизайн» Находим вдохновении в печатной продукции. 100% способ валидировать email. Как притворяться крутым дизайнером. «Разработка» Настоящие разработчики выбирают правильный хостинг!↓ Стоит выучить ванильный JavaScript перед использованием фреймворков. PHP: неправильный путь. Разработка ПО, объяснённое на машинах. «Светские новости» Какого цвета Дональд Трамп. Dropbox Paper, бета-версия. «WordPress» 10 частых ошибок WordPress разработчиков. В WordPress 4.7 будет новая стандартная тема Twenty Seventeen. «Начно-популярное» Приметы о погоде проверили статистикой. "Негромкий инсульт" частной космонавтики (про SpaceX). Спасибо всем, кто предлагал темы к этому выпуску, с ними можно ознакомиться по ссылке: Темы к подкасту #95. Удачи и дай вам Бог на эти коротенькие семь дней.

Before Federico heads to the beach for many months of vacation, the guys talk about iPad keyboards, Dropbox Paper and Instagram Stories before answering listener questions.

Before Federico heads to the beach for many months of vacation, the guys talk about iPad keyboards, Dropbox Paper and Instagram Stories before answering listener questions.

Das Bandbreite Team fast in Vollendung wieder vereint, diesmal mit Jan, Danny und unserem Auslandskorrespondenten Daniel. Zu Beginn verraten wir unseren zuletzt gesehenen Film oder auch gesehene Serie mit maximaler Spoilerunterdrückung, sofern dies denn überhaupt möglich war. Danach bedanken wir uns frohlockend über unsere bisherigen Bewertungen und bei allen Zuhörern. Dank euch sind wir vor ein paar Tagen in iTunes mit einem kleinen Feature beglückt worden. Vielen Dank! Ein kurzes Follow Up zur letzten Sendung leitet erneut den Apple Talk ein, welcher überwiegend über die neu erschienenen iOS Beta Version, sowie tvOS Beta und die Apple Keynote im März philosophiert und kommentiert. Auch Night Shift und Apples Voranschreiten im Education Bereich finden Beachtung. Beim Hauptthema Geld und Banken oder auch Banking spricht Jan über seine Erfahrung mit Number26 und YNAB und wir diskutieren über die generelle Verwendung von Banking Apps, Banken und die Notwendigkeit von Bargeld im Hinblick auf Schweden und die Zukunft. Zum Schluss sprechen wir über das gehypte Social Network Peach, die Geoblocking Offensive seitens Netflix und über unseren Wechsel von Dropbox Paper zu Quip. Wir freuen uns über Feedback, Anregungen und Empfehlungen zu weiteren Themen oder zur Episode. Schreibt uns Kommentare auf der Website, per Twitter, per Facebook oder Mail. Eine Bewertung und Feedback in iTunes würden wir sehr schätzen.

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Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes 00:00:00 - Speaker 1: Rather than giving someone this hermetically sealed box, can we use an analogy like build a beautiful Lego set for them and hand it to them, where if they like it just as it is, that’s fine. And if they want to add one Lego right there, it’s not a big deal. They sort of see the composition of how this thing was made, they have a little bit of flexibility to tweak it because it’s made out of parts they understand. 00:00:24 - Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to Meta Muse. Muse is a tool for thought on iPad. This podcast isn’t about Muse product, it’s about Muse the company and the small team behind it. I’m Adam Wiggins here with my colleague Mark McGranaghan. Hey, Adam. I’m joined by Jeffrey Litt. 00:00:40 - Speaker 1: Hello, hello. It’s good to be here. 00:00:41 - Speaker 2: So Jeffrey, one thing I’m thinking about these days in raising my young child is growing up in a multilingual household, since both of her parents are from two different countries and we’re living in a third country. I know you grew up in a multilingual household as an adult, what are your reflections on that experience? 00:00:59 - Speaker 1: Yeah, so my mom’s Japanese and I grew up sort of half my childhood in the US, half in Japan, and when I was a kid, my mom sort of forced me and my brother to learn Japanese when we were in the US and I was just thinking about how I’m so grateful now that she sort of overrode our preferences as children, and that now I have some proficiency in the language and so raising kids is complicated. 00:01:20 - Speaker 2: There is going to be, I can see this already at this young age, and I think if it gets only more so as children get more agency naturally with age, which is parents do know better. They’re just older and wiser and know how the world works and At the same time, a kid needs to find their own way, and authoritarian upbringing doesn’t sound particularly like a good way to blossom as a person. So finding that balance between what’s prescribed by parents, you’ll thank me when you’re older. In this case, literally so versus let a kid find their own path. I think that’s an ongoing philosophical moral dilemma. 00:01:57 - Speaker 1: Yeah, especially for something as difficult as learning a language. You know, I do think with whether it’s sports or music or these skills that take a lot of time to master, I’ve also been grateful that my parents helped me learn to love Japanese and build some of that motivation, whether that’s from visits to Japan to hang out there as a kid. I tend to believe that the goal of education at a young age isn’t primarily to transfer the skill. It’s to, as they say, light that fire that eventually keeps learning going, and to this day. I’m practicing my Japanese trying to keep it up, and so I think that’s an important balance this track too. 00:02:31 - Speaker 2: What’s that saying? If you want to set sail on a boat you’re building, you don’t teach someone to build a boat, you teach them to yearn for the ocean. 00:02:40 - Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I think there’s a lot of that at play. 00:02:43 - Speaker 2: So Jeffrey, I’ve been wanting to get you on the podcast for a while here. We got the chance to work together on the Cambria project at Ik and Switch last year, but I’d love to hear just a little bit about your background, how you came to be doing this work in the tools for Though and independent research space. 00:02:59 - Speaker 1: Yeah, so I’m currently doing a PhD at MIT in computer science. I’m in a lab called the Software Design Group, led by my advisor Daniel Jackson. And at the highest level, the questions I’m trying to explore are how do we empower more people to kind of take full advantage of the medium of computing? I think it’s very ironic that we’ve invented this infinitely flexible thing called software, and most of the way that we use it ends up being a small group of people, make some stuff and throw it over a wall, and everyone else uses it. And I’m just interested in new approaches to building software that changed that dynamic. But before coming into this academic side of things, a lot of my thinking on this area actually came from working in startups and shipping real software to people. If you had asked me 5 years ago, are you gonna be doing a PhD, I would have laughed at you and said, you know, no, I’m not that kind of academically minded person. But over my time in startups, I got really interested in these topics and I decided that Rather than go try to start a company or something, the academic environment offers a certain amount of freedom from the need to ship real software immediately, the need to make money immediately, that I thought would be really valuable for kind of thinking more deeply about what the problem actually is here, and maybe bigger picture ways to reorient the way that we build software. 00:04:19 - Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. You have both industry background, as they might say, ship stuff fast, solve real customer problems, and kind of academic mindset, longer time horizons, more of a search for basic truths, trying to think bigger and more expansively and more philosophically, and that’s actually, I think, a place. That I and Switch kind of excels or part of its reason for existence is to kind of be in that middle space between those two worlds which I think is not well occupied and certainly for creative tools generally I feel like that at least right now is the space where we need the most minds and the most effort. 