This week, we talk about weaponizing hashtags, co-opting social media movements, and solving hard problems in product design. Spoiler: hard problems are hard. This, plus The Sidebar, some follow up, and cool things as always.
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In this week's Sidebar, we talk about weaponizing hashtags, co-opting social media movements, and solving hard problems in product design.
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