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https://www.theverge.com/21571690/oomba-startup-work-environment-sex-lies-video-games-gameworks-exworks

Inside the spectacular startup failure of Oomba Strip clubs, board games, sugar babies, an office coup — and a whole lot of money

This was a very painful reading. I always thought that if you perform well you will get recognized and promoted. Oh boy how wrong was I. https://defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted?fbclid=IwAR0J9fj5sQbPWqpE6L2S_LkMeRvQ5jShtq4773yGvAKGbDXUMIGWD3WLfDI

How to get promoted Almost everyone who does great work toils in relative obscurity. Performance reviews are social fiction. How do people really advance through the corporate hierarchy?

Entertaining talk about product management with some cool industry examples https://youtu.be/i69U0lvi89c I recommend :)

20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha There is probably one part of the product management job we can all agree is the hardest - people. People are unpredictable, have strong opinions and unconsc...

Damn! He's good! There are more sensible people than none sensible but they are just not so loud. If you feel like standing up you should otherwise what's the point?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxJUMBVO18I

"If you can't tell someone to go to hell then you can't negotiate with them" Jordan Peterson This clip is an excerpt from his 2017 lecture series Biblical series XI : S***m & Gomorrah He is talking about the memo by James Demore in the second half of...

cool article from Markiyan Matsekh https://medium.com//what-i-learned-about-launching-products-in-startup-vs-big-company-after-5-attempts-d8dfb3a710bc very useful when trying to strategies on the market.

What I learned about launching products in startup vs big company after 5 attempts Since I started at Vimeo 1 year ago, I evaluated the opportunity of launching a new product or entering a new market 4times, and we’ve…

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/apple-arcade-review/ the future of mobile gaming is subscription and cross platform games! We sort of knew all the way that we have to start subscription monetising model but we couldn't find a way of doing it right 🤷‍♀️. I'm so impressed with apple offer, I want to have it ! and all of their products ! I want to be able to play same game on tv too! 🤩🤩🤩

Apple Arcade review: Mobile gaming gets a massive upgrade for $5 a month For the price of one console game a year, Apple Arcade gives you a lot of quality games and a steady stream of new titles.

I always was wondering how services like AppAnnie and Censor tower get their data, they always looked suspiciously correct and here we go: Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions of people who have installed popular VPN and ad-blocking apps - free apps they say
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/vpn-and-ad-blocking-apps-sensor-tower

Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data Sensor Tower has owned at least 20 apps that track data passing through people’s phones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnnHWSWJryA have you ever wondered why do you think you're not enough ? great podcast !

The Way To Love by Anthony De Mello | Aubrey Marcus Podcast Books #1 I am really excited to announce a new edition to the Aubrey Marcus Podcast: AMP Books. Books are our way to stand on the shoulders of the giants who have com...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRRvjZ_XNog how to be a dick 🤷‍♀️😅

DICKS: Do you need to be one to be a successful leader? This is a question that has been eating away at me for a long time, so I decided to make a movie about it. This is also the first video in a new series I am ...

So i've cried a bit over the last part of drama at work series, realising world is not perfect and not everyone is like you is hard. But it also gave me some confidence that my values are good and are cherished in work enviroments different from mine and i can try to promote them or die trying 🤷‍♀️ Otherwise - what are we even doing here ?
https://medium.com/.cascante/burn-books-and-power-dynamics-38c0c5701f84

Burn Books and Power Dynamics Strategies to reduce drama at work: Part 3

recently I got really hooked on lectures of Robert Sapolsky, he's so interesting and feels like he has all the answers in the world! soon I will be a pro in human behavior ☺️ listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOY3QH_jOtE

15. Human Sexual Behavior I May 5, 2010) Robert Sapolsky explores behavioral patterns of human reproduction. He focuses on proximal and distal motivations, or**sm and fertility facilita...

Are you interested in empahy mapping ? or creating engaging game design ? watch this talk :) examples on cats are the best 😅
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seyH_fX0vr0

What Cats Can Teach You About Empathic Game Design In this 2019 GDC session, Mew and Me's Willem Delventhal explains how designing games for house cats helped him think about designing games for humans as wel...

Here's a part2 about drama at work. Enjoy! https://medium.com/.cascante/strategies-to-reduce-drama-at-work-part-2-aafe6076d2c9

Strategies to reduce drama at work Part 2: Can we stop playing games?

Do you feel like sometimes you have too much drama at work ? Luis Cascante wrote an awesome article on how to decrease it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I think I need to re read it twice to absorb methods you mentioned in it. Quick summary: start from yourself 🙈
https://medium.com/.cascante/strategies-to-reduce-drama-at-work-490f2aaa91f3

Strategies to reduce drama at work Part 1: From Blaming to Problem Solving

Another great book about personal development ! I would recommend to watch his workshop on youtube as well. It cought my attentioin with winners like to win motto. You will find it valuable if you ever considered yourself overachiever or workaholic 😁
https://jamesclear.com/book-summaries/what-got-you-here-wont-get-you-there

Book Summary: What Got You Here Won't Get You There This is a book summary of What Got You Here Won't Get You There. Read this What Got You Here Won't Get You There summary to review key ideas from the book.