00:04:56 - Speaker 1: Yeah, that’s part of why I have really enjoyed following and can switch his work over the years and have gotten to collaborate a bit with the lab, and I think it fills this really important middle place between those two worlds. Too often I think startups are kind of not reflecting on the larger possibilities of what they could be doing if they had more than, you know, 3 months ahead to think about. And on the other side, you have academics who, I think sometimes It’s not really clear to me how idea transfer really happens from academic human computer interaction research to the real world sometimes. I don’t think it’s a smooth process where, you know, startups are devouring papers that are being written and trying to implement them in the real world. I think it’s a much messier process. If you look at even someone like Doug Engelbart, who I think is a hero for a lot of people in this community, it was really hard for him to get his ideas out into the world, ultimately succeeded, but through a pretty circuitous path. So I think it’s really valuable to have institutions that are thinking about both of those worlds simultaneously, with the ultimate goal of actually deploying in some form, their ideas, as opposed to just sort of just handling the ideas half of things. 00:06:07 - Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that’s why I think I really enjoy following your work so much, is that you do fit in that middle space and hopefully can be a role model for the rest of us on that. 00:06:17 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I’m trying to, it’s tricky. There are a lot of tensions to navigate as I’m sure that you guys have experienced. 00:06:23 - Speaker 2: And I also thank you for being one of the very early users of Muse during the beta as well as a customer. I hope you’ll consider renewing your subscription when that comes up again. You’ve both tweeted lots of screenshots about how you use it, which is, I think, really great for other people seeing how you use things and the every publication even wrote an article. of detailing your work and you talked about a lot of different tools in your flow, include some screenshots of use there so very much appreciate your business, but probably even more than that, the kind of very public moral support makes a big difference, especially in the early days of a product when you know you don’t have so many believers just yet. 00:07:00 - Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for building such a great tool. I mean, I bought the big iPad Pro originally when I was starting to dip my toes into the academic waters and being confronted with a lot of 8.5 by 11 PDFs and decided I wanted a nicer way to read them, but something felt like it was missing there in terms of synthesizing across them. And when Muse appeared, I was like, this is it. This is maybe the early versions weren’t the perfect product yet, but I could tell the vision was exactly what I needed, and so it’s been a blast using it. 00:07:29 - Speaker 2: So our topic today is bring your own client, which is something you’ve written about, and of course I’ll link that article in our show notes here, but maybe you can tee up for the listeners a little bit what that’s all about. 00:07:42 - Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. So bring your own client means having the flexibility to pick what application you want to use when you’re working with some data, and for there to be some independence, especially I think between people who are collaborating on the same project, to pick the software that they want to bring to the table. So I think like to give a concrete example, right, back in the old days when we used to email each other files to work on a document, let’s say I could email you a Word doc. And then you might open that Word doc in Apple Pages or OpenOffice, whatever your preferred word processor is, and then you would send that doc back to me, and I don’t care what application you used on your end, as long as I get a file back, we can work together, right? And in fact, if we’re emailing files, I also don’t care what email client you’re using. There’s sort of this inherent point of flexibility built in where we get to make these individual choices about how we want to work. And broadly, the topic I’ve been thinking a lot about these days is how I think that we are starting to lose some of that flexibility with the way that computing is headed. So I’m very interested in this overall ethos of bringing our own clients and perhaps even building or customizing our own clients, um, to gain a little more control over our experience with software. 00:08:56 - Speaker 2: I think email is one of the best examples perhaps because it’s this really one of the oldest standards in some ways, sort of the first internet protocol in some ways, and the plethora of different clients that have existed over time. I don’t know, I used Pine and later mutt, this kind of terminal-based clients. At university in the 1990s and going forward to Gmail was this big revelation in terms of lots of great interface innovations as well as backend innovations, but it could just work right away. You didn’t need the person on the other end to be also a Gmail user, they could be with any email client. 00:09:36 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think email is one of those domains that really demonstrates how valuable it can be to have this flexibility. You know, I think sometimes it can be tempting to say, does this really matter? What’s the big deal? Can’t we just all agree on the same software to use? But if you look at something like email, I know a lot of people, some of them not that technical, who have really strong opinions about what email client they want to use because they’ve just found one that works well for them. I’ve had many moments of my favorite email clients sort of going out of business or being acquired and hopping from one to the next and searching for that elusive best client. And I think for anyone who’s sort of an email for like 8 hours a day at their job. You start to see why having this degree of flexibility genuinely matters for people, and it’s not just like a little convenience, it’s actually a big deal. 00:10:23 - Speaker 2: Right, and so you see this not only in the big example of Gmail that really revolutionized a lot of things about how email works, but even nowadays we have a plethora of new clients, superhuman, tempo is another cool up and coming one, or for example on the Muse team for our inbound support where you can just basically email hello at museapp.com that goes into a product called Front and so this is kind of a group inbox email thing that has quite different characteristics from what an individual might want. But it’s nice because the person on the other end, they don’t care what we’re using, they can just send us an email, maybe they include attachments, maybe they include whatever we reply back within that, so that gives each party in this back and forth can use what suits them and what’s gonna suit a team that’s going through a bunch of support requests is just dramatically different from what might suit an individual doing their own personal inbox. 00:11:13 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually personally use Tempo, and I think it’s a great example of a niche product. It’s really perfect for what I’m looking for. They have a really minimalist design. They have this concept of batching your emails so you don’t get distracted. And for me, as someone who’s at least trying to not check my email 100 times a day, it’s sort of aligned with what I want. I don’t think it’s necessarily the perfect product for everyone or even the majority of people, but I think it’s right for me, and it’s just great that because we have this shared protocol, I can make that choice to adopt this niche product that maybe only 1% of email users will ever use. Without convincing all this other 99% to join me in using this thing, we sort of take this for granted with email, but look at Slack. There’s not really a concept of a third party Slack client, right? And I think it’s easy to forget how monolithic that experience is. Every team that uses Slack is stuck with the exact same user interface with no ability for individuals or even teams to really meaningfully customize it. And I think that’s a tremendous design challenge to try to make something that works well for so many different people and so many different workforces. 