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Memoirs of an Antisemite

Pedro Gonzalez's Mea Kinda Culpa

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Keep The Internet Free

Keep The Internet Free

A free and open internet is vital for our democracy and for our daily lives. But the Federal Communications Commission is considering a proposal that threatens net neutrality – and therefore threatens the internet as we know it. Former Verizon lawyer and FCC Chairman Pai wants to reverse hard-won rules that protect millions of internet users’ access to a free and open web. Instead of treating the…

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Code is Law: Lawrence Lessig

Code is Law: Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig speaking at Chicago: Keynote at the ABA-Tech conference What regulates behavior? Law, Norms, Market, Architecture How does the Law affect these things that regulate? Restrictions, restraints, reality of physical space What is the mix of modalities that works best? There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the…

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Defective By Design

You’re probably confused about your media usage rights, and media companies are ok with that This is a reposting of work submitted by Zak Rogoff on April 27, 2017 – 12:23pm Read the full post: https://u.fsf.org/26y Even if groups like Defective by Design currently have an uphill battle to fight, the free software and free culture movements are as strong as ever, and our activism, entrepreneurship…

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Ash Maurya On Product/Market Fit

Ash Maurya On Product/Market Fit

Two webcasts worth viewing about Product/Market Fit from Ash Maurya, still relevant today, 10 Steps to Product/Market Fit In this webcast presented by Ash Maurya, author of Running Lean, 2nd Edition, he discusses the 10 steps you need to know to get your product/market fit. By following the Running Lean techniques, you will learn to eliminate waste—whether it’s time, money, effort, or all of the…

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Getting To Product/Market Fit: A Panel Discussion On Apr 27 in San Francisco

Getting To Product/Market Fit: A Panel Discussion On Apr 27 in San Francisco

Powered by Eventbrite Join a Panel of Experts to hear first hand experience of successes AND failures across a broad spectrum of startups and products to achieving product/market fit. AGENDA 6:00pm – 6:45pm Networking 6:45am – 8:15pm Panel Speakers, Interactive Q&A 8:15pm – 8:30pm Job notifications, other announcements Questions to ponder: How exactly do you go about getting to product/market fit…

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People First: Product Excellence By Design Principle One

People First: Product Excellence By Design Principle One

People come before money. Listen to Simon Sinek speaking at Baruch College Read the Transcript: Simon Sinek says: “I’m an idealist. I sort of imagine a world that’s different from the world we live in now. I imagine a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired to go to work, feel safe when they’re there, and return home at the end of the day fulfilled by the…

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Dieter Rams Ten Principles of “Good Design”

Dieter Rams Ten Principles of “Good Design”

Good Design Is Innovative : The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology, and can never be an end in itself. Good Design Makes a Product Useful : A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria,…

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Action Guide To The Open Internet

Action Guide To The Open Internet

We are at risk of The End Of A Free And Open Internet As We have come to Know, Expect and Depend on it: Reuters and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that the new chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is speeding up his plan to slash FCC net neutrality rules. [1] If net neutrality is repealed, the Internet will never be the same. It will open the floodgates for companies like Comcast and Verizon to…

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UX Mini Workshop on March 30 in San Francisco

UX Mini Workshop on March 30 in San Francisco

SUPA Product Academy in conjunction with Aconex would like to present an evening of UX POWER TALKS on March 30 in San Francisco! AGENDA 6pm – 6:45am Networking with Alcohol, soft drinks and delicious pizza 6:45am – 7:30pm The Benevolent Dictatorship of Collaborative Design with Marcin Treder, CEO of UXPin 7:30pm – 8:15pm Does my app look fat? with Kirsten Mann, GM Global Design & Experience at…

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Building Products of the Future Within Legacy Systems and Cultures

Building Products of the Future Within Legacy Systems and Cultures

Join us at the December 20, 2016 Women in Product NYC Meetup! Lean startup, user-centered design, and agile development have inspired a new wave of digital product experiences and development practices. However, for many Product Managers that are challenged with legacy products, technologies and development approaches there are many questions, including: • How do we make the right decisions to…

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Podcast Series: Developing The Lean Spec

Podcast Series: Developing The Lean Spec

Join in on the discussion! Cindy F. Solomon of SUPA Product Academy chats with Malcolm Knapp of the Engineer Accelerator to figure out how to apply the process that Malcolm teaches for creating the vision for a product prior to building it. The “lean spec” is a product specification requirements process that Malcolm has developed and implemented over many years of building hardware products and…

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S.H.E. Summit 2016 - A Refreshingly Authentic And Inspiring Women's Conference

S.H.E. Summit 2016 – A Refreshingly Authentic And Inspiring Women’s Conference

By Caroline Hane-Weijman I was lucky enough to snag a free ticket to the second day of S.H.E summit 2016 from one of our client’s at Pivotal Labs. After being underwhelmed by previous women’s conferences I’ve attended in the past, I was blown away by the quality of speakers, the content that emerged, and the overall atmosphere of the summit. I feel other women forums I have attended have…

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Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

There’s a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. ‘Re-Thinking Progress’ explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works – designing products that can be ‘made to be made again’ and powering the system with renewable energy. It questions whether with creativity and innovation we can build a restorative economy. Find out more…

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Report From East Bay Women's Network Tech Max

Report From East Bay Women’s Network Tech Max

by Cindy F. Solomon I was honored to be one women among a diverse line up of women speakers this week at the TechMax conference in the San Francisco East Bay.  It was produced by the East Bay Women’s Network and Tumikia WatuKhuthaza Read more about it from the storify I created from curated content, pics and tweets.   [View the story “TechMax: Technology For Business by East Bay Women’s Network”…

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Rock Against the TPP!

Rock Against the TPP!

Rock Against the TPP: A nationwide uprising to stop the biggest corporate power grab in history: the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Rock Against the TPP San Francisco Friday, September 9, 2016 @ Regency Ballroom Concert 5pm – 11pm. Free! RSVP required. Featuring: Jello Biafra, La Santa Cecilia, Built for the Sea, Ryan Harvey, Bonfire Madigan, Evan Greer and more!…

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