As a product manager, making decisions is a big part of the job. While we all want to make the right decision every time, sometimes things don't go as planned. It can be tempting to try to stick with a decision, even when it's not working, but I've learned that it's better to be able to reverse course and make a new decision.
A little while ago I (finally) got myself a decent desk and set up my workspace. It’s set up next to a window, which is nice (even if the view is of a brick wall). I’ve even got a window box - look Ma, I’m a proper adult.
A list of tools I'm currently using
If a task MUST be done, it belongs in a to-do list If a task is ASPIRATIONAL and REGULAR, it belongs in a habit tracker
On Monday 4th November I opened my to-do list and was greeted with 149 due tasks.
mailto: provides a way of creating hyperlinks in websites that will tell your computer to open the default mail client and create a new email without the user having to copy and paste the email address. You can even pre-fill the message subject and content.
Expressing ideas and thoughts — whether by some hurried doodle on a post-it or with a finely crafted sentence in a leather-bound journal — is incredibly important.
Life can often feel like a journey towards a specific goal, be it happiness, wealth, expertise, or fame. And just like in artificial intelligence, achieving our goals can be seen as an optimization problem. But what if we thought of life itself as an AI search problem? What lessons could we learn from the various search approaches used by computer scientists and mathematicians?