00:12:21 - Speaker 2: Maybe there you illustrate the trade off though Slack because it is an integrated product where they control every part of it, the client, the API, the data storage, all of it, they can work on a very integrated and sleek experience. Twitter went through something similar in their early days. They were moving in this direction of being a platform. There was this initial explosion of clients that tried interesting things. Like TweetDeck and Tweety and so on, and ultimately they decided it was a product decision within their company. We don’t want to be a platform. We don’t want to be the next email. We want to provide an end to end curated experience where when we are going to add a new feature, whether it’s images and video in line or something else that we can fully control what that looks like for all the parties in the equation. And that’s a trade-off that I think you always have to make, an email is a good example. You do get weird stuff that happens when you email between two clients and they don’t quite agree about how to display the results, and also it’s very difficult to add new things. I say that speaking as someone who would really like to embed video into email newsletters and you just can’t do it. You got to use animated GIFs which are low quality and slow to download and so on, but it’s just not a standard that can quickly evolve. 00:13:39 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is indeed one of the core tensions in this idea. How do we balance moving fast with a single decision being made about an ecosystem versus having this more distributed approach. One idea that I find interesting though is kind of this idea of partial compatibility. Can we find sort of middle points between these extremes of a single rigid standard that hasn’t evolved since the 80s versus a company that just decides whatever it wants and imposes it on everyone. I think we can potentially at least try to have app ecosystems where you might have two applications that share 80% of their functionality, and there might be parts around the edges that don’t work perfectly together, but that might be something you can manage as a team, especially if you’re working with people and you know what tools they’re using. I’m really interested in finding tools and sort of platform approaches to mediate this kind of fuzzier partial interoperability. 00:14:34 - Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there’s a really interesting spectrum here, or maybe even a whole world of different possibilities. I’m reminded, for example, of this idea of aftermarket support that you see in consumer durable goods like cameras, for example, and there through fiat or evolution, you have some standards, some connection points where people can. Plug in often literally and you might have the core the proprietary, but there’s all these extensions and accessories that you can put on it and because of that, you get an enormous ecosystem of tools and so on that you can build around the core, like a good example of this would be tractor attachments, where there’s the 3 point hitch, and you can basically put whatever you want on a. you know, a plow, a snow blower, whatever. And that’s really interesting because you enable profitable commercial entities and there’s only a few of them to build the extremely complex integrated tractor. And then you have this whole world of mom and pop metal fabrication shops building random implements for 200 bucks. It’s really interesting balance, and I don’t see that very often in software. 00:15:36 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it’s also interesting in software to look at domains where you often have a lot of tools that look pretty similar to each other if you squint. Take to do list software or like team issue tracker software, for example. Every time I see a landing page for a new project management tool, there’s a lot of concepts there that look pretty familiar. You have things to do, you assign them to people, you have some notion of projects. And yet every tool has a little bit of some unique spin on that problem. There’s perhaps new ideas that they bring for organizing stuff, and yet I think it’s reasonable to say that maybe 80% of the core ideas are shared. So something we actually worked on on the Cambria project that I worked on at I can Switch last summer was, let’s say, as one example, you have one to do list app that’s decided that you can assign something to multiple people to work together on. And another app says that a to do is assigned to a single person. And what if you want those apps to interoperate, you might just say this is impossible, but you could also say, well, if you assign something to multiple people, we’ll just show the first one on the other app that only allows a single assignee, and maybe that’s good enough for your use case to get by with that sort of partial little bit of bridging between those ideas. And I think if we can get creative about bridging between similar but not identical apps more, that opens up a lot more possibilities for how we can have tools work better together. 00:16:54 - Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Another thing that I’m reminded of here is the metadata that you can put at the top of HTML pages. I’m actually forgetting the name, what’s the right name for this? 00:17:02 - Speaker 1: The meta tags, the meta tags, I guess, yeah. 00:17:04 - Speaker 3: And there’s a whole world of emergent, somewhat adopted, partially adopted, somewhat conflicting standards for preview cards and Twitter preview cards and open network preview cards and, but it kind of works out, right, because there’s this basic platform entry point, which is the meta tags and then different platforms and users adopt different subsets of them, but in practice it tends to work pretty well. 00:17:28 - Speaker 2: I think the web obviously in many ways is a great example of an open and evolving standard that on one hand has innovated a lot and continues to over a pretty long period of time but also is not owned by any one vendor and browsers come and go and so on. But one principle that’s often used there is this idea of progressive enhancement. which maybe is kind of what you’re pointing to there, Mark, which is you can drop in something like if there’s some fancy new audio thing or some fancy new video thing or some fancy new interaction capability, you can either first of all just handle the degradation case of this browser doesn’t support that, so let me do something. Simpler, but in many cases just putting in, for example, those meta tags that produce, for example, a certain kind of unfurl card will just be ignored by older browsers that don’t know what that is. They just kind of skip over that and if you’re in that situation or You just don’t see that information and probably something similar happens with, yeah, you use an older browser to load a page that has, I don’t know, some fancy new video thing, you just see an empty box or whatever. That’s not great, but it still works for you, you can still get most of the content. 