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"6 ayda aldığını 1-2 günde geri verebiliyor. Bu hafta her yer %30-40 dolu. Dolayısıyla ayıda bırakıp gitmemek, marketin nabzını tutmak önemli. Elbette aylar içinde ufak tefek testereye para kaptırılıyor ama o da bugünleri"

"Everyday conversations just got easier with the new Apple Messages plugin. Search messages, catch up on conversations, draft and send replies—all with ChatGPT on your Mac. Now available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on des"

"Ideas, essays, and projects by Steph Ango."

"Kuzey Ege’de nerelere gidelim! Bölgeyi çok sevdiğimi bilenler ve yolu düşecek olanlar çok fazla öneri soruyorlar. Ben Ayvalık’tan başlayarak sevdiğim yerleri yazayım, kendime de not olsun, ayrıca bilenler farklı yerler"

"Every end of the year, I sit down to do some personal reviews, as well as collect my notes. Since I have hundreds of meetings with founders and tech leaders worldwide every year, looking at it all …"

"Be audacious"

"I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could be better. I'm the only person responsible "

"Every year, we make predictions. Our missives on 2025, made in October ’24, registered the most direct hits since we first pulled out our Ouija board a decade ago. Our objective isn’t to be right — though that helps — bu"

"Parties are a public service; here's how to throw them."

"For the seventh year in a row, the Future Perfect staff — plus assorted other experts from around Vox — convened near the end of the year to make forecasts about major events in 2026.  Perhaps in keeping with the year we"

"“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” — Alvin Toffler This marks the eighth consecutive year I’ve pulled together a list like "

"⚡ Advanced Maestro Testing: Event Validation & AI-Powered Test Generation Building reliable, scalable, and intelligent test automation for Android apps. 🧭 Introduction In Part 1, we explored …"

"When your boss loves you, you have options. Here's how to give them what they need, so you get what you want. Bring solutions, not complaints; keep your manager in the loop; over-communicate, and more."

"Here are phrases I often use when sharing feedback because it makes it easier for me to speak openly and quickly, and encourages my recipient to take action."

"How to turn your idea into a working prototype in minutes"

"Good PMs take full responsibility and measure themselves by the success of the product. Bad PMs have lots of excuses."

"A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching."

"The Internet is dead. The best we can do? Try to save it. Bringing you a regularly updated, curated collection of..."

"How to master the emerging skill that can make or break an AI product"

"How to set up Cowork, Claude Code, and Dispatch as a PM. Skills, plugins, self-improving knowledge bases, and the CLAUDE.md router pattern."

"AI-enhanced software development has shown what's possible; doing the same for the management of process work is also possible if leaders can focus on what matters"

"The four hardest senior engineers to manage and how to coach them."

"The hardest part of adaptive leadership is practicing it when the system pushes back. Over decades of studying leaders in politics, medicine, and business, Ron Heifetz at Harvard found that those who made progress under "

"For 15+ years, B2B leaders with per seat models treated DAU/WAU/MAU as something B2C companies obsessed over. We had ARR. We had NRR. We had logo retention. Engagement was a “nice to have&#82…"

"Reflections on moving from scrum to shape up (and from maintenance mode to high output and happier engineers)"

"What to actually look for when hiring a PM, distilled from people who've made the hire many times over."

"Hard-won rules from building product at Pandora, the kind you only learn by getting them wrong first."

"As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance cycle: is this engineerin"

"The top 100 applications for LLMs, according to users."

"Learn a security-first approach to building web applications by building a secure project management platform with Next.js."

"We’ve read a lot of strategy at this point in the book. We can judge a strategy’s format, and its construction: both are useful things. However, format is a predictor of quality, not quality itself. The remaining questio"

"If prioritization doesn't hurt, you haven't actually prioritized — you've just made a list."

"Caring personally and challenging directly at the same time — most managers can only manage one at a time."

"I got asked again last week: “What’s the difference between KPIs and OKRs?”The person asking was a PM at a mid-sized company. Smart guy. Been in product for five years. His company had just rolled out OKRs and he was sta"

"Linear's principles for building software: quality over speed, consistency, and why doing things differently requires conviction."

