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Any truly popular art relies on finding an emotional hook that’s specific enough to identify with strongly but broad enough that most people can see themselves in it. Everyone’s fe…

Devs age 6 years every year

This kind of just-so story is easy to write after the fact. It's harder to see the future at the time. How many people read a version of the same story and pivoted their company to…

Dear Mr President, there are too many apps nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.

it can handle part of it, it doesn't solve for a lot of things around compliance and risk. They might help you understand local compliance, but the business still needs to be actua…

Tax, work rights, compliance, labor protections and entitlements all get pretty complicated. Some countries have high levels of public holidays, rules around dismissal that get leg…

The writing's been on the wall for Australian neobanks for several years. 86400 got bought for its tech, Xinja went bust, Up is mostly a front end for Adelaide / Bendigo bank, a bu…

Jaycar still does a lot of this! The one in Central Park Sydney still does a lot of workshops, they have a maker hub, sell a lot of the class electronic components and things like …

Do a detailed post-mortem, ensure you can learn from it. Remember that the correctness of a decision is about whether you made the right choice with the information you had at the …

You are 23. You are not a failure. You have a passion, and a talent, and dedication. You have simply identified an area of your life that you'd like to improve. You might feel like…

third option is to go and work somewhere that builds software that helps people make product decisions - think a Dovetail, Figma, Atlassian etc. Your perspective will make you an e…

Does she want to use her COBOL experience? There's a lot of COBOL consulting work with government and banking clients, and it's common for those consultants to be older. Her milita…

Jobs to be done is helpful to get a baseline understanding of what problem you want to solve. However personas and more detailed design work will help you understand your audience …

Yeah, the problem is that users don't do it of their own volition. Social media buttons do change user behaviour. It might not sway you, but if you track social media activity on y…