00:18:38 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we have a lot to learn from the web in terms of how to promote sort of a more flexible notion of what software can be. One really cool thing about the web, right, is that people don’t have to build plug-in APIs into their UIs for you to mess with them. So if you know a little bit of JavaScript hacking, or even, you know, how to open the DOM Inspector on a website, you can go in and delete ads, you can change stuff, you can install browser extensions that modify stuff and none of that is Using some official API, right? It’s just that the nature of the platform is that when you build a website, sort of by default, there’s a lot of hooks built in for people to reverse engineer how it was made and to pretty intrusively modify any part of it. And I think that’s a really interesting goal to aspire to and more software as opposed to a more traditional plug-in API like in a lot of platforms, if there’s no API for it, you’re stuck, you can’t customize that aspect of the software. Of course there are trade-offs, you know. The reverse engineering approach is harder, it tends to be less secure, and it’s a lot harder to maintain over time because things change out from under you. But on the other hand, I think there’s a certain beauty to being able to make changes that not only did the original authors of the software not anticipate and explicitly authorize you to make, but even sometimes ones that they actively don’t want you to make, right? So ad blocker being the prime example of that. And so I’m very excited about the potential for browser extensions as a mechanism for a more customizable kind of software, especially as the web just seems to keep growing and growing as where all software is going to end up living. 00:20:12 - Speaker 2: Yeah, one of my favorite party tricks is opening the Dev Tools console in someone’s browser and doing something like just changing a background color or some text on any website you want Facebook, CNN.com, whitehouse.gov and you know, it can blow people’s minds, wow, you’re an Uber hacker, but I actually also use that as an entry point for getting people interested in programming, letting them see without needing to install any new tools in their computer. Kind of how the web works a little bit under the hood and that they could do this too. 00:20:42 - Speaker 1: I love doing that too. If I’m trying to teach kids about HTML, I’ll always have them vandalize their school website and the Chrome deaf tools inspector and they just get such a thrill. I think it’s, you know, If you’re brought up in this world where software seems to be this immutable object that is just presented to you, and then someone shows you this little trick you can play, that all of a sudden makes it yours and something you can mess with, I think that’s just a really powerful ethos to instill in people. I think Alan Kay would call it. Popping open the hood and seeing something sensible inside and just a little bit of that ability to mess with the internals, I think can go a long way. Adults too, you know, I’ve shown like sales people how to fake a mockup in the browser, and I’ve seen people, adults scream with delight when they realize they can do this stuff. I do think there’s also a problem, which is that stepping from a little bit of dom hacking and depth tools to actually making a real browser extension, is this enormous leap. Like, if you think about it, you know, to publish a browser extension or even to save one for yourself, you go from messing around in depth tools to, OK, I’m going to learn. All these weird APIs and I’m gonna open up a code editor now, and I have to learn some JavaScript, and there’s just this huge chasm, and one of the things I’m interested in is finding ways to, I guess, bridge that gap, or just make it a smoother slope from that first hint of malleability to taking further steps down that path. I think, for example, spreadsheets do this really well, and this is one of my favorite things about the way spreadsheets are designed. There’s a lot of things that make spreadsheets magical for me, but one of them is that you can take your first step of just typing in some numbers, right? It’s just a data table, there’s nothing special. And then you want to add together some numbers, so you learn to use the sum function, let’s say. And then you just keep taking these little little steps. There’s not that much learning involved with any one of them. There’s not that many concepts involved. And fast forward 2 years and you’re like running a whole business on like a bunch of V lookups, right? And I’ve met so many people who don’t consider themselves that technically literate, who are in fact incredibly capable in this medium, and I think that a lot of it has to do with the fact that you can sort of accidentally end up becoming an expert, because no one of those steps was too big. Even though it is the case that, in fact, if you add up all the little steps, you did learn a lot. There was work invested, but it’s a much smoother path to mastery. 00:23:09 - Speaker 2: End user programming is something I think we’re all passionate about here and we’ve written about it in Switch and elsewhere, but this particular element of a gradual step by step rather than having this big jump from user of software to producer of software, I think is a really key part of it. We haven’t cracked the code on that yet as an industry, let’s say. One great discussion of this. Again, coming back to the web, there’s there’s a YouTube talk I’ll link in the show notes, but essentially someone talks about how they had first were using, I think it was LiveJournal, they quickly learned that you can customize the background color or something by pasting this little magic snippet of CSS and that leads you to doing more customizations, and then you go from there to kind of going to full HTML and CSS. There are some break points there if you’re gonna, you know, move off to your own home. Hosting or whatever. There’s a similar kind of path also with HTML that are just files that you FTP to a shared server, or shared host of some kind and then you’re just writing HTML but you can actually break out into PHP with these little codes. So all of these technologies, perhaps not even purposefully, I’m not even sure they were specifically designed to have that gradual ramp, but they do spreadsheets, HTML. PHP all have that kind of ramp, and that ramp is how you can avoid hitting some wall where you have to have some deep intrinsic motivation. I want to learn to be a software engineer or manipulate computers in this way. And instead you’re just on the way to solving your problem. You find some ways to do that by pasting some magic codes into your thing. Maybe you get a little curious and you follow where that leads, and pretty soon you’re an empowered computer user. 00:24:49 - Speaker 1: For me, this comes back to the bring your own client thing. One of the most frustrating experiences for me in software is when you’re in some sort of monolithic ecosystem, and you hit a wall of something you really want to do, but you can’t do, and depending on how the ecosystem around you is arranged, you might just have no choice. That’s sort of it. You can file a feedback request with the company that makes the software, and they will tell you, you know, we have put it on the backlog. Good luck with that. 00:25:13 - Speaker 2: Yeah, it’s on our roadmap. Honestly, I make that answer myself in a new support requests all the time and it’s genuinely true, but I’ve never. Worked on a software project that doesn’t have a roadmap backlog, whatever it is, that is just way longer than what you could ever hope to do in a lifetime. 00:25:28 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I’ve been on both sides of that too. Actually, a lot of how I got into this whole topic to begin with was from my experience being on the other side of that conversation. So before starting a PhD and doing research stuff, worked in startups, I spent a while at an education technology company, where we were building software for K through 12 schools and When we started, we were a very small team. I was fortunate enough to join early. We were like 6 people living in a house together. We only had a few customers, and so we had the ability to focus a lot of attention on any individual request that came in. But as we grew over time, starting to serve thousands of schools across the country, it just became harder and harder to manage all this feedback. And I think the default answer and what you’re supposed to do, given the way software is currently arranged, is to just get better at saying no. So, you sort of assume, well, we’re a resource constrained team, we are the only ones who can change the software. We don’t have the time to do everything everyone wants, and so we’re just going to do less. And I think that on the one hand, that can reflect sort of a wise style of design where you’re not just building a faster horse, you’re like digging deeper and really