February 2012
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Gamification as a Staple in Health
Since being posted yesterday, I’ve read Vinod Khosla’s guest post (“The ‘Unhyped’ New Areas in Internet & Mobile”) on Techcrunch twice and several parts of it 5+ times. We should feel pretty fortunate to be able to obtain this type of information for free.
Of the 12 opportunity areas that he details, Health 2.0 excites me the most (for now). I’d love...
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“Defend and respect the user’s voice”
– One of Twitters core values
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“we frequently make product decisions that may reduce our short-term revenue or...”
– I love it. Excerpt from Facebooks S-1.
January 2012
2 posts
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“Incentives matter and if you can figure out what peoples incentives are, there...”
– Freakonomics
December 2011
1 post
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“We’re not social. We’re not viral. We just focus on trying to make a product...”
– Phil Libin - CEO of Evernote
November 2011
2 posts
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Jawbone UP Review
The lack of Jawbone UP reviews has inspired me to write my own. I’m hoping other early adopters will find this and share their thoughts. The inability to find many reviews also shows that either the product isn’t considered to be as “cool” amongst the tech world as I had anticipated, that people are skeptical of its accuracy, or that it’s priced incorrectly.
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October 2011
1 post
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When I was born, I was the 5,019,416,216th person alive on Earth and the 79,933,496,802nd person to have lived since history began
Thanks http://bbc.in/rXYCff
September 2011
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Bye PayPal. Hello Millennial Media
After 4.5 years at Bill Me Later/PayPal I have decided to take advantage of an opportunity to work for an exciting company called Millennial Media. Millennial Media is a leader in the mobile advertising space and is headquartered a few blocks from my house in Baltimore. I’m very exciting about the things I’ll be working on and the people I’ll be working with.
I’m very...
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August 2011
1 post
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Product Management Manifesto via 280group
Download it
July 2011
2 posts
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Steve Jobs: What are the best video...
Steve Jobs: What are the best video speeches/interview by Steve Jobs? 8 answers on Quora What are the best video speeches/interview by Steve Jobs?
June 2011
1 post
“…in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand...”
– Bill Buxton in “Sketching User Experiences”
May 2011
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April 2011
1 post
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Early Career Lessons Learned - Product Management
With my 24th birthday approaching and a recent promotion on my resume, I’ve decided it’s time to share my early career learning’s with the world. Many people say that 24 isn’t old but I disagree. It’s about 5 years older than when I started working and 4 years older than Mark Zuckerberg when he co-founded Facebook.
BACKGROUND:
I was a jock in high school with no...
February 2011
1 post
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“People react positively when things are clear and understandable.”
– Dieter Rams
January 2011
3 posts
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Rock Star Product Managers
I came across an awesome interview between Paul Young and Allison Tatterson. I’d highly suggest reading the full post.
I found his chart of traits and skills that great product managers embody to be particularly helpful and accurate. It has helped me realize that I’m on the right track but am far from being a “rock star”.
You will see learned to inherited traits as you...
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The Importance of the Design
“Visual design contributes so much to the emotional response that people have to our products. It can assuage fear. It can build trust. It can convince people to provide personal information they otherwise would not. It can make them love a product they would otherwise just like. It can motivate them to reach out to their friends. It can persuade them to buy merchandise they...
December 2010
4 posts
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Never Be Satiable
Co-Founder and CTO of Living Social, Aaron Batalion, recently gave a presentation called “The Pivot” and quite frankly, it’s awesome. I included a clip of a part that I can really relate to. Some people call me difficult (and I know I need to do a better job at how I express my feelings sometimes) but Aaron helps me understand why it is that I am this way; because I’m...
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Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager
Once again, thank you Quora!!! Someone answered the question, “What are the qualities of a good product manager?” with a link to download what could be called the holy manuscript of product management. It was written by Ben Horowitz, of the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz and David Weiden, a partner at Khosla Ventures.
It seems to be a bit outdated (potentially written a decade ago)...
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Attempting to answer the question, “What kind of environment creates good ideas” posed by Steven Johnson by reading his book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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Online Home Purchases
Now that I own my own home, I’ve been inclined to buy a few things that I used to hold back on…
A swivel TV wall-mount (from overstock.com for $61.99 + Free Shipping + 3% Cash Back from Bill Me Later’s Cash Back program)
A wireless printer (from shopping.hp.com for $74.19 + Free Shipping + 1% Cash Back from Bill Me Later’s Cash Back program)
A whiteboard! I just ordered...
