+1 the basketball products outside of the NBA, I find more enjoyable and fun to watch but I'm also outside of USA. I often find that players from outside the US and Canada in the NBA more enjoyable to watch also. More casual observers of basketball in my family prefer the NBA.

The article would of benefitted from comparing the FIBA products, Euroleague and NBA. A lot of comments in this post are different under FIBA rules like longer 3pt lines, no defensive 3 seconds, less timeouts etc. However none make more money or have a viewership more than the NBA.

The flow of the game is crucial but has economic tradeoffs. If the NBA wants a slice of the global pie then i think it may need to adjust some of the rules that benefit the economics in the short term.

Does anyone know the legal and liability risk position for a global scale company in relation to where work is done?

Re:fouls.

At my pickups courts we call our own fouls by saying Foul. Perhaps the mic can pickup key words matched the play stopping.

Oh neat, yeah we could some speech to text thing or maybe even some like visual signal thing to call fouls.

Very cool of you to take on board feedback.

In relation to user experience on first try...I just wanted to test it out for 30 second to see if it's worth keeping. I haven't tested now, will have to wait until I get an hour free later because there are a few roadblocks. - You require email and password registration and to click a verification link. Not too bad - When first launched the app asks you to allow mic permissions by clicking settings. However in Hooper settings on Android there is no mic permissions option. Bad. - You require 5gb free to use the product at all. Understandable given storage is required for video but how about reducing that so users can do like a 30-second test for first use? That way they don't have to spend an hour going through their phone's media to see what they want to keep and what they can delete.

You'd be amazed at how many people (like me lol) have almost full storage on their device most of the time.

Edit: oh....it's not a setting for mic permissions, it's a general permissions setting and if you touch that you can add additional permissions. Based on the text of the popup I hadn't guessed that was the right place to look and I hadn't realised it was possible to add permissions by touching that area of the settings menu.

This is very interesting and well executed for the initial release. Good luck!

One thing I found odd was that the default/main screen in the app is a feed. That feed is just short videos without any of the game data the app captures. Perhaps an overlay would showoff the app as well as the skills. The videos by themselves don't add much differentiated value.

Yeah, that could be cool -- we played around with some designs on showing the leading scorer or some ranking in each feed card as well. I can't say we've cracked it yet but I like the idea of an overlay.

Well there's a tonne of great books and articles posted here.

There's some simple stuff that seems worth pointing out:

1. You need to do it more often. Education 10%, Exposure 20% and Experience 70% as a rule of thumb for learning.

If you want to be better at managing, then practice managing more. You're not losing time for solo dev work, you are gaining a new skill.

2. Get a close mentor you can shadow for that 20% exposure time.

3. For delegation, practice using CPORT.C – Context. P – Purpose. O – Outcome in terms of quality and quantity. R – Resources. Then get fast at it by creating systems that do it for you. Queues are your friend.

Have fun.

Chatgpt and writing are a match made in heaven though. Think of it like a faster lower latency more insightful spell checker.

As a consultant paid hourly rates now, meeting invites had a significant drop when I moved from daily to hourly.

I noted that customers were paying me to hang around for 8 hours being on demand for messages or meetings to pop up like a reserved instance.

I guess that long repetitive meeting culture will exist until the systems change to a flipped office.

The sky doesn't complain about the clouds.

To my experience, the trouble seems to be in the external sourcing of feelings like happiness.

If only...I would exercises work for me when considering my intentions. If only I had a fast red car then I'd be happy. If only I went to Paris I would be happy.

I don't mind the article as I take the points as the location of work should match the stages and culture of the team/business. In a weird parallel to "the difference between a house and a home".

If I was being general I'd say that leaders need to focus on creating an environment where people feel secure, engaged and connected to each other. And people are empowered to create this environment for others.

What location this is done in shouldn't be the focus.

Offices, factories, beaches, houses don't have the above because buildings don't create it, people do.

A flipped classroom model for meetings has been useful for me. However the design of time management tools requires some inspection.

The barrier to entry or cost of booking a meeting is significantly lower than the cost of actually having one. Whenever I see this pattern in a system, poor outcomes are found.

The higher up in the organisation the lower the cost to book it, most of the time you can ignore everyone else's schedule.

The design of time management tools like calendars needs updating.

The default calendar setting is Available is another example. As is, free text area for the request body.