# Bookmarks #8

> Last updated: 2022-03-22

Look, I know I said I’d start reading and writing more again, but that prediction about reaching autonomy in my job was wrong. I gaining knowledge and making some decisions, but I wasn’t autonomous!

Writing a weeknote about the last 6 months would be good. Probably.

Anyway, here’s some things I’ve been reading since October. You might spot a pattern to the subject-matter.

- [Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/26/facebook-angry-emoji-algorithm/), 5 mins
- [Facebook Can’t Be Saved](https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnykp/facebook-cant-be-saved), 5 mins
- [Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show](https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739), 5 mins
- [Let’s reconsider our “users”](https://jacks.tumblr.com/post/33785796042/lets-reconsider-our-users), 3 mins
- [To Show the Value of UX, We Must Show the Work of UX](https://jmspool.medium.com/to-show-the-value-of-ux-we-must-show-the-work-of-ux-614f06a775c1), 5 mins
- [Willingness to look stupid](https://danluu.com/look-stupid/), 12 mins
- [Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-product-managers-great-shreyas-doshi), 8 mins
- [Process People](https://svpg.com/process-people/), 5 mins
- [TBM 44/52: Three Teams (Boring, Chaotic, Buffered)](https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-4452-three-teams-boring-chaotic), 3 mins
- [Consider your market window as part of your product strategy](https://www.goodproductmanager.com/2009/03/31/consider-your-market-window-as-part-of-your-product-strategy/), 4 mins
- [The Metaverse Is Bad](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/facebook-metaverse-name-change/620449/), 6 mins
- [The Real Reason Facebook Changed Its Name](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/facebook-metaverse-mark-zuckerberg/620538/), 9 mins
- [Meanings of the metaverse: Productizing reality](https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8935), 6 mins
- [The two biggest critiques of web3, analyzed](https://every.to/divinations/the-two-biggest-critiques-of-web3-analyzed), 4 mins
- [Practical Advice for Product Managers Working With Startup Founders](https://www.mindtheproduct.com/practical-advice-for-product-managers-working-with-startup-founders/), 8 mins
- [Notes on Web3](https://society.robinsloan.com/archive/notes-on-web3/), 7 mins
- [What is Web 3.0, Really?](https://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/6448529:BlogPost:1078128), 4 mins
- [Planning for momentum](https://increment.com/planning/planning-for-momentum/), 6 mins
- [Making Things, Fast](https://anildash.com/2021/01/06/making-things-fast/), 3 mins
- [it’s not complicated; it’s just hard](https://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2013/01/its-not-complicated-its-just-hard.html), 1 min
- [Web3 is Bullshit](https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html), 6 mins
- [Keep the web free, say no to Web3](https://yesterweb.org/no-to-web3/), 3 mins
- [“Is Web3… anything?”](https://www.chris-granger.com/2021/12/09/is-web3-anything/), 5 mins
- [Web3 is not decentralization](https://invisibleup.com/articles/38/), 16 mins
- [Against Web3 and Faux-Decentralization](https://soatok.blog/2021/10/19/against-web3-and-faux-decentralization/), 8 mins
- [Auzzie Jay’s Manifesto](https://auzziejay.com/manifesto/), mins
- [Finding warmth in a cold world](https://invisibleup.com/articles/29/), 22 mins
- [The Yesterweb // Keeping the soul of the old web intact](https://teaspot.club/internet/the-yesterweb), 4 mins
- [My public diary](http://publicdiary.ddns.net/index.html), 3 mins
- [Who first said: if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together?](https://andrewwhitby.com/2020/12/25/if-you-want-to-go-fast/), 8 mins
- [Is web3 bullshit?](https://maxread.substack.com/p/is-web3-bullshit), 7 mins
- [An NFT without a Blockchain. No gas fees. No Eth. No gatekeepers](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/12/an-nft-without-a-blockchain-no-gas-fees-no-eth/), 3 mins
- [Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3](https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-its-too-early-to-get-excited-about-web3/), 15 mins
- [The Shipping Great Work Issue](https://koolaidfactory.com/zines/shipping-great-work/), 30 mins
- [Inspection and the limits of trust.](https://lethain.com/inspection/), 7 mins
- [What Do We Know About Time Pressure in Software Development?](https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2021/05/09184214/1mLHZkBtQiI), mins
- [My first impressions of web3](https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html), 17 mins
- [Don’t confuse these 12 shortcuts with iteration](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/12/01/dont-confuse-these-twelve-shortcuts-with-iteration/), 6 mins
- [Still a Startup](https://about.gitlab.com/company/still-a-startup/), 4 mins
- [The 2020 Scrum GuideTM](https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html), 18 mins
- [How We Started Releasing Features Twice As Fast (Case Study)](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/07/how-we-started-releasing-features-twice-as-fast-a-case-study/), 14 mins
- [What Makes A Strong Product Culture?](https://newsletter.bringthedonuts.com/p/what-makes-a-strong-product-culture), 7 mins
- [Without psychological safety there is no learning and there is no agility](https://jeffgothelf.com/blog/without-psychological-safety-there-is-no-learning-and-there-is-no-agility/), 4 mins
- [How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/project-management-in-tech), 23 mins
- [Metrics-driven product development is hard.](https://blog.doubleloop.app/metrics-driven-product-development-is-hard/), 6 mins
- [12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory — 3 Years Later](https://amplitude.com/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory-3-years-later), 10 mins
- [First Principles](https://fs.blog/first-principles/), 21 mins
- [Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper](https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gve4/woman-who-allegedly-laundered-dollar1b-in-bitcoin-was-cringe-youtube-rapper), mins
- [Product Management Stories: Sam Lessin](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/product-management-stories-sam-lessin/), 8 mins
- [Scientists Solve 30,000-Year-Old ‘Venus’ Statue Mystery, Study Says](https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnpbw/scientists-solve-30000-year-old-venus-statue-mystery-study-says), 4 mins
- [“Missing : Working class founders”](https://sifted.eu/articles/secret-founder-working-class-founders-socio-economic-diversity-startups-investors/), 3 mins
- [Things could be good](https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/55532/1/uk-britain-cynicism-nihilism-could-actually-be-good-adam-curtis), 6 mins
- [Workplace serendipity, invention, and lessons from Prohibition 1920-1933](https://interconnected.org/home/2022/03/14/saloons), 3 mins