We ended the week with a fun "after hours" chat in our #OnTheSide community yesterday.
Topics included:

🛹 Chad skating the US coast-to-coast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZGFKZiP5wQ
🏦 Woz printing his own money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDw_YqRaRkU
🤳 Trovster taking selfies with farm animals https://www.trovster.com/photos/18796176718
🤖 my thoughts from #LDX3 https://youtu.be/vSNttDnvxTs

Fancy joining us every Monday or Friday? Let me know.

This week marks 4 years since I started writing #ontheside. The latest is Issue 100 which was a goal I set out to achieve when I started writing.

Wrote a short one indulging a bit in what it means.

https://buttondown.com/ontheside/archive/write-100-things/

Today’s random topics during our weekly #OnTheSide Office Hours:

WordPress is a loop of custom fields. 🖱️

Basic AirPods are banned for podcasting. Tin can audio is a crime. 🎙️

Multi-bay storage boxes beat an expensive NAS. 💾

Daylight savings remains a confusing mess for everyone. 😴

Issue 80 of #ontheside - a weekly newsletter that I write is about working as a product manager.

I am completing on more year at work and it has been a challenging year so far.

https://buttondown.com/ontheside/archive/completing-one-more-year-at-work/

Issue 79 of #ontheside is about working with LLMs and seeing it as working with your reports.

I have been working with LLMs heavily in the past few months. While I continue to get better, it still feels like helping the LLMs instead of LLMs helping us.

https://buttondown.com/ontheside/archive/being-a-manager-with-llms/

Issue 78 of #ontheside is on customer experience in B2B logistics space. It has been a culmination of 6 months of exploration.

https://buttondown.com/ontheside/archive/customer-experience-b2b-logistics/

Issue 77 of the #ontheside features my lament on product building in legacy domains like agriculture and logistics with the help of a paper - A world of standards but not a standard world by Stefan Timmermans and Steve Epstein.

https://buttondown.com/ontheside/archive/ubiquitousness-of-standards/

In issue 67 of #ontheside I write about “What was my progress?”

The main lesson is focusing on how I do small things.

https://buttondown.com/ontheside/archive/what-was-my-progress/

In issue 66 of #ontheside I write about a thread on entrepreneurship and why it is really hard.

https://buttondown.com/ontheside/archive/entrepreneurship-in-early-stage-is-hard/

In the issue of 65 #ontheside is published circling around the topic of progress I have had over the course of year in my journey of being more data driven.

https://buttondown.com/ontheside/archive/flummoxed-and-muddled/