Oversimplified: Volume 118

Sociotechnical lenses, digital nomads, and product management mental models

Hey there 👋

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📚 Sociotechnical Lenses into Software Systems

No need to bury the lead. This was easily my favorite thing I read this week. It’s pretty straightforward that software exists between people and tech, but the way this article breaks down the topic more in-depth is fantastic.

📚 Product Management Mental Models for Everyone

This was a really thorough and solid refresher on some concepts that you should probably be using often, whether you’re working as a PM or not.

📚 Amplitude Founder AMA

It’s not every day that the founder of a recently public company gives such candid answers to such thoughtful questions. Lots of fun tidbits in here, especially if you are in and around the analytics space.

🔗 SQLime

This is a really cool idea for a project. Makes me wonder what goes into the popularity of similar tools like JSFiddle and if SQL fits the use case as well.

🔗 The 2021 State of Digital Nomads

As someone who is currently “digital nomading” around for the foreseeable future, this caught my attention. You can skip a lot of the fluff but there are a few crazy stats like nearly 80% of respondents being male. Assuming that’s representative, it’s really a bummer that things aren’t more even split among the nomad population.

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Food for Thought

He subscribes to Blue Gamma’s philosophy of AI design: experience is the best teacher, so rather than try to program an AI with what you want it to know, sell ones capable of learning and have your customers teach them. — Exhalation

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