"The stories of the product managers behind six genuinely great products, and what they actually did differently."

"A team without a compelling product vision is a team building features, not a product."

"Think of it as a recipe for success in adulthood."

"A practical guide to building fast, scalable, and reliable web apps"

"Learn 50 essential system design concepts in one place - scaling, CAP/PACELC, sharding, caching, queues, reliability patterns, and security. A fast, practical primer for beginners and interview prep."

"The most common AI terms explained, simply"

"OAuth was first introduced in 2007."

"A guide to using AI as a long-term thinking partner (including prompts to get you started)"

"20 rules to follow when crafting Claude Skill Skills are instructions paired with scripts & resources that Claude loads dynamically to improve its performance on specialized tasks. Think of skills"

"Most professionals waste $20/month on ChatGPT and get pocket change in return. The smart ones invest 10 minutes in setup and extract $20,000 in value."

"The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan."

"Model Context Protocol - A Deep Dive"

"A web developers guide to browser internals"

"How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories"

"You've read Team Topologies and everyone has come together to do some event storming and map out some domains. You've used this to produce a new technology strategy around microservices and an organisational structure wh"

"Latency, throughput, and bandwidth are the core metrics that describe the performance of a network or distributed system."

"AI coding assistants became game-changers this year, but harnessing them effectively takes skill and structure. Here's my workflow for planning, coding, and ..."

"Frontend System Design: How Modern Social Feeds Are Designed and Built"

"Turn AI coding assistants into more reliable development partners"

"Struggling to finish side projects due to limited time? In my latest blog post, I share how I improved my productivity using AI tools like LLMs and Cursor IDE. Learn to refine specs, bootstrap code, and iterate effective"

"YOU ONLY HAVE TEN SECONDS TO SHOW YOU’RE A SOMEBODY"

"Strategies for living intentionally."

"Blog post: Agentic development basics by Steve Klabnik"

"Who, what, where, when, why, how"

"The best ongoing resource for mental models, decision-making frameworks, and learning how to think. Dense, rigorous, worth the time."

"The gold standard for online personal knowledge archives. Deeply researched long-form essays on statistics, psychology, AI, and many other topics."

"How can I influence others without manipulating them? I explore five doors of influence: rationalising, asserting, negotiating, inspiring and bridging, to persuade with respect."

"On a supposedly difficult thing"

"Acting on impulse often feels good at first, but brings trouble later. Understanding these urges can help you control them"

"Smarter AI Systems with Retrieval, Autonomy, and Memory"

"We're a quarter of the way into the new century. To mark this milestone, we asked the UK's top minds to highlight some of the game-changing scientific breakthroughs shaping our world since the year 2000."

"Improve the quality of your decisions by focussing on three key elements."

"Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you'll get real work done. Interactive visualizations show the math behind bad days."

"Change the board the game is played on"

"People don’t care about you"

"can remember very well many of the conversations I had with Leo. What he did so well was to quickly realize the law of averages and know that to get a single reply, a large number of emails must be sent to bloggers for a potential guest post. This knowledge meant he rarely felt bad if he didn’t get a response. Instead he knew it’s just the way it works. What is perhaps even more powerful than just knowing about ratio thinking, is that Leo used this knowledge to his advantage. If he wanted to get a single guest article published, he would sit down and send 5 emails. We had around a 20% success rate based on the emails Leo sent"

"People who are obsessed with being happy tend to wind up less happy than everyone else There's a growing body of evidence behind this idea. In the book, David cites a study that found people who were asked to read about the benefits of happiness were less happy after watching a happy film than people who read something unrelated"

"Mercier and Sperber prefer the term “myside bias.” Humans, they point out, aren’t randomly credulous. Presented with someone else’s argument, we’re quite adept at spotting the weaknesses. Almost invariably, the positions we’re blind about are our own."

"Doing so requires engaging with one of life’s fundamental questions: Are we in charge of the ways we change?"

"Base questions of the goals for the coaching — here are some general areas:strengthsweaknesseswhat’s it like to work with them? Do you enjoy it? Look forward to it?what would you like the person to know about how to best work with you?what does this person have to learn to be successful at the next level"

"There is the daunting issue of what constitutes a meaningful way of life in a world in which all talk of purposes has become obscure."

