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Lunchbox #7

Jul 22, 2020
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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.

  • Unsubscribe Gmail emails in bulk.

  • 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

  • Netflix teases desktops-as-a-service offering.

  • Microsoft Analyzed Data on its Newly Remote Workforce.

  • 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."

Quick 5 min intro [video]

"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.

  • A Bug-Sized Camera for Bug-Sized Robots and Bug-Sized Bugs.

❤️ From us

We’re building Homeroom out loud. Check out our first weekly Tiny Closet Update, and join our band of PMs in tech who want to control their career paths + make the workforce more fair.

🎧 listen here.

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