Summary: <p>It’s a Snow Day for Ben, and Derrick shares his woes about setting up his home office with two new, Dell monitors and his MacBook Pro featuring only two USB-C ports for a hub. You would think that laptops would offer more of a variety of ports. Other than that, things are going great for Derrick.</p> <p>On March 5, Derrick pushed out his manifesto via Twitter. In response, people shared, retweeted, and posted supportive thoughts and messages. Developers resonated with his message. And of course, there were a few skeptics who wondered how Derrick’s ideas were different from other team communication and management options. There will always be multiple tools that can be used, but Derrick has a particular approach to what he offers.</p> <p>Today’s Topics Include:</p> <p>Maker vs. Manager: A good way to draw a line between how different people feel about a tool<br> “This is people problem, not a tool problem” There are a lot of people who just don’t get it.<br> Tools help guide the way users use the product and how your team works<br> Some tools generate stress and interruptions rather than constructive work progress<br> Goal: Communication centralized in one place<br> Email is now a black hole, and no longer for actionable items<br> Important information can get lost in all the noise created by some tools<br> Derrick plans to keep his email subscriber list warm by not over-emailing them without a product available yet<br> Derrick has received 400 emails so far as a result of his Twitter push and plans to do outreach, development, and validation with customers<br> Attribution Tracking App: Ben encouraged Derrick to request pre-pay for future products, like for the app he was thinking about building; pre-payments offers validation <br> Derrick has not determined a price plan or how to sell the dream yet<br> Derrick plans to keep thinking through product decisions on pen and paper<br> Deliver on the promise of the tool guiding people to use good communication patterns<br> Tools need to maintain connectedness<br> Entrepreneurship Porn: Share your thoughts, ideas, process, and journey with others<br> Engagement and Authenticity: A give-and-take between you and your subscribers<br> Journal milestones; the more chronicling, the better<br> Derrick’s prototype includes Phoenix, Elixir, and GraphQL<br> Ben shares his experience with Haskell vs. Elm; he has more questions than answers at this point<br> Haskell has a chance of being the gateway drug of functional programming languages<br> Attend meet-ups and conferences to learn more about Haskell and Elm<br> With programming languages, you need to be willing to make some sacrifices<br> Ben is beginning to appreciate aspects of project management and positively influencing processes</p> <p>If you’re enjoying the show please give us your ratings and reviews in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-product/id1243627144?mt=2">iTunes</a>.</p> <p>Links and resources:</p> <p><a href="http://www.benorenstein.com/" rel="nofollow">Ben Orenstein Website</a>; <a href="https://twitter.com/derrickreimer" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a><br> <a href="http://www.derrickreimer.com/" rel="nofollow">Derrick Reimer Website</a><br> <a href="https://basecamp.com/" rel="nofollow">Basecamp</a><br> <a href="https://twistapp.com/?lang=en" rel="nofollow">Twist</a><br> <a href="https://www.drip.com/" rel="nofollow">Drip</a><br> <a href="https://calendly.com/" rel="nofollow">Calendly</a><br> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/37signals" rel="nofollow">Jason Fried</a><br> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/mixergy-startup-stories-1000-entrepreneurs-businesses/id348690336?mt=2" rel="nofollow">Startup Stories Podcast</a><br> <a href="http://graphql.org/" rel="nofollow">GraphQL</a><br> <a href="https://elixir-lang.org/" rel="nofollow">Elixir</a><br> <a href="https://github.com/kasper/phoenix" rel="nofollow">Phoenix</a><br> <a href="https://www.haskell.org/" rel="nofollow">Haskell</a>; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Haskell-Graham-Hutton/dp/0521692695" rel="nofollow">Programming in Haskell book</a><br> <a href="http://elm-lang.org/" rel="nofollow">Elm</a><br> <a href="http://rubyonrails.org/" rel="nofollow">Ruby on Rails</a><br> <a href="https://thoughtbot.com/" rel="nofollow">Thoughtbot</a></p>
