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

• Uber Confirms Acquisition of Postmates for $2.65 Billion

• Reddit joins list of apps caught spying on iPhone users with iOS 14 update.

• How Netflix Beat Hollywood to a Generation of Black Content

• How Wirecard Went From Tech Star to Bankrupt

• Tencent launches new U.S. game studio for global appeal.

🌭 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.

• Google's own interactive introduction.

• A Deep Introduction to JIT Compilers.

🍪 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.