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A Higher Common Sense

A place for Writings about Evidence-Based Design

  • CS 177 Human Centered Product Management
    • CS177 Human Centered Product Management Syllabus
      • Lecture 5B- Agile and Storymapping
    • Lecture 1A | Introduction to Human-Centered Product Management
      • What do you want from CS177
      • 1A Welcome to CS 177: Human-Centered Product Management 1
    • Lecture 1B | Human-Centered Product Management
      • 1B Strategy for Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 2A | Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 2B | Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 3A – Markets & Tech Stack
    • Lecture 3B — Guest and Value Proposition
    • Lecture 4B – Participatory Roadmaps & Case Study
    • Lecture 5a– Agile, User Stories and User Story Mapping
  • CS247B Design for Behavior Change
    • 1A Introducing Design for Behavior Change
    • 1B Norms, Models, Brainstorm, Screeners
    • 2A Norms and Study Guide
    • 2B Ethics, Persuasion and B=MAT
    • 3A Secondary Research and Theories of Behavior Change
    • 3B Switch, Fraud,
  • Product Management Library
  • The How and Why of Sketchnotes
    • Glossary for Design Techniques
CS247B Design for Behavior Change

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Product sense pushups: personalization

November 30, 2025

For Spotify personalization drives a huge chunk of listening through algorithmic playlists (Discover Weekly, Daily Mix), optimizing for listening time to achieve as much…

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CASE STUDY: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up (Internship Ethics)

November 29, 2025

 As the article mentioned, denying the requests of your superior when starting out definitely makes it seem as though you are difficult to work…

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Product Sense Pushups: Personalization Strategies — Customization vs. Automation – Pratham Hombal

November 29, 2025

Spotify, Linkedin, and Tiktok use different forms of personalization to drive a return on investment for core business metrics. Spotify optimizes through one core…

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CASE STUDY: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up (Internship Ethics) – Pratham Hombal

November 29, 2025

The case captures a dilemma that feels extremely realistic as a past intern. With such limited power, speaking up risks your job, your reputation,…

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Product Sense Pushups: Crisis Management — Error States and Recovery – Pratham Hombal

November 29, 2025

In Slack, error handling is important when messages don’t send or channels don’t sync. Even though this sounds like just a missed interaction, it…

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Protected: BUSINESS: Should We Deploy a Gen AI Salesbot? — Barry

November 29, 2025

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Should We Deploy a Gen AI Salesbot? – Varsha Saravanan

November 26, 2025

I would recommend that PulsePoint catch the Gen AI salesbot wave so it does not lose its competitive edge as the market warms up…

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Product Sense Pushups: Personalization Strategies – Varsha Saravanan

November 26, 2025

Spotify, LinkedIn, and TikTok all use personalization to drive business metrics, but they achieve different goals and get varied streams of ROI from it….

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Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up – Varsha Saravanan

November 26, 2025

Speaking up in a place where a majority consensus goes unchallenged, or where an issue has to be raised against a boss, can be…

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How Different Apps Personalize to Drive Core Metrics

November 25, 2025

Spotify, LinkedIn, and TikTok each lean on personalization, but their strategies reflect fundamentally different business incentives. Spotify optimizes listening time, so its personalization is…

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