Lunchbox #5
Hi from Homeroom. Welcome to the 5th edition of Lunchbox, a weekly-ish curation of cafeteria fodder for product managers. If you’ve been sent this email and you’re not a subscriber, you can join by clicking on the big button below.
🥦 Getting Better
A quick read on the differences between feature and component teams.
A list of 4 recent design books contextualize design within the current times. A thoughtful take.
🍴 New Tools
Teleport lets your team know how and when to reach you via Slack integration (Mac only)
SpreadSimple creates a website with a ton of features based on your google sheet data.
Loopy, a fun visualization tool for systems thinking.
Landbot.io is a no code chatbot builder that got a lot of love last week on PH.
🍿 Perspectives
What a Better Social Network Would Look Like by Will Oremus [onezero.medium]
Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the Future of Online Speech by Anna Wiener [newyorker]
🌶 Hot Goss
🌭 How It Works
A look at Web Assembly.
Getting started with Web Assembly [10 mins] by Engineer Man.
A longer introduction to Blazor web assembly [45 mins] by Steve Sanderson.
🍪 Dessert
Debubble helps twitter debates.
A collection of websites inspired by old school desktop UIs. We recommend checking out Denzel Curry's site and visual album.
A gorgeous, data-backed blogpost with visualizations on the current trends in thrifting.
Weblings will make that new tab you just created a little more happy.