building something better than they could have asked for, but often in my experience, it was not that at all. It was just that only 5 people wanted something. And I agreed with them, you know, sure, that makes total sense for you. I can see why you want that. I wish I could build it for you, but there’s only 5 of you. And so I’m sorry, and that just really, I think, was a frustrating experience for me, and I found myself wondering, why does my team, you know, in this office in Boston have to be making these decisions for these teachers in like Idaho or whatever. One of the bright spots against that sort of philosophy though was coming back to spreadsheets. I remember this feedback call we had with a customer where We wanted to ask them, how did you like our data reports that we’re showing you, cause we were essentially building data dashboards for schools, and they told us, oh yeah, we don’t use your data reports at all. We use spreadsheets. Let me show you. And so they had exported the CSV and made their own thing. And on the one hand, it was sort of annoying for us having spent so much of our time trying to build this beautiful product experience for them. But on the other hand, it was so cool to see how they had built this really weird and ugly, but extremely functional spreadsheet that did exactly what they wanted for their school, and aggregated the data in a completely different way that had to do with how the teams worked within their school. And I thought what was neat about that was that spreadsheets were this flexible tool kit that they could use to build their own thing, even something as tiny as changing a single word of copy that might have been bothering them and causing friction in their whatever political environment in their school. There’s so many tiny things that I think people would change if they could, but it’s just that the way software is built requires everything to funnel through the original team building thing, which is who’s never gonna have the time. And so, I wish we could reorganize software to support more of that style of customization. 00:28:20 - Speaker 2: So we’ve already touched on some of your work here, Jeffrey. I’ll link your articles on bringing your own client as well as one about browser extensions being underrated, but then maybe you can also talk about some of the projects you’ve done that have to do with how you see solving this problem more broadly. 00:28:39 - Speaker 1: So on the topic of interoperability, one idea that I’m excited about is thinking about better ways to synchronize across existing cloud applications. So I think there’s a way in which, you know, if you’re using one app and I’m using a different app, and if we can establish a bridge between them, where let’s say I’m editing a doc in Google Docs and you’re using Dropbox Paper or your preferred editor, and imagine every single keystroke data is being transmitted live between them. That starts to create this more flexible feeling where the data is not locked in any individual app, and it more kind of lives between the apps. And so one new project that I’m sort of embarking on now is trying to create tools that mediate that kind of synchronization across tools. Some of the hardest part comes back to that partial compatibility issue we talked about earlier, where if there’s changes I’m making that are going to mess up your experience or that aren’t going to propagate to the app you’re using. How can we help users understand the relationship between these apps and feel comfortable with the overall user experience of stitching them together? And I think this gets at some of the toughest challenges in these sort of more flexible software ecosystems is that if we’re all using the same thing, it’s really easy for me to know what you see and what your experience looks like, and the more we diverge. I think it’s really important that I’m at least able to preserve a mental model of maybe there’s some data I’m putting in that you’re not able to see for some reason, and if I’m not aware of that, that’s gonna cause problems, right? And so, a lot of my thinking these days is about building these sorts of sync tools to mediate that gap. 00:30:05 - Speaker 2: I can think of a few examples of that, particularly in the enterprise world, for example, kind of Salesforce to SQL database stuff where your sales team wants to use their CRM because that’s got all these tools and things that suit them, and they’re typing stuff into a web dashboard and getting reminders about who they need to follow up on. But then your data team or your programmers, you know, they’re not going to go cook around in the Salesforce interface. They need to pull stuff into a proper database like a postres database and so syncing seamlessly between those is valuable. Do you have other concrete examples you mentioned the project management tool case. What are some other ones that you see as kind of like key use cases? 00:30:45 - Speaker 1: Yeah, it’s funny, sales data is one I’ve heard a lot about too from people and it’s sort of a more mundane use case. I’m not sure I would classify it in sort of the creative tool space, but I think it points to how this need just pops up a lot inside of companies. 00:30:57 - Speaker 2: I’ll go ahead and count sales as creative work. I actually have this discussion of fair fair bit, which is sort of I like to use the term creative professional when I talk about sort of the target audience for muse, but also maybe just the kind of person I’m interested in serving generally. And a lot of people do respond to that with, oh, well, I’m an attorney or I’m an accountant, is that really creative work? And I think it is, I think there is creativity that goes into, for example, financial modeling, and absolutely there can be creativity that goes into sales. It’s not traditional artist type stuff, so I would go ahead and count that. 00:31:30 - Speaker 1: That’s totally fair, and in fact, I think it points to why tools matter in any profession. Like, there’s a reason that people want to synchronize HubSpot with MailChimp. There’s something going on there about what individual tools are good at in the entire life cycle of how you want to run your process, and the need for sync emerges from the reality that no one tool can do everything perfectly. And so I think that’s totally valid. 00:31:53 - Speaker 2: I’m reminded of the phrase toolmaker humility, which came up in our podcast withalant from Kraft where he really tries to keep that in his heart as he designs the product of knowing you’re not only, not the only tool that people are using. but you’re probably a large collection of both process and over time your toolkit is changing and that sort of thing, and I just feel it’s so easy for toolmakers to want to make the everything tool. Don’t worry, we’ll just do everything and you can put everything in here and we’ll be all in one place and then it can all work together seamlessly and that has never been how the world has worked. It is never going to be how the world works. If you can design your tool to play as well as possible and be aware of that reality, I think everyone’s better off. 00:32:38 - Speaker 1: I think it’s tricky though, because you need not only the willingness of the tool makers to play with other tools, but you need a platform that supports that interoperability in the right way. So I think Kraft is the perfect specific example of this. I think they’ve done the best possible thing you could expect a writing tool to do today, which is that I think as Balant mentioned on this podcast, they let you save your documents either to their cloud, which gives you real-time collaboration, you can comment and things like that, or you can save it to a file, which gives you more control. It is sort of locally stored with you. You have the ability to save it wherever you want. Other people can potentially open those files in different applications, I think, is the ultimate goal of that teams, but it’s an either or. So if you want to collaborate in real time and have that flexibility to open those files in other applications, there’s no technological solution to that today that exists. There’s no platform that team can build on to support that, and to me that’s the key missing piece. There’s this ecosystem missing there, that means that even in this dream world where Google decides they want their party editors to exist for Google Docs or something, supporting that technically is very challenging, and so I think we need better platform support for that kind of thing, in addition to thinking about business incentives for people to even want to do in the first place. 