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Lunchbox #6

Jul 17, 2020
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Hi from Homeroom. Welcome to the 6th 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 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

  • Google to invest $10 billion in India.

  • 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.

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