alexanderberman

These would make awesome posters!

I think this is an overly simplistic dichotomy. There are definitely people who are "technical" who wouldn't be the ideal person to build out a big data startup's software (for example). As a founder, they might be more useful in shaping product vision, defining marketing strategy, doing business development etc, but not necessarily actually doing the hands on coding. Is this person technical? Certainly. Is this person building the product? No.

I second the need for a blog post on this!

Just bought the screencasts! Very excited :D

This is awesome! Thanks for providing such a valuable resources to Rails newbies!

Does anyone else see Notes as an Evernote killer?

In no particular order:

* Boomerang by Michael Lewis

* Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

* The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

* The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk

I absolutely love this idea - a very Silicon Valley way to deal with the shortage of quality developers!

This misses the point of what a product manager actually does, though. A PM isn't there to criticize your work or even to manage developers - that's more the project manager's job (or perhaps a lead developer's).

PM's at most companies translate customer feedback into concrete specs that devs can execute on. PMs usually do not have any authority over developers, but instead try to work alongside them.

I really don't understand why devs hate on PMs - they exist to let devs focus on code. PMs create customer personas, user stories, UI/UX specs, and business reports, which are all things that the majority of devs don't want to have to deal with.

This article makes me happy to be a techy!

Wow, the amazing classes just keep on coming! Stanford is really doing a phenomenal thing by making all of these classes free to the public!

Wow this is absolutely fantastic news. I'm thoroughly excited - I want to take them all!