How an abundance mindset makes better OKRs
I’ve mentioned the idea of an abundance mindset over a scarcity mindset on this blog before. The short of it, as Steven Covey writes, is that, “Scarcity mentality refers to people seeing life as a finite pie, so that if one person takes a big piece, that leaves less for…
Read MoreArticle: How Functional Programming Can Help You Write Efficient, Elegant Web Applications
Many things can make software more challenging to understand and, consequently, to maintain. One of the most complex and problematic causes is managing internal mutable states. When the internal state is poorly managed, the software behaves unexpectedly, leading to bugs and fixing, which introduces unnecessary complexity. FP solves this problem…
Read MorePodcast: Great Products Need Closer Collaboration Between Product, Engineering and Design
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Maria Fernandez Guajardo about how product management has evolved, with the need for closer collaboration between product, engineering, and design, especially in the age of AI. By Maria Fernandez GuajardoRead More
Read MoreFood for Agile Thought #463: Product Transformation, The Aha! Framework, PMs & Technical Expertise, Are Scrum Masters Overhead?
TL; DR: Product Transformation — Food for Agile Thought #463 Welcome to the 463rd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 42,865 peers. This week, Christian Idiodi shares product transformation tactics to empower product managers in a podcast with Aakash Gupta, while Maarten Dalmijn questions the necessity…
Read MoreTransforming cybersecurity with Elastic Search AI: A game-changer for Proficio
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, maintaining robust cybersecurity defenses has never been more critical. Proficio, a leading managed security services provider, faces the continual challenge of monitoring an expansive array of data points and potential vulnerabilities. With the mission to safeguard its clients’ infrastructures, the Proficio team needed an…
Read MoreThree steps in mapping out your modern platform strategy
As AI adoption speeds up, one thing is becoming clear: the developer platforms that got you this far won’t get you to the next stage. While yesterday’s platforms were awesome, let’s face it, they weren’t built for today’s AI-infused application development and deployment. And organizations are quickly realizing they need…
Read More🧠 Community Wisdom: Learning how to delegate, structuring a product discovery process, joining a competitor, automating analysis of user requests, and more
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Read MoreAre Scrum Masters Too Much Overhead?
I have a surprising confession to make: when I was working at start-ups or scale-ups, I never wanted to hire a separate Scrum Master. Yes, you’re reading that correctly: never. Thanks for reading Maarten’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I wanted to do…
Read MoreThinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconventional product advice | Alex Komoroske (Stripe, Google)
Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Brought to you by: • Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments• Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security• Coda—The all-in-one collaborative workspace — Alex Komoroske is a strategic leader who merges the practice, theory, and mindset necessary to tackle complex problems. He spent 13 years at Google, where…
Read MorePatent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public!
Back in February, we celebrated our victory at trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas against patent trolls Sable IP and Sable Networks. This was the culmination of nearly three years of litigation against Sable, but it wasn’t the end of the story. Today we’re…
Read MoreHow open source AI can improve population estimates, sustainable energy, and the delivery of climate change interventions
Data for Good at Meta is open-sourcing the data used to train our AI-powered population maps. We’re hoping that researchers and other organizations around the world will be able to leverage these tools to assist with a wide range of projects including those on climate adaptation, public health and disaster…
Read MoreHow students teamed up to decode 2,000-year-old texts using AI
research and copywriting by Emily Akers What began as a challenge to decipher texts buried for centuries under the ashes of Mount Vesuvius quickly turned into a historical breakthrough using AI and GitHub tools. Three students—Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor, and Julian Schilliger—worked together across time zones and borders to unlock…
Read MoreThe 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report: Forecasts and recommendations
Yesterday, Elastic Security Labs released the 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report, a comprehensive look at more than 1 billion data points from Elastic’s unique telemetry. The report provides insights into the methods, techniques, and trends of threat actors from the perspective of defenders — giving crucial insights for security teams…
Read MoreHow Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack
Since early September, Cloudflare’s DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks. Cloudflare’s defenses mitigated over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout the month, with many exceeding 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3 terabits per second (Tbps). The largest attack peaked…
Read MoreReact at Meta Connect 2024
At Meta, React and React Native are more than just tools; they are integral to our product development and innovation. With over five thousand people at Meta building products and experiences with React every month, these technologies are fundamental to our engineering culture and our ability to quickly build and…
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