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Shawn Roos

On Certainty

Insecurity of one’s ideas is the battleground on which any knowledge worker wages their daily battle.

2 min readApr 13, 2021

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Shawn Roos

Death by a thousand bricks

Tom Meyvis and Heeyoung Yoon summarizes the challenge anyone building products faces:

2 min readApr 12, 2021

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Shawn Roos

Your star employee just asked for a raise. Now what?

Here’s how to avoid the common pitfalls and self-sucker-punches of negotiating raises for your most strategically valuable employees.

2 min readApr 12, 2021

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Shawn Roos

We stand on the shoulders of idiots.

Once again, the world moves forward thanks to the work of a fool.

1 min readNov 14, 2020

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Shawn Roos

On Making.

My process: Make a thing. Change it. Now I have two things. One of these two things is better, both in total and in any particular detail…

1 min readNov 1, 2020

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On Making.

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Shawn Roos

Sad products

This tweet summarizes a complex topic that I’ve been grappling with over the course of the last few years.

1 min readNov 1, 2020

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Sad products

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Shawn Roos

There is a time to learn and a time to unlearn.

1 min readOct 28, 2020

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Shawn Roos

Partners stab you in the front.

First Facebook flatters you, then they kill you. TechCrunch reports that big blue is getting into hosting using WhatsApp for Business as…

1 min readOct 27, 2020

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Shawn Roos

The looking glass

1 min readOct 26, 2020

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The looking glass

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Shawn Roos

Presentations is how Canva uses Canva to build Canva.

For everything from mockups to strategy to collaboration to longer form documentation. If you haven’t yet, check it out.

1 min readOct 26, 2020

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Shawn Roos

Shawn Roos

Product Person in Cape Town, trying to help creators. A curious soul, connective mind with past lives in Advertising, Digital, Insurance and Christianity.

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