Bogdan's Shoutout #4 - Monopolist position isn't so good, Amazon business is a Babel, causality is not correlation
> watch Steve Jobs explaining why Xerox, IBM (and potentially any monopolist company) failed. Very good learnings for a 2:54 min video.
> check why it’s hard to escape Amazon’s long reach and about the hilarious Babel of companies that lives there. More than 600 thousand people spread in hundreds of companies and, btw, an energy venture operating wind and solar farms across US.
> read about the exaggerated promise of the unbiased data mining in this great 4 min article published by Wired (isn’t funny the dead salmon experiment?)
+ a personal comment here: humans are struggling so hard to understand themselves, so after they got rid the God, they started to see patterns everywhere. And a new religion has emerged, replacing the religion of God: Big Data and Analytics (still, for me is so amazing to see how many people are confused by causality and correlation… but can’t argue with the religion, now or 500 years ago, without the risk to be burnt)
> have a look at Aha’s blog (the roadmapping tool for product managers) on what its founder thinks about the Product Manager role. And some techniques to get the job done.
> speaking about product management, read this short post on how we can kill the dogma in Scrum. ‘cause yes, dogma kills agility 😇
> last but not least, check the last projections about the structure of the next European Parliament: more fragmentation, EPP still far the biggest group, right-nationalists getting traction (about 25% of the seats), socialists going weaker.
I very love you,
Bogdan