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https://blog.toggl.com/lightbulb-cartoon-developers/ Are you a developer? Do you know what “frontend” really does? Or “ops”? →

https://medium.com/helloitsmagic/why-most-blockchain-projects-are-bullshit-2e3918439270 And How to Spot the Ones That Aren’t This is a good overview to blockchains and mountains of bullshit talk circulating around it: “The key to separating uses with promise from bullshit projects is asking what can onlybe done with the specific features blockchains provide, and whether those things are worth doing or having. →

https://www.sadanduseless.com/work-meeting-lifehacks/ This is a sneak-peak selection of the 20 funniest tricks you should totally use from book “100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings“. →

https://www.fastcompany.com/90230417/5-causes-of-burnout-in-the-workplace Have you noticed any recent changes in your coworkers? Burnout can happen to any employee in any company–even in the best work environments. Burnout tends to occur when someone in your team encounters at least one of these five circumstances listed in this article. →

https://predictabledesigns.com/how-to-develop-and-prototype-a-new-product/ Whether you’re an entrepreneur, startup, maker, inventor, or small business this guide will help you understand the new product development process. →

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44858238 Google has been fined a record €4.34bn ($5bn; £3.9bn) over Android. The firm’s parent Alphabet has been given 90 days to change its business practices or face further penalties. The European Commission said the firm had used the mobile operating system to illegally “cement its dominant position in general internet search”. →

https://predictabledesigns.com/top-resources-for-hardware-startups-and-makers/ Hardware startups and makers can use all the help they can get. It can be difficult, however, to find resources for developing a physical hardware product (as opposed to software). This article has a list of 30 online resources for those developing new electronic products. This article was originally published on PredictableDesigns.com and there →

https://www.medengine.fi/en/almost-unstoppable-rise-finnish-health-tech/ The Finnish health technology field is booming like never before. In 2017, health tech exports broke new records as their value rose more than 5% to over €2.2 billion. The fact that the Finnish health tech field is thriving is hardly new: over the last two decades, the value of health tech export has →

https://venngage.com/blog/font-psychology/ The promotional poster might have more to do with it than you realize. Specifically…the TV show’s title font. You may have heard about color psychology before. But have you heard of font psychology? So when it comes time to design an ad, or a product label, or a logo, put some thought into the →

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/20/wtf-is-gdpr/ GDPR is a significant piece of legislation whose full impact will clearly take some time to shake out. A major point of note right off the bat is that GDPR does not merely apply to EU businesses; any entities processing the personal data of EU citizens need to comply. The extra-territorial scope of GDPR →