00:33:55 - Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a great example to bring up. I agree there’s a huge technical challenge here. It’s one that I and many people around me and the Ink & Switch research lab have been working on for some years now. Yeah, so you would need to have that in place, something like files for the real-time collaborative internet. What is that abstraction. And then on top of that you do have this whole issue of business and incentives and dynamics and path dependence because let’s say conservatively that creating this technology takes 10 engineer years. a million dollars, who’s going to put that up and then how do you actually turn that into a public platform that’s optimized for the benefit of all the individual users and not the creator? It’s a tough problem. One of the things that I liked about this project that you mentioned, where you’re synchronizing data between cloud services, is that it does grapple with the reality of, here’s our initial condition of there are a bunch of proprietary. cloud services that do have important data and it’d be ideal if they had a perfect JSO API, but that’s not the reality that we live in. So we need to find a way to help our users get data back and forth between them. I feel like a lot of the conversations in this space, that is a space of open systems are of the form, we should X where X is design and build and use a perfect open system. That’s not gonna happen. In fact, it’s unreasonable for you to ask other people dedicate their moral lives to your pet projects, right? So you need to find a way to grapple with these dynamics and get out there in reality. 00:35:19 - Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a tension I think a lot about between sort of an incremental approach versus a first principles approach. I think you could frame it. For example, the solid project, which is led by Tim Berners-Lee and is pretty prominent in this space, is one attempt where their idea is, you know, we’re gonna essentially fundamentally rearchitect how web apps are built. We’re going to give users these little, they call them pods, where the users control their own data, and then web applications can connect to your pod to access and edit your data, but the applications themselves don’t store the data. And I think that’s a lovely vision. I would love to see something like that succeed, but as you’re saying, Mark, I think the biggest challenge is, how are we possibly going to get from the world we have today to that future? Are we really going to rebuild the web stack from scratch? And is the experience going to be better enough for both developers and users to incentivize such a massive shift? I tend to think that no amount of, you know, legislation or regulation, let’s say, is going to successfully push us to a solution if it’s not better for both developers and users. And so I think we need to think about making it incredibly easy and awesome for both of those groups in order to get from where we are today to that beautiful future. 00:36:34 - Speaker 3: Yeah, and to be clear, I do believe it’s possible to get to a future that looks very different from the present, a radically different future, but necessarily you are going to get there in incremental steps, which might be incremental steps from the status quo or incremental steps from zilch, basically where you’re building up a new system in the context of the current ecosystem. I think both of those are viable. I agree. I think what we need here is entrepreneurs in the broadest sense, not just of commercial ventures, but of ideas and nonprofits and politics and all these things to really work towards the future that they want to see. 00:37:04 - Speaker 1: I think another really important thing on the entrepreneurship theme there is being realistic about use cases. I think my favorite startup style thinkers are the people who can really focus on what is this technology actually useful for, and how can we focus in on that one killer app. And I’m not sure that we’ve necessarily found that killer app yet in this space. For me, I think collaborative writing might be the one personally, but I worry that you can make all the tech demos you want. But a lot of things take off in a particular niche. And I’m interested in finding where’s the place where people desperately are needing this real-time interoperability to the point that they would actually abandon their familiar tools. 00:37:43 - Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like this actually afflicts quite a few projects in the space where, again, they’re thinking in terms of generalities and they don’t have a specific use case in mind. I actually called this the mark rule for product management, which is you need to have a single named human being like an email who specifically wants your projects. And that sounds like a low bar, but in a lot of cases, you ask people that and they’re like, oh, it’s salespeople. Well, do you have a specific one in mind that I can email? Well, not always, right? So it’s a good baseline. 00:38:11 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I think often, especially with this kind of customizable software, it’s tempting to get into wouldn’t it be cool if conversations that where it might be nice, but there’s no real pain. One use case that I think is really compelling to me is I read a paper recently by some researchers at Northwestern University on accessibility issues and collaborative writing. And they talk about how people with sight impairments have a really hard time using Google Docs with their teammates, because there are certain accessibility issues around how that platform works. And what they often end up doing is they’ll either convince their team to adopt a different workflow, or they’ll just give up and copy paste text out into a Word doc or something, edit it there, and then paste it back. And it’s very, very cumbersome. It’s not just a little inconvenience, it really limits their ability to be a true member of their team. And they have to make this incredibly uncomfortable choice where they talk about the social anxiety around trying to convince all of their coworkers to use a different tool, or just internalizing that friction and deciding to try to live with it. And I think that if you imagine a world of greater interoperability, could we have a text editor that is much more optimized for this specific group of people who have very different needs and still allow them to collaborate with their peers more effectively? The more that people’s needs differ, especially people with disabilities, I think often have fairly different kinds of needs and a lot of other people. I think that those are use cases I’m thinking a lot about in terms of where we really need better interoperability. 00:39:41 - Speaker 3: Yeah, it’s a great motivating factor. It’s easy to think of the what ifs in terms of cool conveniences and emojis and so on, but let’s not forget about that as well. 00:39:51 - Speaker 1: I also think as an antidote to cool conveniences, there’s sort of an interesting paradoxical way that software customization actually promotes very boring stability. So I think one of the special things about, let’s say, programmers and their text editors, which is a place where we have some of this file-based interoperability, is that if you talk to programmers, often they’ve invested like a decade plus in using a particular editor, right? And they’ve carried it with them from job to job, they’ve really made it their own. And they have successfully been able to avoid switching tools because of interoperability. It’s not this kind of tinkering, trying a bunch of new things mindset. It’s exactly the opposite of just getting to invest deeply in one tool and to keep using it. I think that’s an underrated benefit of interoperability is just. Yeah, being able to make that deep investment. 