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sksareen1 | 14 days ago | on: Show HN: Smartipedia - Wikipedia for Agents

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sksareen1 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

For what changed my outlook on life? Xenocide - Orson Scott Card. The 3rd book in the Ender's Game saga, it spend a lot of time exploring how people with fundamentally different perceptions and interpretations of the world around them led them to conduct themselves in ways that conflicted with each other, but were virtuous and the right thing to do according to them.

Was a big help in helping me understand how empathy can help to resolve issues and how fundamentally different we all can think - be it medieval humans or alien beings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenocide

sksareen1 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

Flow fundamentally changed how I look at self improvement, optimization and how you can work on yourself

https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/mihaly-csikszentmihaly...

sksareen1 | 8 years ago | on: Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B

I wonder how you'd value Google Play Music alone based on this type of comp. Anyone have an idea of what the number could be like w/ rationale?

sksareen1 | 8 years ago | on: Using YouTube as an Accelerant for the Video Game Business

Great to see major news outlets discovering the gaming industry finally

sksareen1 | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

Same here - especially for export. I'm hesitant about pouring in hours and data into this if it's locked in one place unable to be pulled or migrated.

sksareen1 | 8 years ago | on: A link between video games and unemployment

^Clearly written by a non-gamer.

sksareen1 | 8 years ago | on: Xperia Touch makes any surface interactive

Not sure why the skeptics are all down on this - I think this is awesome. If nothing else it's a great POC product that will get imitated and integrated into other ecosystems (can imagine Google incorporating this into the next Home device), and opens up the world. No use case? Ever needed to watch something, or show something but lugging around a 30'' screen wasn't an option? You can make ANY surface an interactive input device and screen. From consumer to industry applications I see a lot of potential.

If they make this a key product it could grow, but if Sony licenses it out (yes I know they're not really big on that), it could open us up to a whole lot of applications and integrations.

sksareen1 | 9 years ago | on: In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares

Seems like bad reporting: trying to make a mountain out of molehill. It's the opinion of one driver who happened to get his boss on tape, and had a pretty productive discussion wherein the driver pushed and became rude, more so than Travis. The article painted an inaccurate picture of what happened - it's entirely a non-issue imo.

sksareen1 | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Non-technical readers of HN, why are you here?

Agree with this. I'm not a programmer but still work in tech, so find the conversation valuable and at a minimum helps for awareness of issues and trends. Not to mention the non-technical content is pretty valuable and gets trending here before most other places, except maybe some sub-reddits

sksareen1 | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Product Managers, how did you get there and what's your background?

Thanks for the advice, really appreciate the guidance. I hadn't thought too much of Delivery as a source of feedback, but given what you mentioned I see real value in doing so.

sksareen1 | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Product Managers, how did you get there and what's your background?

Also IBM, and I believe MSFT to an extent

sksareen1 | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Product Managers, how did you get there and what's your background?

As an Associate PM moving into full ownership of a product i.e. full PM role, this is the most accurate description of the job I've seen yet. I like to describe the job as sitting in between the cross functional areas (Marketing, Sales, Dev, Exec/Management, Finance, and a whole lot of more logistical groups) to: 1. Own and sculpt the product roadmap and vision by working across the functional groups and 2. Keep everyone on track for the goal and vision of the product. It means supporting sales, leading roadmap discussions, haggling with development, defending development from Sales, using Sales as an information source to go to Marketing, dictating a plan to Marketing, and making sure it all aligns with your vision for the product. Above all, it's owning the P/L and being on the hook when something good or bad happens. That said, I've seen PM roles differ a lot between companies, culture and products, such that a cloud-startup product PM may have a VERY different role than an on-premise software enterprise PM. For example, I have minimal development experience but have yet to see it as a serious impediment to working with my team.