Dominik Mayer · Products, Asia, Productivity

I like this thought of James Clear in his 3-2-1 Newsletter: Concentration produces wealth.

For The Atlantic Ed Young followed scientists studying the last giraffes alive.

Apple prototype collector Giulio Zompetti describes what he thinks might be the company’s development and prototyping process.

Chinese Chingkun Tech crated a 195-gigapixel panorama of Shanghai: After taking photos in the Oriental Pearl Tower which is 230 m high and after data treatment for two months, we successfully created this picture, the world’s third largest picture and Asi…

The Washington Post’s national security correspondent Greg Miller tells the story of Crypto AG, a trusted cryptography company with many countries among its clients: But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA…

Chris Humphrey writing for the South China Morning Post: “Vietnam responded to this outbreak early and proactively.

Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly was a backpacker before being a backpacker was a thing.

Visual effects and animation journalist Ian Failes (isn’t that an amazing title?)

I used to take part in many conference call that were exactly as depicted.

Transportation consultant Huber Horan wrote my favorite article about Uber: An examination of Uber’s economics suggests that it has no hope of ever earning sustainable urban car service profits in competitive markets.

In the next fifty years Miami Beach is going to disappear in the ocean.

On his great 3-2-1 newsletter James Clear quotes architect Christopher Alexander (A Pattern Language) about designing a room people love: Light on two sides of every room.

Jack Forster analyzes the Apple Watch Solar Face for Hodinkee and starts talking about twilight: Twilight, as it turns out, is further divided into three phases: Civil Twilight, Nautical Twilight, and Astronomical Twilight, and it is the phases of twiligh…

CJ Hauser in The Guardian: But once I gave up on the banterers, my Tinder chats became uniform.

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In 2003, the philosopher Nick Bostrom made an ingenious argument that we might be living in a computer simulation created by a more advanced civilization.

How a simple rice cooker uses the physical properties of water and magnets to cook perfect rice.

My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind.

When World War 2 started, the Civil War felt as far away to Americans as WW2 feels to us now.

Launched Ho Chi Minh City chapter of Meaningful Discussions hosting monthly meetups.

Launched monthly Product Meetup.

Mastered basic Vietnamese after four months of twenty hours of class per week.

Passed HSK 5, the second highest certification for Mandarin Chinese.

Started working as an independent consultant, helping companies build products customers love.

Co-organized and mentored a weekend workshop teaching customer development.

Andy Grove passed away the same day that Apple announced the iPhone SE.

Ran product management and customer development projects in telecommunication and payment industries.

Apple’s Phil Schiller explains how Apple has perfected its attention to detail over time, and how it manifests in products like the new MacBook.

Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China

A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet.

Panos Athanasopoulos says bilinguals view the world in different ways depending on the specific language they are operating in.

How Xi Jinping took control of China.

Meg Jay for The New York Times: Sliding into cohabitation wouldn’t be a problem if sliding out were as easy.

Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture

James Altucher knows what he’s talking about.

I like both cities but I’m not sure I could live in Hong Kong.

The University of Montreal has found that men who had sex with more than 20 women lower their prostate cancer risk.

I love the movie and I love the soundtrack.

Hans Brattberg from Crisp shares his mindmap.

Many people that call themselves product managers are something else: Project managers, agile coaches, Scrum product owners, … So what does a product manager do?

A Quora user asked for the best productivity apps for Mac OS.

Death is always a surprise.