Lunchbox #7
Hi from Homeroom. Welcome to the 7th 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
An article on hiring candidates based on "culture fit."
A reflection on how go-to-market strategies will shift after the age of COVID-19.
A guide on how to implement A/B testing, and a talk on the limitations of A/B testing.
🍴 New Tools
MyloDocs wants your documentation to be beautiful.
Run stand-ups through Slack with Range.
Rate the Meeting, an app that can establish feedback loops for your meetings.
RG2G is a one-stop shop for all resources on remote work.
🍿 Perspectives
The Next Phase of the Retail Apocalypse: Stores Reborn as E-Commerce Warehouses by Christopher Mims [Wallstreet Journal]
Robinhood and How to Lose Money by Ranjan Roy [themargins.substack]
No-Code is Eating the World by Frederik Bussler [hackernoon]
🌶 Hot Goss
Dragoneer Invests $120M In CampusLogic’s Financial Aid Platform.
Inside Big Tech’s Years-Long Manipulation Of American Op-Ed Pages.
Companies Made Millions Building Unemployment Websites That Didn’t Work.
🌭 How It Works
This week we're taking a look at Cookies ...
"Give me the gist."
"What's the difference between cookies, sessions and tokens?"
A longer watch [video]
🍪 Dessert
Beware of doomscrolling.
Why valuing the experience over the appearance of life can prove beneficial.
Ireland donates the world’s most successful contact tracing app to the Linux Foundation.
Oxford created ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine triggers immune response in humans, while a UK-based company has created a treatment that could significantly reduce complications.
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