November 2010
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http://www.svpg.com/recruiting-product-managers/ →
This is a fantastic description for web product managers. Depending on who I’m talking to, I often have a difficult time explaining exactly what I do all day/everyday. This post does a fantastic job explaining why that is; product managers encompass many skills and abilities empowering them to work on many aspects of a product and requiring them to interface with different groups in an...
October 2010
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September 2010
3 posts
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“Anytime you challenge a warrior, a warrior is always going to respond”
– Ray Lewis
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/04/tech-industry-mana... →
Interesting insight into professional development in the tech industry and emerging hot tech companies.
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http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/entrepreneurs... →
I can (and have) spent hours here in the past, and recently started coming back for more. Check it out for yourself.
August 2010
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“Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with $86,400,...”
– Author unknown but it was in the Project and Time Management Foundations chapter of “The Product Manager’s Field Guide” by Linda Gorchels
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“Besides the noble art of getting things done, master the art of leaving things...”
– Lin Yutang, Chinese mystic
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“Identifying competencies is a process of discovery.”
– Linda Gorchels in “The Product Manager’s Field Guide”
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Opportunity - Real Estate
I’m knee deep in the home buying process which has been rather stressful for me (and I rarely get stressed). I think it has been rough because I’ve never been through this process before, and the decisions made will impact me for the rest of my life in a way that no other decision to date has. Choosing a school and eventually a job were big decisions but hardly stressful. The home...
July 2010
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“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
– The farewell message on the back cover of the 1974 edition of the Whole Earth Catalog, and quoted by Steve Jobs during the 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech.
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“…don’t let conventional wisdom force you into making decisions you...”
– Fred Wilson in Some Thoughts on Foursquare
June 2010
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Shattered iPhone 4 Aftermath...
I thought I’d share the attention jaredfranklin.com received following the blog post with photos of the first shattered iPhone 4.
Stats from 6/24-6/25
3,500+ Visits from 76 countries/territories including Isle of Man, which I’ve never heard of
4,300+ Page Views
~30% of Visits from Firefox on Windows
Top Traffic Sources
Gizmodo.com (740 Visits) - First iPhone 4 Broken After...
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Books I've read this year...
I have never been a big reader but this year I set a goal to read a book a month. This has been a daunting undertaking for me considering I’ve never read but a handful of books my entire life that weren’t required for school.
Since December I’ve read…
Linchpin: Are you Indispensable? - by Seth Godin
I Will Teach You To Be Rich - by Ramit Sethi
The Accidental...
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More broken iPhone 4 pics
Note: Aside from the break, I absolutely love the phone so far.
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Broken iPhone 4
UPDATE: Apple replaced the phone without any hassle. The reception appears to be the same as it was with my 3g and I have not experienced any additional problems with the phone.
UPDATE: ADDITIONAL PHOTOS here.
Someone very close to me preordered an iPhone 4 and received it in the mail a day early, on 6/23/2010. Several hours later it looks like this:
The back of it completely shattered. ...
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What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial?
I came across a paper called “What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial” by Saras Sarasvathy which she submitted to HBR in 2001. I think it’s fantastic. You can view it here.
A few points I found most interesting were…
“While casual reasoning focuses on expected return, effectual reasoning emphasizes affordable loss” page 5
“Ready-fire-aim”...
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Some Necessities...
Mint
iPhone (3g and soon 4)
Gmail Google
Yelp
Hulu
Grooveshark
Wikipedia
Academic Earth
TechCrunch
I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Inside Steve’s Brain
Tumblr
Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Craigslist
MacBook Pro
Dropbox
Mountain Dew
The Wire
WWW
Reality Television
Food? Water? Clothes? Car? Income? Shelter?
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Apple II to iPhone 4
33 years ago from today, Apple shipped the first Apple II. I’m super excited for my iPhone 4, but what will dwarf it 33 years from today?
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Yahoo! or Yahoo?
What is Yahoo!? I realized that I visit the site several times a week but not for search. For me, Yahoo! used to be synonymous with search but I don’t know anyone that uses it as their primary or secondary search engine today. So I don’t use the site which is primarily a search engine for searching purposes but I still visit it everyday… They must be doing something right if I...
May 2010
9 posts
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Naive Imagination
I wish I was as imaginative as I was as a child. At one point this morning (during a very light sleep) I caught myself laughing while waking up. I was literally laughing out loud. I forgot what it was I was laughing about after about 5 seconds even though I remember thinking that I needed to remember this. My imagination must have been running wild and I obviously enjoyed it.
I think that our...