00:40:42 - Speaker 2: The revealed preferences of software engineers is that yeah, very standardized file formats, usually plain text, wide variety of source editors, wide variety of different kinds of plug-ins and liters and things like that. I guess you do have to agree on your version control system that needs to be at least somewhat standardized on your team. Terminal, even things like database clients, you know, SQL is pretty standardized, so software engineers seem to prefer software that changes less. And has more interoperability and it does have the problem of, as we mentioned previously with email or Twitter as a platform versus a product. Yes, it is hard. Someone says, you know, programming editors or source code would be really great if you could drop in an image. I could put in a little diagram of my Architecture or something like that in a comment that would make perfect sense. I think that would be a big improvement, but that would be very hard to do because the plain text format we’ve all been using a very long time and all the tools are built around that, but essentially software engineers prefer that versus something sort of newer and shinier and with more features. 00:41:50 - Speaker 3: Yeah, in fact, it’s the ecosystem that is extraordinarily susceptible to customization and extension because all the participants are able and in fact inclined to do that. So kind of competitively, it’s very hard to win without leveraging that. I think a good example of that is the editor wars which to my mind are now kind of coming to a close and BS code is one to a large extent I think because of the incredible platformization they have with extensions and language servers and so forth, and typically there’s going to be a bunch of editors. I use a different one. But they’ve been able to really pull ahead while accelerating the whole ecosystem for developers because they lean so heavily into the open platform angle. 00:42:28 - Speaker 1: I also think though that the diversity of text editors can teach us something about how to reconcile this partial compatibility thing we were talking about, because if you think about it, yes, the base format of the code being shared between people can be really stripped down into this text format, but some editors like VS code, do a lot with that format. They’ll run fancy analysis on top of it and do syntax highlighting and all these like autocomplete things, which are not inherently part of the data exchange format. They’re just Bells and whistles that each individual editor gets to add on top to that experience. But I’m not forced to opt into that. I can use a stripped down, I could use Microsoft notepad to edit code if I wanted to, right? There’s nothing stopping me from doing that. 00:43:08 - Speaker 2: Ed is the standard text editor. 00:43:09 - Speaker 1: Yeah. In fact, I think when I was like 12 years old, that’s probably when I started using to write code because I didn’t know any better. And I think That’s an interesting, for me lesson to reflect on is can we get more places where there’s this shared core and then more functionality built up as optional app specific extensions. 00:43:27 - Speaker 2: And then we touched briefly on, I guess, financial incentives, and we look at the interoperability problem writ large. Certainly it comes from the world of files, kind of classic desktop files, and yeah, there was problems with sort of format openness like Word docs. Files, for example, but ultimately files did seem to have a lot of that agency and interoperability, and it’s really both mobile and cloud that I think brought us these more closed up hermetically sealed systems, both for their own reasons. I think mobile is more around kind of safety and security and comprehensibility to end users, particularly very non-technical users. But on the maybe cloud web app side, particularly B2B software, now you get into this thing where data is considered to be where the value is. James Chen used this terminology data swamp. That that’s kind of like the aggregating a bunch of data together and that’s where the value is and you even see that in what people expect to pay for software. We run up against that with Muse, we talked to Balant from Kraft about that as well, which is people are in the mindset of, oh, if you’re going to host my data for me, then you need to run a server or whatever, then I can justify paying a subscription. But if I’m just buying the software, they feel like software isn’t valuable on its own, and of course that’s really restrictive for making truly great software and furthermore, it creates all these incentives around of course you want to lock up the data, of course, something like a two-way sync. Like you described, that’s hurting my business’s value. So trying to find a way to create financial incentives and paying for the software and the value that provides you versus the data, the data swamp, that’s a tough one. 00:45:12 - Speaker 3: Yeah, it’s tough. One angle that I like circling back to a previous podcast on games is, so to kind of recap the dynamic there is that there are some ecosystems that are so high powered because of their open platformized, scriptable, customizable, whatever nature that no amount of proprietary excellence can compete. And I don’t think we’ve quite found or charted that path in the world of creative tools. You think about, I don’t know, Photoshop. Could an open Photoshop be so much better such that it displaces Adobe Photoshop? I mean, maybe, right? I don’t yet see the path for that, but perhaps in the world of multi devices or multi users or other use cases, there is. So I think that’s one promising angle. There are other angles, but that to me seems perhaps the most interesting. 00:46:01 - Speaker 2: That’s an interesting one to think of the way that for example the web and its open standards and interoperability displaced and was clearly a huge improvement on the more closed up formats like Flash or maybe Java Servlets that came before. Clearly the web was just so much superior and it In addition to being open, hackable, you can pop open your DOM Inspector and do stuff to any web page. So what would be an equivalent of that that would make Photoshop or even something a beloved current piece of software like Sketch or FIMA? What would make those things feel like a Java servelet by comparison? 00:46:38 - Speaker 1: I think there’s a really tricky balance here to strike because it is very valuable to have someone think through an entire unified product experience and make it all fit together in a coherent way. I know this is something you’ve thought about a lot with when I use Muse, it feels like someone has taken care to design this whole environment and I don’t have to do much work to sort of put together a bunch of pieces. And 90% of people most of the time, don’t want to like assemble their own software from scratch, right? There’s a reason we pay designers. is to think through these problems for us. And I think that’s totally a good thing, and designers bring a lot of value in that way. But at the same time, I think that we can think about rather than giving someone this hermetically sealed box, can we use an analogy like build a beautiful Lego set for them and hand it to them, where if they like it just as it is, that’s fine. And if they want to add one Lego right there, it’s not a big deal. They sort of see the composition of how this thing was made. They have a little bit of flexibility to tweak it because it’s made out of parts they understand. I think that’s a design ethos that sometimes I feel like we’re in danger of moving away from. There’s this great story in one of my favorite books about end user programming, which is called Changing Minds by Andy Dessa, who’s sort of an education and computing researcher, and he talks about this nightmare he had where he’s riding a bike, and he looks down at the gears, and they are labeled not with numbers, but with words, like this is gravel mode, this is like uphill mode. And he has no idea how to use the thing, you know, if I’m going downhill on