Nan Yu
@thenanyu
Head of Product @linear
I generally write about product and technology from a practitioner's point of view. A thread with of some of my most load-bearing perspectives:
for the record I mentioned The Design of Everyday Things #BuiltDifferent
The top 20 most mentioned books on my podcast
Defaults matter!
Cloudflare’s move to block web sites from AI crawlers by default sounds good to content factories like newspapers, but I suspect for most authors on the web the first thing you should do is deactivate it. If the models are blind to you then you effectively don’t exist.…
Sometimes it takes a healthy amount of ignorance to ask the right questions. This redditor, new to tech, is wondering aloud why companies don’t just do work trials and instead do endless batteries of leetcode and hypothetical questions, in the name of “rigor”… good question!…
If you work in SaaS this is required reading for you this weekend
it's friday, and never bring software to a fight with expert and their well-kept spreadsheet benn.website/p/saas-20