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ONE MILLION CHECKBOXES – 03:20
Are You a Checker or an Unchecker? (paywall)
The Secret Inside One Million Checkboxes
Nolan Royalty on X
‘Infinity Blade II: ClashMob’ Uses the Cloud, Crowd-Sourcing for Group-Based Gaming

ON KITCHEN FAUCETS & BRAND VALUES – 12:09
Generative AI x Product with Anmol Anubhai
That Much-Despised Apple Ad (paywall)
Design Thinking: Failure or Fall Guy?
Toolbox: How “Jobs To Be Done” Can Help You Make, Better
Touch vs Touchless Faucets
Are touchless faucets for the kitchen worth it?
Hansgrohe Select Technology
Axor Citterio Kitchen Faucet with Select Technology
Why is my LG Washing Machine using 3.6GB of data/day?

STEVE JOBS, CORNING & BEING UNREASONABLE – 29:07
The Science and History of the iPhone Screen
Founder Mode

NEUTRON JACK – 33:45
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
How Jack Welch’s Reign at G.E. Gave Us Elon Musk’s Twitter Feed

CLOSING – 39:14

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Generative AI: step change or snake oil du jour? We enter this mire with Anmol Anubhai as our guide & insight into the future of GenAI x product creation as our destination. Join us for a refreshingly grounded conversation on a topic that’s typically full of hype.

FOLLOW-UPS – 01:42
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N Manual Mode Changes Performance EVs Forever
WTF is a Product Manager?
Dare Obasanjo on Product Management at Figma Config 2024
Dare Obasanjo on Threads
Shreyas Doshi on Threads
Shreyas on why product management is hard

GenAI x PRODUCT WITH ANMOL ANUBHAI – 07:45
Anmol on LinkedIn
Meet Figma AI
Shane Allen on Figma AI
Mira Murati: Conversation with Dartmouth Engineering
Why Apple’s iPad Ad Fell Flat
Figma’s AI app creator accused of ripping off Apple weather app
Adobe’s new terms of service say it won’t use your work to train AI
Instagram is training AI on your data
CHI 2024: Evaluating Human-AI Partnership for LLM-based Code Migration
Why companies are turning to ‘citizen developers’

ANMOL’S ADVICE TO COMPANIES – 32:08

AI INTERFACES BEYOND THE BOT – 34:45
Google: People + AI Guidebook

CULTIVATING MENTAL MODELS – 42:37

WHO’S DOING THIS WELL & WHERE’S IT HEADED? – 48:12
AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft

WEEKLY RECS – 56:44
Anmol: Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning Collection & Amazon PartyRock
Joachim: BOOX Palma
Ernest: Earthworks Audio ETHOS microphone

CLOSING & PREVIEW – 01:08:48

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The pressure to repeat history, as in the previous year’s sales for a given product, can be pernicious. We share ideas for unshackling yourself from this weight so that you can avoid, as Marshall McLuhan put it, marching backwards into the future.

FOLLOW-UPS – 00:43
Humane is looking for a buyer
Coffeezilla on the Rabbit R1
NOMOS at Watches & Wonders
NOMOS: The icon in 31 color compositions
Noel Gallagher on Jimi Hendrix
The Panic Over Smartphones Doesn’t Help Teens (paywall)

THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY – 21:57
Reuters: Retailers slash prices on more Nike sneakers
Porsche 914, 924 & 944
The Failure of ‘New Coke’ Is a Lesson for Engineers
BMW’s EV success: learning from past failures
The Athlete’s Voice
An Interview with Nike’s Phil Knight
Steve Jobs Explained the Best Decision He Ever Made
Prevent Defense
Why Reed Hastings Should be Applauded for Netflix Split
Volvo Spins Off Combustion Engines
BMW 2002
Hoffmeister Kink

WEEKLY RECS – 58:19
Read: Starbucks’ Digital Dilemna
Avoid: Yoto
Pentagram on Yoto
Watch: The First Omen
A Battle With The Devil And An NC-17 Rating

CLOSING & PREVIEW – 01:15:50

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