This is always a no win situation. I am actually a male product leader and it was written by a female product leader. It is much easier to write (and read) with a "he" of "she" vs "they." We are sensitive to this issue and do our best to mix the pronouns in posts. Thanks for the comment.

Indeed. The guide contains many ridiculous "insights" like a budget and target selection of clothes for your wardrobe.

Yes, I totally agree. It is important for it to be a collaborative effort, but the PM must surface the customer and market feedback and suggest what new functionality is required. After that, a deeper team discussion benefits everyone -- including the customers. Good comment.

I have a gmail account for email too. I am talking more specifically about a news portal. Any thoughts there?

If you are looking for an Enterprise SaaS app -- you might want to check out Aha.io

We put a lot of thought into it and sourced the best design talent we could find. Originally, we were going to go with a totally flat design, but ended up with a hybrid approach. We found that a semi-flat design improved usability in our early tests with customers.

I am not so sure. Playing a game on the TV is equivalent to what my kids do on their smartphones. Now, because their smartphones are Internet connected they do end up discovering new ways to entertain themselves and more importantly research topics they are interested in. However, most of the time spent is still for entertainment.

I was referring to myself. I want to be online and know who has signed up, who needs support, how the next project is progressing. I am not selling pixels or chips.

> I was referring to myself.

Yes, exactly.

You have an interest in people getting a lot of screen time. You wonder, therefore, whether we should be limiting our kids' access to computers. I reply that the fact that you might have an interest in my kids spending a lot of time using computers, does not mean it is a good thing for my kids to do. Nor does it give me a reason to relax any restrictions I might place on them.

Ok, so you actually are a reader. I think your point is true for all news sites. And just fyi, Marshalls is also on the West Coast.

Big time reader (and contributor). Fell in love with it from the first day, couldn't wait to be invited. It's certainly gone downhill a bit since it opened up to everyone (spotted spam a few times), but still some great writers that choose it as a distribution platform. And thanks on Marshalls, lol.

It's interesting that you think they are manufactured. I find the non technical content on par with what is posted to HN. Can you share more about why you have this opinion?

Part of it is volume. HNSearch suggests medium got 425 submissions in the last 4 weeks. That's a higher submission volume than TechCrunch (327), ArsTechnica (193) or the BBC (195) or even The Guardian who broke most Snowden/NSA news (181).

Belying this volume is an almost complete lack of quality. The most popular 10 articles in the last 4 weeks from medium and the above sites:

medium:

    150  136  107   47   32   28   17   16   14   13

TC:

    462  183  175  146  141  120  113   99   80   74

Ars:

    524  316  271  212  183  170  149  122  121  109

BBC:

    915  167  166  123  110   93   81   75   59   58

Guardian:

    388  328  293  185  184  183  182  156  162  149

The best of medium is just not very good anymore and it's a sharp and sudden fall into very forgettable content which makes you wonder why it's even submitted let alone so much.

Can you tell me more about why you avoid it? What is it about Medium that turns you off?

For me, it's because Medium is frequently poorly researched and/or written blogspam. The URL provides no context about who or what wrote it.

Ok, so you perceive it to be more spammy with lower quality content than HN or other sites. What other sites are at the top of your pyramid? Also, are you a dev?