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Amir is the founder and CEO of Switchboard, a remote startup building remote collaboration software that recreates the feeling of being in a room, having all of the resources you need, and jamming as a team. Amir’s a six-time entrepreneur that pioneered comparison shopping (Shopping.com, IPO, acquired by eBay), programmatic advertising (Adap.tv. acquired by AOL) and AI assistants for meetings (Tookee, acquired by LogMeIn). Amir’s favorite tools span CRM, product, marketing, analytics, and team culture. This collection is helping him build the best remote company that’s focused on building the best remote collaboration software. It’s quite meta.

My name is Elizabeth Yin, and I’m an entrepreneur turned investor. One thing I’ve noticed post-pandemic is when I’m on the go, I no longer need a laptop. My iPad + apps on it are so good and so much faster than a computer. Apps like Superhuman allow me to process through email quickly — even when I’m offline. I use a combination of apps to help me get from hundreds of emails to Inbox Zero everyday. SaneBox filters out mass emails, Superhuman is great for triaging and snippets, and Boomerang helps me pause my inbox so I’m not constantly reading email all day. The other thing I’ve changed over the years is that I no longer buy physical books, and I rarely buy books in general. The Libby App allows me to connect to many libraries - for free - and I can listen to audiobooks through that app.

Every year I do an informal survey on Twitter asking product managers, designers, engineers, and researchers what's in their product stack. These are results from this year's poll: some of the most popular tools used by product managers in 2022.

Seldom do I upgrade my MacBook Pro, and even less frequently do I get a chance to start fresh with a clean macOS install — but that’s exactly what I did when I upgraded to my first M1 MacBook Pro. It gave me a chance to remove a lot of cruft and apps that I really no longer used while also introducing new apps that enabled new behaviors. Below are the apps that I either use most often to get my work done, or subtly but significantly change the way that I operate in my digital environment. For example, I use Hyperkey to reclaim my Caps Lock key, and instead use it to activate Alfred, my preferred desktop launcher. Given the number of calls I do, I use Krisp to clean up my audio, Opal to look good, and Fathom to take notes and transcribe my calls.