Educate Tomorrow's Buyers with a Developer Content Program
This week on DevEducate, Erik Dietrich joins me to discuss what we need to think about when creating an effective developer content program.
Kamran Ayub
How to generate wildly unique combinations of different ideas
Yesterday I shared a creative thinking tool I never leave the home without called attribute listing. That should get you unstuck immediately but it only gives you a 1D-view of the topic you need ideas on. To generate 5-10X more ideas that will likely lead to totally unique combinations that
The simplest creative tool anyone can use to cook up unique ideas
Stuck trying to come up with ideas on a topic? There is a classic design tool that you can learn in the next minute to get you unstuck on almost anything (and get you excited in the process). When we design games for game jams, we only have 72 hours.
McMansion strategy
There is a phrase we use to describe those suburban developments with tract homes that all look the same – McMansions. They are builder homes and they all follow the same architectural design and layout. They are modern and look nice but they all look the same. You can go ahead
Here are some reasons why developers are motivated to learn
Ever asked what motivates your community to learn? It's not your product. The reason lives at a higher abstraction than that. Here are some examples: "I think about the future I want to live and then remind myself I can’t show up for others and not
No users, only learners
Unless you believe that learning suddenly stops at some point, when I think about the audience of a development tool, there is never a point where someone stops being a learner. If someone is trying to understand how to integrate Kafka with your API, they want to learn. If someone
