Product management is a little bit like magic. It's like making wishes about what you want to see in the world (in the form of PRDs) and they come true a few weeks or months later.
Of course, those wishes take the amazing craftsmanship of designers and engineers who turn thoughts into reality.
Genius is the ability to...
Think laterally about how 1+1=3
Reduce the complex, to the simple
Correctly map past patterns to current situations
Correctly extrapolate trend lines to intersection points into the future
Interacting with some of the smartest people in their field, in the world, is such a gratifying and amazing experience.
Fascinating analysis
Special Uber Snapchat filters in the Feed. This is so cool. Congrats to Holly and team.
Context: Uber C.E.O. to Leave Trump Advisory Council After Criticism
This whole thing sucked...
1. The truth was totally distorted and lost in a false media narrative (Uber didn't lower surge to break the Strike, Travis/Uber do not support Trump)
2. It revealed the dark underbelly of liberal rage (lack of nuance, black and white thinking)
3. We lost the ability to have a strong, liberal, rational voice near Trump (Travis takes no shit. Better than only having Bannon and other sycophants hanging around)
4. We rewarded a company (Uber's competition) for playing PR games with a serious situation (not to mention their board member - Peter Theil - *actually* supports Trump)
5. We diverted attention from real injustices and scary behavior by the administration (like putting Bannon on the Security council)
6. We missed an opportunity to focus this kind of wrath on real issues to affect meaningful change
I agree with Devin
"Well, change sure is a complicated thing. Change was effected here at Uber in the past week.
The question is: does this choice by Travis help or hurt the country's chances at changing the policies that Trump's administration has already laid out? I'm not sure - I still believe that taking a seat at the table is better than pounding on the window outside (though of course that's not true if the people at the table won't listen).
This action sends a strong message about the power that we the people have -- I do hope it leads to more (and more accurate) grassroots movements in the days ahead.
As a nation we are raw right now. Raw is dangerous. Raw is impulsive. But raw is also super powerful. When we point a hose of anger and action at something, it moves. I hope we as a nation figure out how to use the tool most effectively."
Our rockstar Uber Dev Platform mobile tech lead Ty gave a talk recently
As society fragments further between the Haves and Have Nots, we will see more and more super luxury experiences like this that compensate for totally broken social services that government has failed to provide. Not because government is ineffective, just because the people who have run it (bought and paid for by special interests) made an intentional decision to make it ineffective.
This is huge. Full end-to-end Uber experience, right in the Google Maps app. Powered by the open Uber API.
New year, new look: ride services mode gets an update
Thought experiment: Would you rather a better title at a distant second company or a lesser title at the top company in the space?
Uber lost $2.8 billion in 2016. Will it ever become profitable?
Vox is the only real news media left as far as I can tell
More beautiful work from friends at Uber
(Uber’s new tool gives cities a mind-bogglingly detailed view of traffic patterns
The most ridiculous interview I've seen in a while. The "expert" seems to be arguing that we should turn off Facebook Live because there's violence in the world. Insane.
We make our tools and our tools make us. What tools like Facebook Live are doing are revealing the worst (and best) of the world to us.
This doesn’t encourage more violence. That's ridiculous. If anything, showing the disgust and consequences of this video might deter others from repeating the act.
This is another super slick implementation of the Uber Trip Experiences API. This time from Garmin.
Introducing the Uber ETA app for Garmin wearables
I think, right now, If you had a meaningful company doing interesting things and offered remote work (outside the US) paying US dollars/rates you could attract a lot of top talent.
Watch this video
The headline is wrong. It's not about working with millennials. It's about living, loving and meaningful connections in today's day-and-age.
h/t Nik LiveLife
(Video reference: Simon Sinek Explains the Millennial Paradox on Delta Protective Services’s Facebook)