"He settled near Montparnasse in Paris, where a group of intellectuals gathered around him in the cafs of the Left Bank, especially the Caf de Flore. He participated in the founding of the underground group Socialisme"

"Keep giving new things a try. Have hobbies. Develop different sides of yourself."

"In Discourses and Selected Writings Epictetus said: Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, “Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test."

"No one can say for sure, but here is a stab at it. Live as if you died, but were resuscitated and every minute was a gift. Every person you meet is an opportunity for kindness. Don’t read for show, read to be better. Be forgiving of others, but don’t demand forgiveness for yourself. Try to hold as few opinions as possible. Pick a “Cato” and judge each difficult decision with: “What Would ____ Do?” Practice good spending habits (keep in touch with poverty). Always consider the worst case scenario. Keep a list of what you’ve learned from other people (and remember to thank them often). Get up early every day—as early as you can. Take cold showers. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

"Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. — Epictetu"

"s to reduce suffering (dukkha), and anger squarely gets in the way of that goal."

"Everything has two handles … If your brother acts wrongly towards you, don’t try to grasp the matter by this handle, that he is wronging you, but rather by the other, that he is your brother and was brought up with you…"

"oysa sorun onu değiştirmektir. - Karl Marx"

"Short-form video is the logical outgrowth of an increasingly oral culture. - Katherine Dee - Start a free trial today for full access."

"relationships, studies show that a good, strong relationship needs at least a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative interactions."

"For Jung, synchronicity didn’t just account for coincidences, but also ESP, telepathy, and ghosts. And to this day, research shows that people who experience more coincidences tend to be more likely to believe in the occult as well"

"One 2014 study of more than 3,000 people in Finland found that the amount of sleep that correlated with the fewest sick days was 7.63 hours a night for women and 7.76 hours for men."

"Happily Ever After doesn’t exist. Every day you wake up and decide to love your partner and your life—the good, the bad and the ugly. Some days it’s a struggle and some days you feel like the luckiest person in the world"

"“You’re both in charge of your own happiness,” B.R. says. “You can’t make someone else happy. You can help, encourage, and support, but it’s up to all of us to find our own path to being happy people.”"

"Some species experience negligible senescence — they show little to no diminishment with age."

"When people think of poverty they think in terms of money and material resources, but a large part of being poor is suffering from a lack of social connections and networks, and living in a low-income area with no infrastructure that enables the leap up to the middle class."

"We know, "no idea is a bad idea," but brainstorming is often unsuccessful. These prompts actually work. They could even lead to a unique business model."

"Hi there, it’s Adam from Untools, Most people bury the lead in their business communication. They save the important bit for the end, forcing readers to wade..."

"97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. One survey revealed that “39% of jobs in the legal sector could be automated in the next 10 years. Separate research has concluded that accountants have a 95% chance of losing their jobs to automation in the future.”"

"Communicate more effectively than your competition."

"They discovered that the sweet spot for headline length is between 12-18 words."

"Every time you solve a problem you create one” — Kevin Slavin (6)“In a system there are no side effects, only effects” James Paine, MIT (7)"

"Skills let you teach an agent once and have it apply that knowledge every time after, instead of re-explaining it in every conversation."

"The most successful implementations use simple, composable patterns rather than complex frameworks."

"Context engineering is the natural progression of prompt engineering: curating what the model sees, not just what you tell it."

"Getting agents to make consistent progress across multiple context windows remains an open problem — the harness is where you solve it."

"A lead agent that plans and delegates to subagents exploring different aspects of a question in parallel."

"An agent's capability is determined by the tools it has access to — planning without the right tools is just talk."

"A running collection of the patterns that actually show up when you build software with coding agents, not the patterns people imagine."

"Private data, untrusted content, and external communication — combine all three in one agent and you have a straightforward path to data theft."

"Tasks that used to take five years and a research team now take API docs and a spare afternoon."

"The opportunity solution tree is a game-changer for structuring discovery work."

"The 'appetite' concept — deciding how much time a problem is worth before solving it — is something every PM should internalize."