#100 Media and content tools, 5 year old young black coders building apps and a tool to find a websites styles
So what’s the diff between using a builder like Wix or doing it yourself?
Wix is adaptive not responsive, which means they will not scale for all devices. They are really simple to put together but specific functionality cannot be created within them
Prototyping
A mega collection of cognitive biases and how to use them in product design
A CTO with a lot of time put together a list of cognitive biases that humans suffer from and are related to product management.
Insights
Product and Media are the Leverage Behind the Newly Rich
Naval, who’s got social currency for his streams of consciousness threads on Twitter shares short clips where he touches on society/tech. Naval is the owner of AngelList, is involved in really early stage funding and likes to discuss wealth creation.
Probably the most interesting thing to keep in mind about the new forms of leverage is they are permissionless. Coding, writing books, recording podcasts, tweeting, YouTubing, these kinds of things, these are permissionless. You don’t need anyone’s permission to do them, and that’s why they are very egalitarian
Podsync - Turn YouTube channels into podcast feeds
Simple and free service that lets you listen to any YouTube or Vimeo channels, playlists or user videos in podcast format.
For all you pod junkies
Readwise
Takes all the highlights you’ve made on Kindle and articles and surfaces them for you in a daily email.
Anchor - The best way to make your podcast
Create and host unlimited episodes, distribute your show everywhere, and make money
Makers
Stylify Me - Online Style Guide Generator
Slick tool to get the colours, fonts, sizing and spacing used on a website
Culture Chat
Regular kids, with extraordinary skills
A family of young black coders from North Carolina. You don’t hear about that everyday thanks to the media
Timothy (in yellow) has been fascinated by computers from a young age and has been building apps since the age of 5. At 9 he was creating his own game in Python. He also had guidance from parents and teachers who helped him get into a technology school
Daniel (in black) is the project manager and overseas projects from concept to application.
Eugene (in grey) is the QA and keeps things running smoothly by making sure the code is bug free.
Check out their video here