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• Coming to America (01:15)
• Coming to Microsoft (03:50)
• Blaster (09:16)
• Cortana (20:05)
• The Speaker (22:03)
• Trust and AI (31:11)
• Promotion to Partner (40:04)
• Partnerships (46:30)
• What brought Harris outsized joy (55:59)

• Blaster Worm
• COM
• DCOM protocol specification
• Harmon Kardon Invoke speaker
• Send me feedback!

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Track: Lost In Medina — Amine Maxwell [Audio Library Release]
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• Intro (00:36)
• What is a PM? (00:58)
• Remote is hard (03:39)
• Pivotal Moment #1: Moving to Redmond (04:46)
• Great Managers (07:24)
• From Feature Team to Cross-Team Collaboration (08:23)
• Owning cross-company collaboration (10:44)
• From acquisition to a partnership playbook (16:39)
• Creating the Visual Studio Code C++ Extension (17:30)
• Pivotal Moment #2: Becoming a Manager (21:05)
• Autonomy vs. Directed (23:58)
• Has your perception of a manager changed much now that you are one? (25:04)
• Situational Leadership (26:16)
• Coaching vs. autonomy (30:27)
• Pivotal Moment #3: Dev to PM (32:47)
• What brought Rong outsized joy (37:12)
• Outtro (39:46)

• A Great Boss is hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget
• Send me feedback!

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Track: Lost In Medina — Amine Maxwell [Audio Library Release]
Music provided by Audio Library Plus
Watch: https://youtu.be/qNSdpqSkRe4
Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/lost-medina
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• Intro (00:36)
• The mystery of the churning Jupyter notebook users (01:45)
• The importance of understanding your users (09:32)
• From an aptitude test in high school to industrial design (13:05)
• Learning industrial design at Western Washington University (15:10)
• First job out of college (17:59)
• Getting fired from her first job (20:15)
• Becoming an intern again (22:04)
• An opportunity to learn what she really wanted to do (22:48)
• A crash course in becoming a UX Designer, on the job (27:05)
• Why team is more important than technology (30:22)
• Jill is now a full-time employee! (36:03)
• On rediscovering things that bring us joy (38:16)
• How to optimize your Kindle experience (41:03)
• An outsized amount of joy: a plain air tripod (45:05)
• Conclusion (47:33)
• Outtro (48:43)

• Jill's Instagram
• Jill's web site
• AIMS Aptitude Testing
• Libby
• Story Graph

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Track: Lost In Medina — Amine Maxwell [Audio Library Release]
Music provided by Audio Library Plus
Watch: https://youtu.be/qNSdpqSkRe4
Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/lost-medina
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