My fav book when it comes to understanding how do you build a high performanced team, recommend to reading for all managers, i'd say it's must have.
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Five-Dysfunctions-of-a-Team-Audiobook/B004EXKC5M?source_code=M2M30DFT1Bk13108101801SV&&gclid=CjwKCAiAu9vwBRAEEiwAzvjq-wD3zI4K__LIRw_n_lhaRC8mu8Da6HO3DnWB31gc0gmoaIKs-_DTphoC5rkQAvD_BwE

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Len.....

Get inspired by a story from a great leader. Haven't finished this book yet, let me know what do you think if you read it.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33288345-konosuke-matsush*ta---his-life-and-management-philosophy

Konosuke Matsush*ta - His Life and Management Philosophy (The Art and Wisdom of Management - Vol. 1) Konosuke Matsush*ta - His Life and Management Philosophy book. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.

The title talks for itself :)
https://syndicode.com/2019/04/05/agile-ux-vs-lean-ux/

Agile UX vs. Lean UX - Syndicode - Ruby on Rails development agency design guide Lean UX is described as a set of principles based on the Agile methods of the ‘Lean Startup’, where the focus is brought to the present. But how then we can contradistinguish Agile UX vs. Lean UX? At first, we should tell you more about Agile UX...

For Russian speakers - love this blog/website, nicely structured research cases !
https://hardclient.com/kazbegi-rooms

Отель Kazbegi Rooms Аудит сервисной модели отеля

Have you tried mobile version of COD ? it's pretty cool! Love this deep dive in franchise analysis.
https://www.deconstructoroffun.com/blog/2019/11/20/how-call-of-duty-mobile-left-100m-on-the-table

How Call of Duty Mobile left $100M on the Table — Deconstructor of Fun ...and how the game can still turn it around to become a billion-dollar franchise on Mobile.

https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/podcast-diego-rodriguez/?utm_campaign=Weekly%20Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=80568748&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--dZUWmGXqXm0aLx3yeSnzC7AAcvp0vVJXgYVU99UBZtJLW9QcSvZxC4-n5N-HL1kANL6sy9uzOQa3hlaUrZJae1YExCg&_hsmi=80568880

Balancing quantitative metrics and qualitative research with Intuit’s Diego Rodriguez | Inside Design Blog Recapping DesignBetter.Co's podcast episode featuring Intuit's Diego Rodriguez.

Good article, very true advices but how to use it on practice ? I don't know, it's not that simple, I guess if it would be I'd work for google already 😁
https://medium.com/google-design/how-to-have-a-successful-ux-career-at-google-or-anywhere-else-ea63624f74de

How to Have a Successful UX Career at Google (Or Anywhere Else) Three mindset-changing tips you won’t learn in design school

I also watch lots of talks, partly because I want to learn to a better speaker myself but it's also fun to learn from others experiences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRd6Ddn4ZSY

Netflix Product Designer | Navin Iyengar | Design Like a Scientist Product Designer at Netflix, Navin Iyengar reveals how Netflix applies experimental thinking to design using A/B testing and tells us how to design like a sc...

https://jenson.org/games/?fbclid=IwAR0qeazIGlDIPZVc9yjWaIkHrrLWh_wcDCEfC9V9svQjOv96EyiX9OeGzOw

How Video Games Inspire Great UX – Scott Jenson September 1, 2019 How Video Games Inspire Great UX “Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”Alan Kay This quote is meaningful to me as I’ve often struggled with a problem until an insight from a user test “changed my perspective”. I had this intuition that video games would also change my persp...

Competition gets harder! after a rise of Playrix here we have Zynga stepping up forward.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/farmville-maker-zynga-is-booming-again/

FarmVille maker Zynga is booming again Profit margins have rebounded, and sales are growing at their fastest pace since the game developer went public in 2011.

Love this page! If you are still wondering what's the difference between Ui and Ux check it out! I usually use it when I need a more structured description which was nicely written before me.
https://syndicode.com/uiux-design/

UI/UX Design Services by creative team of Syndicode UI/UX Design Services by creative team of Syndicode. This is a step-by-step design process on UI and UX design services provided by high-level Syndicode specialists for web, mobile applications, and services.

if you know Russian: https://medium.com/ux-clan-flow/и-больше-никаких-жетонов-ab4573dc081f Коли я перший раз проводила повноцінне case study ця сторінка була дуже кльовим джерелом покрокової інструкції до всіх етапів проектування це як план якому можна просто слідкувати

Проектирование интерфейса автомата Киевского метро История об одном тестовом задании которое превратилось в полномасштабное дизайн-исследование

I haven't read this one yet but was recommended as to a noob in the investment world. Let me know your thoughts if you read it.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Swimming-Sharks-Journey-World-Bankers-ebook/dp/B010KNF704

Swimming with Sharks: My Journey into the World of the Bankers Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector.Joris immersed himself in th...

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