Lunchbox #6

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.