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17 Oct 2022
The Secret Product Manager Handbook is perfect for new product managers.
One reader said "I love your book. I have recommended it to all the PMs I mentor. In the past month probably 10. Not kidding. It is a gem. I wish I read it 15 years ago when I was getting into product."
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Commentator: I think Japan thinks they're taller than they really are, because whenever they get a corner kick, they kick it high and the Dutch, who are taller obviously headbutt it away
*2 minutes later*
Japan shoots another corner kick, teammate jumps and actually headbutts it into the net
Equalizing the score (2-2)
Commentator: I owe an apology to Japan
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Jun 14
🚨 VINI JR JUST TOLD FIFA: “WE’LL PAY THE FINE — BUT NOBODY FROM US IS DOING HALF-TIME INTERVIEWS.”
During Brazil’s World Cup match, Vinícius refused the mandatory tunnel interview.
Reporter: “You’ll get a huge fine for this.”
Vini: “We’ll pay. But nobody is coming to the mic.”
This isn’t arrogance. It’s players finally saying enough to FIFA’s corporate circus.
Half-time should be for tactics, water, recovery — not feeding the broadcast machine while the game gets sliced up for ads (sound familiar with those forced “welfare” breaks?).
FIFA under Infantino has turned football into a product. Mandatory everything. Player focus as an afterthought. Suits in Zurich cashing in.
Brazil and Vini just pushed back. Raw. Direct. No bowing to the machine.
The beautiful game belongs to the players on the pitch — not boardrooms selling every second.
Who else is done with this?
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Jun 14
The excessively goth lady in that post is Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, arguably the first sci-fi novel. And a LOT of fantastic and classic scifi since then has been by female authors too.
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Jun 14
Washington loved Lafayette so deeply that after Washington died, Lafayette visited Mount Vernon and reportedly slept on the floor of Washington’s room out of grief and respect. Their bond went far beyond war. One of the greatest friendships in American history. 🇫🇷🇺🇸
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Jun 14
When General Pershing and his staff landed in France with the American Expeditionary Force during WWI, one of their first recorded statements was, “Lafayette, we are here!”
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Jun 13
On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.
The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.
Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.
He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.
He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.
A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.
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Jun 14
If Trump tries to threaten the G7 to save Putin, the G7 should make the meeting all about Jeffrey Epstein. I'm pretty sure the French, Brits and Germans have the files. Show Trump their cards. Just like Putin did at Helsinki.
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Jun 15
This is a good summary. The US and especially Trump for electoral reasons needs the war to stop. But Iran gained a lot from the conflict while the US achieved nothing. Trumps price was to stipulate an agreement to negotiate on nukes. But that’s what the US and Iran were doing before the war started. So the nuclear component certainly looks like a fig leaf to give Trump some plausible deniability about how badly this went for the United States. As Dan notes, the US has no real credible threat of force left, certainly not before midterms. This end game was basically inevitable from the first hours or days of the conflict. But we waited three plus months because Trump couldn’t face the reality of the scale of his defeat. And there’s still a good chance this falls apart because he still can’t come clean on that. Altogether, just a great job.
Jun 14
Until the text of the US-Iran deal is signed and released, there is going to be a lot of spin on both sides. But here is my initial take.
This war was a mistake, and it needs to end. The President thought that the Iranian regime would collapse quickly, but it did not. In fact, it has been strengthened strategically by its survival against a heavy US-Israeli assault and carrying out some effective counterstrikes. Many countries in the region are now courting Iran and looking to deescalate and rebuild ties. A sign of which way the wind is blowing.
Getting the Strait of Hormuz open is the most important outcome of this MOU. Of course, the Strait was open before the war. Now we are paying to reopen it with sanctions relief. Iran has taken a theoretical point of leverage and turned it into a very real and powerful one, imposing costs across the global economy and rattling President Trump.
As for the nuclear issues, there really is no agreement, other than to negotiate over the HEU stockpile and an enrichment moratorium. Iran knows how to drag out those negotiations, and try to pocket concessions along the way. It is possible that no deal will every be reached, and very likely that if one is reached, it will be worse than what we could have achieved through diplomacy before the war.
