tiny differences between DoorDash and UberEats, like the display of individual ratings (they’re likely coming soon, considering Eats collects them too): Notice the favorite heart on the top title/header area for DD as well as the sharrow — knowing people’s preferences and also sharing preferences is likely a product value which is reflected in the UI as a primary affordance :)

It’s about time to re-read one of my favorites: “How to Become a Centaur” by Nicky Case Case sets up the essay by pointing out that our “root fear” with AI is that it won’t “share our human goals and values,” thereby setting up a game that’s zero sum.

1/One of the loveliest recent shifts in my career has been around increased responsibilities for managing/mentoring a PM intern.

We're at about the 4th-week mark, and I'm beaming inside thinking of these experiences.

Here are some considerations for a very fulfilling dynamic: 2/
a) your job as a manager is to create a safe, friendly, and caring dynamic by actually being interested and deeply committed to their growth and learning;
b) feeling short of time, don't jump to "correcting"--instead, take the time to parse the logic and think with them;

@JamesClear Quite a few, some that are retrieved as paragraphs:

"read slowly: the plot will unfold in real time"
--a. s. ali

"But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it...Remember that, my child! Remember you're half water."
--M. Atwood @JamesClear "Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts.... Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day."

--Munger

📚 “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle 📖

Colleague at work reccomended this and am finally getting around to it “I’m done with smart machines...Where are the sensitive machines?”

"When you look at the lives of people who've done great work, you see a consistent pattern. They often begin with a bus ticket collector's obsessive interest in something that would have seemed pointless to most of their contemporaries." --@paulg @paulg "One of the most striking features of Darwin's book about his voyage on the Beagle is the sheer depth of his interest in natural history. His curiosity seems infinite. Ditto for Ramanujan, sitting by the hour working out on his slate what happens to series."

Book thread: “Thinking in Systems: A Primer” by Donella H. Meadows. 📚👇 Systems are manipulable, suppressing and surfacing some hidden potential of behavior latent within its structure: