There is rarely an incentive to claim responsibility. And in the case of finding a smoking gun held by some national, the geopolitical consequences of pointing a finger are consequential. Nations must decide if those consequences are in their favor. For Nord Stream, pointing their finger either at Russia or Ukraine would result in consequences that are not in Nato's favor.
Yes. And be sure to follow up with a robust customer interview to discover the why.
Executing a customer interview discovers the why behind feature requests.
If you leave it at the Sales and CS level you can end up with requests like I want to export to Excel. Sure, build that feature, but you risk missing the bigger picture.
Why does the customer want to do that? What’s their pain/problem/opportunity/JTBD?
You may uncover it is to integrate with another system, to give their boss a report, or to do some data analysis.
As a PM your job is to not build what customers are asking for, it is to solve the underlying need in line with your product vision and company strategy.
There's a big difference between "a customer asked for this once" and "people need actual human help to accomplish X, because it's not working nearly as well as we advertise it to work, and we're spending a huge chunk of our time compensating for a design flaw with human intervention."
We got our girls, 5 and 2, a Spirograph for Christmas.
With the provided felt tip pen inserted and the outer circle tacked down, I still really struggle to complete circuits without the circles jumping over each other and messing up the drawing.
I don’t remember it being like this as a kid. It felt much more relaxed and natural.
As someone who stupidly committed to laser cutting 30-odd spirographs for my four year old's birthday bag treats last year and ended up realising what a stupid idea that was for that age group - you need to go with ball-tipped pens, be they Bic Biros or whatever.
Crayons are useless, felt tips are too grippy and even pencils aren't much good, as there's too much friction, especially when the hole size is quite tight.
As I remember the trick is to press more toward the ring and not as much sideways. The hardest are when you use a big wheel and use the pen hole nearest the wheels edge - its a bit like the fairground ride that gives you whiplash. I have used glitter ink ballpoints and also pencils with multicolor lead.
Not just regular ball point pens, but with a rather long tip.
You take a modern, generic Bic pen, and the tip is angular. It's a cone shape, ending in the ball point. The Spirograph pens had their ball point at then end of a tube that was about a 1/4" inch long.
I can see if someone pressed really hard, at an angle, how you could bend or break the tip. But it was perfect for Spirograph, because it just went straight in, and was strong enough to drive the gears.
I can see how using modern felt pens may be the modern, common (as in really easy to get off the shelf pens for) solution. But, a felt tip us not a ballpoint and could suffer different issues working with something like a Spirograph (such as splotching).
And stay away from gel pens, what a smeary mess that must be.
I think my cousins and I ruined more than one kitchen table cloth with our inky leaky pens and the spirograph. The physics of the angular momentum I felt gets lost on digital solutions. Is a carnival ride for your hands and fingers.
I remember it being fairly easy to control, and I'm far from a particularly coordinated person! The set came with ball-point pens IIRC though, not something with a felt-tip, so maybe the more solid tip helped maintain control?
Our 4-year-old got a Spirograph Junior for Christmas which he's enjoying - the outer gear in held in place by the frame so there's a bit less to go wrong.
My Velux roof windows do this automatically for me every day. Works great as they won't open if it is raining or too cold. Sucks that the radiators don't turn off at the same time, so some wasted energy there.
Do you have any control of the radiators? I have Velux GGU windows too and plan on doing Home Assistant integration for precisely the reasons you mention plus some automatic shading based on sun position or light sensors. For this I understand you need a KLF200 interface [1] and of course HA integration [2], then the integration possibilities are pretty much endless.
I have Tado TRVs and do have a HA instance. I’m stuck though, as I like the functionality from Tado like home/away, and VELUX like the automations. I’m not sure I could get as good a result by coding that all up in HA.
I begged for a BBC Micro and got a ZX Spectrum. Turned out to be much better at getting me interested in programming, even if the Spectrum was on the way out.
> The simpler hardware of the Spectrum was much more approachable.
I'd contest that assertion. I was 15 when when my folks bought my BBC Model B. It was a far more interesting machine to hack around on than the Spectrum. The BBC was set up my future as a software developer.
Apologies. I also meant to say that the BBC was just as approachable as the Spectrum then lost my train of thought after the phone rang :) I found the Spectrum super frustrating to use, especially with that dead-flesh membrane keyboard.
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