Iran is not likely to take seriously that the US would return to war, certainly before the US midterms. So that means we will be conducting diplomacy without a credible threat of force.
If any agreement ultimately reached actually safely puts Iran's nuclear ambitions out of reach, I'll acknowledge it. It's just too early to make that judgment.
Trump is mainly focused on comparing his deal favorably to the JCPOA. But we are a long way from being able to make that comparison, and it may end up no better, or weaker than that deal.
But in some ways, Trump's deal and the JCPOA are already similar. Nothing on ballistic missiles, nothing on proxies, nothing on weakening the regime or helping the Iranian people. And plenty of sanctions relief that will strengthen the regime, and be poured into the missile program and proxy network. Honest critics of the JCPOA will not twist themselves into pretzels to defend Trump's approach.
Israelis are deeply disappointed in this outcome, but they should not be surprised. After some initial overlap of Trump's and Netanyahu's interests, there was a strong divergence. The United States needed this war to end. Netanyahu wanted to continue.
Trump's claim to include Lebanon in the ceasefire and his harsh shutting down Israeli attacks on Hezbollah is also a win for Iran. After the JCPOA was signed, Obama and Netanyahu worked together to strengthen Israel's campaign of strikes in Syria to intercept Iranian weapons shipments to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
So let's hope we see the removal of Iran's enriched uranium and a long-term suspension of enrichment, with full verification. But to achieve those goals, Trump's team is going to need to engage in far more sophisticated diplomacy, backed by qualified experts, than they have to date. If it is a phase one splash with no follow-up on implementation of later phases, like in Gaza, we will be much worse off after, and because of, this war.
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Julia Roberts: Renee Nicole Goode is not a symbol. She is an American woman, a queer woman who was doing the very best she could do to be good in an unjust world.
And I am honored to celebrate her life and her legacy tonight, because the life she gave is our responsibility to carry.
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Jun 15
The libtards who hate Elon are so ignorant of capitalism that they don’t understand why a company that barely breaks even should be worth $2 trillion.
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Jun 14
JD Vance will one day have to explain to his kids how he protected a pedophile rapist and covered up the rapes of many teenagers and children.
Cheers if you think JD Vance is a pork-bellied, pedo-protecting skid mark 🍻
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Jun 14
To everyone wishing Trump a happy birthday: Don’t forget that Virginia Guiffre won’t have the chance to celebrate her 80th birthday. I haven’t forgotten her, nor the many other victims. One day, those responsible will pay for their actions. It’s only a matter of time.
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Jun 14
NYC, we gotta keep outside summer going. Use all our new Knicks projectors to play World Cup matches on a random Tuesday. Have Spike Lee movie marathons on the side of your building.
$20 cocktails and bar snacks: OUT. Bodega beers and bags of chips: IN
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The last time the Knicks won the Championship, the President (Nixon) resigned not too long after. Let's keep that level of hope today.
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Jun 14
Ancestry-dot-com is really fumbling the chance to advertise to American soccer fans during the World Cup. "Are you rooting for Germany? Are you SURE you shouldn't be rooting for Sweden? How about a DNA test?"
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Jun 14
“Capitalism gave us the internet.”
Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
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Thank you to the thousands of City workers who kept New York running throughout the Knicks’ Finals run as well last night after yesterday’s celebrations.
To the members of the NYPD, FDNY, EMS, DSNY, DOT, and every City worker who showed up, did their job, and helped keep New Yorkers safe: I cannot thank you enough. Whether you were responding to emergencies, staffing events, directing traffic, cleaning our streets, or working behind the scenes in ways most people never see, your dedication made this historic moment possible for millions of New Yorkers.
By the time many of us woke up this morning, the city was ready for another day because of your work. I join millions of your fellow New Yorkers in saying thank you.
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Jun 14
Hey shouldn’t they be reporting what’s in this audio for the public rather than putting it in a book to make money for themselves?
Confused how this is acceptable
SCOOP: Top White House officials believe NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their new book.
Such a taped leak would be a shocking breach of one of the most secure settings on Earth. axios.com/2026/06/14/trump-s…
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