gravel, do I use gravel mode or downhill mode? And he talks about how like, because we’re used to riding bikes with number gears, this sounds sort of ridiculous, but you can imagine the product manager that had that conversation where they said, these numbers make no sense to people. People don’t want to like, see 1234, they want to understand the function. We need to give them an easier way to understand what this tool is for. But what you’re robbing them of is a structural sense of what’s going on underneath to provide that functionality. So that the moment you go off the expected use cases for the thing, you have nothing to lean on. You have no coherent understanding of the system, and so everything just falls apart. And what he contends is that people can actually learn sometimes more than I think we give them credit for. Like, it’s not actually that hard to learn a bike. Everyone learns how to ride a. Like, even though it takes some practice and you have to feel out the gears to understand how they work. Once you’ve put in that little bit of effort, you have this sort of generalizable understanding of the system that can go a long way and is much more generically applicable. And so I think it’d be nice to see a little bit more of that style reflected in how we build software for people. 00:49:09 - Speaker 2: Well said, yeah, I think the design ethos often is kind of polarized towards the edges, which are either making pure consumer stuff. It just has to be as simple as possible, no choices, no customization, just can’t have no chance of going off the rails. And getting confused or we have the full on I’m going to build my own PC from parts and put together my own Linux distribution and assemble my raspberry Pi and you put together all my special VS code plugins and there’s kind of nothing in between sometimes. 00:49:43 - Speaker 3: This reminds me of an important point about these platforms and ecosystems. If you look at the successful spaces, whether it’s software or protocols or hardware, it generally is not, you have some platform and then a bunch of individual users completely customizing their setup. What tends to happen is you have the platform, you have a small number of secondary market providers, if you will, who provide modules. Sanctions, implements, what have you, and a much bigger group that tries, by the way, but a lot of that stuff just kind of gets filtered out, doesn’t bubble up the top. But if you create an opportunity for people to have a business or some other sense of fulfillment from providing these things to the community, you only need a few of them. To really enhance the ecosystem. And yes, you’re gonna have some users who want to build their whole tractor from scratch or who want to go in and fiddle with the HTML and CSS that’s fine, but often the real main potatoes of these ecosystems is the secondary market of service module extension providers. And the somewhat sad consequence of that as someone who’s really into end user programming is that often it’s not the end user programming experience that matters the most. If you look at how hard it often is to build a module or extension or an add-on, often it’s frankly a huge pain, but people who are doing that as a small business, as a major hobby, they’re willing to get over that and then they can provide the service for all the other users in the ecosystem. So it often ends up being important is distribution, obviously platform access, and some ability to monetize or get the equivalent personal fulfillment. 00:51:20 - Speaker 1: I’m not sure I totally agree that it’s sad for end user programming. I think you’re totally right that there’s this collaborative dynamic, but for me, that’s sort of just one part of the picture to keep in mind when we’re designing tools for this. So like, for example, and I think there’s a similar dynamic in spreadsheet usage, where there’s been some great studies by Bonnie Nardi, who’s kind of like a hero in the end user programming community of how spreadsheets are used in offices and What it turns out being is that there’s like someone in the office who’s like the spreadsheet person, right? And when you have a really complicated formula, right, you go to them and they help you and they figure it out, and then you go back to your desk and keep working on it. But the key thing there is that there is a large part of that ecosystem that is available to you, even as a novice, and you don’t have to like, again, ask someone to ship you a hermetically sealed thing. Maybe you can sort of read the formula they wrote and start to learn a bit. And so I think Having fuzzier boundaries of expertise and enabling more collaboration is a thing to strive for. One project I’ve worked on that sort of embodies this goal a bit is this project called Wildcard, which is a tool kit for people to build their own browser extensions without programming. And the rough idea there is, like you were saying, Mark, it’s pretty hard to build a browser extension. Some browser extensions are extremely complicated. And when I install them, I have no idea how they work inside. If I want to tweak the extension, or maybe compose two extensions in a new way, that’s typically really hard to do. And the thesis of the Wildcard Project is that, yes, some extensions need to be really complicated like you said, but also there are some extensions that I think don’t need to be that complicated. I remember using for a while an extension that added a checkbox next to every transaction on a bank statement, so you could just remember whether you’d already written it down somewhere else. And this had like thousands of installs on the Chrome extension store, you know, that’s not a sophisticated thing. But again, it’s really hard to even build something that simple as a non-programmer. So the goal of Wildcard is, can we take that subset of extensions, which is not that complicated and make it accessible to normal people to build. And actually, as you can tell, you know, I’m sort of a spreadsheets fan. And so the paradigm we went with was, what if you could edit a website in a spreadsheet is the vision. You know, you open up a little pane, you see some data in a table that sort of represents what’s in the page, like on a news site, it might be a list of articles with their names and authors and whatever. And then, As you mess with the spreadsheet, whether that’s sorting and filtering or adding new columns with little formulas in them, all of that flows back into the page and modifies it. And the goal there is that if you’ve used a spreadsheet, you can maybe learn your way around this environment, you don’t need to like open a code editor, you’re just right there in the website and you can build and share these customizations with other people. Now, again, it might be the case that 90% of users of this thing eventually will just install pre-made things that others made, but if they’re not written in JavaScript, if they’re in this sort of more user friendly paradigm, maybe more people will end up popping the hood there and making little tweaks of their own. So I think it’s this delicate balance there. 00:54:15 - Speaker 2: Well, before we go, one question I think that can come up sometimes is this question of designing software for other people, and maybe you can imagine that product designers who their whole role in fact is doing that and software as this abstract hard to understand thing you actually need another person with that expertise to design it for you. But you could actually swing back the other way as well and say, how can anyone else know your needs? And in fact, this is why some of the startup advice is solve your own problem, build something for yourself because you know it in an intimate way that no one else can. Where do you stand on this? How can others design software? 00:54:53 - Speaker 1: Yeah, this may be a slightly extreme way to put it, but I think I’m pretty pessimistic that it’s possible to design truly great software for someone besides yourself. Especially if the person you’re designing for is operating in a complex environment, like, for example, I had experience designing for teachers, and I’ve never been a teacher in a classroom before.