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🥦 Getting Better
A thinker on how to pivot product strategy during COVID-19.
A nostalgic reflection on the ritual of "Release Night" which launches into excellent feature flag best practices.
A case study from Mixpanel on how they identified behaviors that drove customer love.
🍴 New Tools
Feedback Fish is a feedback collection widget that's lightweight.
aCe can easily tell you if your website is accessible or not.
Miro's new LiveEmbed feature that functions as a whiteboard within other work tools.
Macro can customize your Zoom meetings' interfaces.
🍿 Perspectives
Black Influencers Are Underpaid, And A New Instagram Account Is Proving It by Ashley Carmen [theverge]
Is It Time To Kill The Penny? by Greg Rosalsky [NPR]
Job Interviews Don't Work [Farnam Street Blog]
🌶 Hot Goss
Instagram thinks it can do TikTok better and it's going to try.
Microsoft's AI Chatbot will become its own independent company in China.
Spotify is launching podcast charts to help people discover new shows.
You can now stake your claim in Apple’s $500 million iPhone slowdown settlement.
🌭 How It Works
TikTok finally explains how their 'For You' algorithm works. [WIRED]
🍪 Dessert
Remotefit helps narrow down the remote job search by culture fit.
Lego made a 2,600-piece replica of playing Mario on the NES, available August 1st.
Insecam links to network surveillance cameras across the world without a password, a scary look at what's accessible on the internet.
This website shows what it's like to read with dyslexia.