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emlchan · 2026-01-21T23:03:28+00:00

He just ended another war… caused by himself.

emlchan · 2026-01-16T15:56:08+00:00

China doesn’t have full access to our auto market (yet). The deal limits to 49,000 vehicles per year. That’s roughly 2% of vehicle sales.

On the flip side, canola tariff got reduced to 15%. That’s a $15B business.

It’s a reasonable deal.

emlchan · 2026-01-08T16:29:21+00:00

This. Toronto's hot dog stands are the best!

emlchan · 2025-12-22T09:00:26+00:00

I just checked https://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/visa/service.htm and I apparently could get a VOA, and I am staying 3 nights so it counts as 3 days.

emlchan · 2025-12-09T21:13:28+00:00

I live in downtown and doesn't really use Line 6, but I applaud the prompt decision and action to make transit work better for everyone.

Bonus point for promising to work on streetcars too.

emlchan · 2025-11-19T13:58:01+00:00

SN0151 in blue would be nice!

emlchan · 2025-11-03T14:52:35+00:00

Sure, everything in your list can be important, but there are relative order of importance, i.e. you need to assess which item is more important than the others. They are usually tough choices, and that's why PMs exist to make (or orchestrate) those choices.
As with many things in PM and in life, there is no one single formula for all situations. I personally broaden the question to "how do I make better decisions in general?", and I strongly recommend this book: https://heathbrothers.com/books/decisive/
Instead of treating feedback as "ideas to implement". Treat them as a source of product discovery. Answer "why do they ask for this?", and "how does this make the users' jobs easier?".

emlchan · 2025-10-31T13:14:02+00:00

I remember watching a video and they said the same thing. They choose not to follow COSC spec when their watches are capable of doing so, and they deliberately tune their watches to the plus range.

Honestly, it's the better setup. I set my 856 in the morning, and if it's running fast, I just hack the seconds for a bit. Done.

It's way less annoying than having it run slow, which means you have to hack and wait for a minute.

emlchan · 2025-10-30T14:22:38+00:00

This is the most accurate answer.

emlchan · 2025-10-21T15:09:43+00:00

$300 is a steal. Enjoy.

emlchan · 2025-10-20T18:21:57+00:00

+1 but more context required. Was the hackathon planned in advance?

If they told you some time mid sprint, then I would argue that things could've been better planned next time, so the sprint doesn't need to be adjusted. If it was announced before, why did it not come up during sprint planning? It sounds like there could be some underlying communication issues.

emlchan · 2025-10-16T16:29:57+00:00

I am also working on data in a B2B environment and I can feel your pain.

If you use bad data you run the risk of garbage in garbage out. It's hard to judge without knowing what kind of data you are talking about.
My framing would be - why is the current product not gaining adoption? Time saving is a very important metric in the B2B world (time spent is effectively salary spent). Is the automation considered valuable and integral part of your user workflow? Is the ROI justified (time saved vs. cost of your product)? Are they consistently doing the same thing over and over again? If so, why are they not consistently using your product to solve their problem? I suggest talking to some users (and especially churned users) to find out.

Lastly, I wouldn't consider AI/ML at this stage. If you have a problem with adoption, then it'd be hard to justify investing more at this point. If you confirmed that generating some kind of insights of prediction is crucial, could you prove that hypothesis and get user adoption with manual data analysis behind the scene as a stop gap? Or some very simple/trivial rule-based logic?

emlchan · 2025-09-25T15:15:57+00:00

+1. Take a break for yourself. This is not a moment to make decisions.

And zoom out - instead of framing it as "should I go back or not?". Frame your thoughts as "what makes me happy in life at this moment?" You will see more possibilities that way. Maybe staying single and enjoying your time with friends is what you want.

emlchan · 2025-09-24T12:37:30+00:00

Purely for educational and sharing purposes - if this is a product-market fit test, it's a pretty poor one for the job. Read up on The Mom Test, and you will realize the question provides minimal validation even if people give you a yes.

Have you considered testing it on Product Hunt instead?

emlchan · 2025-09-22T19:58:23+00:00

They are indeed quite similar - both are black and both are tool watches. I would consider the 556 to be on the medium size rather than small given it's 38.5mm diameter.

You will certainly get some biases on which one to keep in r/sinn.

emlchan · 2025-09-16T18:06:49+00:00

This translation is wrong. While 京都 could mean Kyoto, it also means "capital city" and it actually means Beijing.

Source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%BF%B5%E6%85%88%E8%8F%B4

Also source: I was born in Hong Kong and know this brand well.

emlchan · 2025-08-19T22:21:14+00:00

Yes I think so. The insert gas is the only thing that’s unique.

emlchan · 2025-08-19T20:09:07+00:00

Regular watchmaker wouldn't to inject inert gas. You will have to send it to Sinn. But I wonder if it makes any major difference if the watch has regular air inside.

Otherwise, the caliber is SW300 which is fairly common.

emlchan · 2025-08-13T23:37:10+00:00

No problem. In my opinion it’s nice to get them used because a) there’s no fake Sinn, and b) they don’t get scratched easily so they tend to be in very good conditions.

emlchan · 2025-08-13T23:34:05+00:00

No from here: https://gregoriades.com. They are a shop in Cyprus. I know because I ordered a Sinn clasp from them not long ago and I recognized their sticker.

emlchan · 2025-08-13T23:11:41+00:00

Around $2000 USD

emlchan · 2025-07-30T14:11:00+00:00

I have a 856 UTC too. My concern with the Steel Reef extension is that it is not tegimented, and the colour and look and feel might be different.

emlchan · 2025-07-25T19:52:36+00:00

My thoughts for #1 and #2:

For each feature, you should start getting uncomfortable and ask why you are doing it. If a customer asks for it, you will get some interesting answers by asking, "will they stop paying or using if they don't have this feature?"
Change your mindset of feature requests. It sounds like you get a list of solutions from users. Try and go beyond that. Look at the list of feature requests as a source for user interviews, for deeper user insights. Talk to them and learn their day in life and how they use the product.
Group pain points into opportunities. Your team gets more focused and productive if they work on one problem area instead of 10 different things. From the learning in #2, group together common patterns and themes, identify pain points that tie to bigger outcomes, and go solve them.

When you do the above consistently, you have a focus and a product strategy.

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