High/Lights

My collected highlights from books i've read.

Readmill Blog: Readmill NYC Meetup!

readmill:

Living in NYC? Using Readmill and loving in? Well, you’re in for a treat. We’re travelling to The Big Apple… and we want to meet you! On Thursday June 7th, at 19:00, we will be hosting our very first Readmill meetup at Swift Bar (that’s on 34E 4th street, to be precise). Check it out:


For example, every single one of us hates to travel nowadays—its just miserable. It’s almost as if it’s engineered for misery from start to finish

—Highlighted by Henrik Berggren in Inspired by Cagan, Marty

When I am called in on controversial product decisions, all too often the group has skipped this step, and is deep in the weeds of each option—everyone passionately arguing his or her case but without a common basis for evaluation. Everyone assumes the objectives and the priority. Even if you have done a great job developing these objectives, you should remind the team prior to the decision process.

—Highlighted by Henrik Berggren in Inspired by Cagan, Marty

So the more latitude you can give your engineers and user experience designers in coming up with the solutions to the problems you are trying to solve, the more likely they will come up with something that customers will love.

—Highlighted by Henrik Berggren in Inspired by Cagan, Marty

This book is specifically written for those members of software product teams—especially Internet software product teams

—Highlighted by Henrik Berggren in Inspired by Cagan, Marty

Gatan knarrade under oss. Hjulen smattrade lätt. Fartvinden ven svalkande. Högalidsgatan ner, såg en kub på ett hus och sedan sparkade jag brädan uppför Västerbron. Jag stannade till, lite svettig, och gick sista biten, lade armen om Lea när hon kom ikapp med cykeln. Det var en närmast tropisk kväll. Mälaren bredde ut sig under oss, himlen höjde sig enorm.

—Highlighted by Henrik Berggren in Tabula Rasa Hotels by Jonas Joelson