The Art of Product

64: Habits for Hackers

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Derrick shipped Level’s Daily Digest feature, which includes a summary of unread/read posts, sampling of posts/replies, and call to action. Also, thanks to Derrick killing it on Twitter, Art of Product’s social media presence is now legit!

Branding and awareness of Ben’s Tuple pair programming tool has garnered interest from well-known companies. So, it’s time to set a deadline for Tuple’s alpha.

Today’s Topics Include:

  • Ups and downs of building a feature
  • Good Brain Hacking: Know yourself and have a strategy; try something from your toolbox to change your perspective
  • Ben designed the Habits for Hackers course; the experience was 50% amazing and 50% arduous - getting better at design through a trial-and-error method
  • Ben’s Design Tips: Copy existing things, read design tweets and watch refactoring UI videos from Steve Schoger, and have friends who will tell you when something isn’t good
  • Your success is a lagging indicator of your habits; Ben wants to be held accountable for practicing good development/work habits

    • Links and resources:

    Art of Product on Twitter

    Derrick Reimer Website

    Derrick Reimer on Twitter

    Ben Orenstein Website

    Ben Orenstein on Twitter

    Level

    Level Manifesto

    The Level Journal

    Tuple

    Tuple’s Pair Programming Guide

    Habits for Hackers

    Postmark

    Ruby on Rails

    GitHub

    Elixir

    Tailwind

    Steve Schoger

    Steve Schoger’s Refactoring UI

    Adam Wathan

    Sketch

    The Bike Shed

    Atomic Habits

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