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@productnerd.bsky.social
Product Ops Evangelist. Toronto. Any Pronouns. Community Builder. Scaling great product orgs. Loves complexity and healthy teams. Coping with memes. Supporting ODLAN.ca. Find my stuff: https://linktr.ee/productnerd
Airtable was just acquired by Bending Spoons. Goodbye to Airtable. If your business runs on Airtable or worse, if your business IS Airtable, you need to make an exit plan. I wrote about what this means for small business owners. www.revenuerulebreaker.com/airtable-was...
Airtable was just acquired by Bending Spoons. Goodbye to Airtable.
If your business runs on Airtable or worse, if your business IS Airtable, you need to make an exit plan
revenuerulebreaker.com
Ages ago, me and @forssto.bsky.social were talking about the similarities between product managers and record producers. It's something I keep coming back to.
The Punk PM #58
Don't Just Play, Produce
tobyrogers.beehiiv.com
As long as we are talking about whether programmers gatekeep I will repost the essay where I argue that even being a "gate opener" is still being a keeper of the gate and will be until our shared conception of technical ability changes. www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot...
Why I Cannot Be Technical
With some regularity, kind-hearted Technical people tell me that I Can Be Technical, Too. This usually happens when I’m asking us to define what we’re calling technical in a software environment. I un...
fightforthehuman.com
'In these 2-hour workshops, we will be working with photographs from the Image of the Black (IB) Archive. Created between the 1960s and 1990s, the archive contains over 30,000 photographs documenting representations of people of African descent in (primarily) Western art.' 13 July, Warburg Institute
Whose Bias? Ways of Seeing: Community Workshop
history.ac.uk
AI can be your scribe, your thought partner, data-stitcher, or your counselor. And AI can be your consigliere, your spin doctor, or your propagandist. Team superpowers. Or Orwellian Ministry of Truth. cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-428-ye...
TBM 428: Yes, Robot. Yes, Boss?
AI can be your scribe, your thought partner, data-stitcher, or your counselor.
cutlefish.substack.com
This is such an interesting simulation and I really like the message behind it :) (Plus interactive math! My weakness!)
wavebidder.bsky.social@wavebidder.bsky.social · 5mo agoncase.me/polygons/
as promised, here is my post on AI and ethics. I think unilateral disarmament in the face of powerful new tools is neither wise nor effective. I think those of us in tech have a particular responsibility to engage, participate and build better solutions. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/make-ai-bo...
Make AI Boring Again
On the ethics of engagement, the problem with purity politics, and a world worth fighting for
charitydotwtf.substack.com
Haters gonna hate, but the people who want to understand what meaningful science looks like and understand how to enact real and impactful change are gonna get this book :)
Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 5mo agohello, last year an academic engineering reviewer said my developer open science project on identity threat and belonging was "too much psychology for a software audience" and now my ebook is a #1 seller in COMPUTERS POST ARMY RISE
1/ Major Canadian experts in internet security and privacy - like @rondeibert.bsky.social, @openmedia.org and @cancivlib.bsky.social - are absolutely freaking out about Bill C-22. They’re sounding massive alarms, warning that it could:
Do you know what it would take to cancel your current project? I’m willing to bet that for many the answer will be no. This is why so much time and money is wasted in busines. We search for the evidence that proves we were right, without even knowing what would tell us it was wrong.
i share that belief. i wrote a whole piece about it: charity.wtf/2025/06/19/i... but -- i think that the best way to become a good engineer, is to work on a high performing team with other great engineers, and that means a team with engineering discipline.
In Praise of “Normal” Engineers
This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engi…
charity.wtf
alright friends and computationists, what are the signals you pick up on that make you think a team has high engineering discipline? (whatever "high" means to you) i'm not talking science or evidence. i'm talking casual conversation, heuristics, no evidence whatsoever, just radar. what trips it?
The government says they’re tackling surveillance pricing (thanks to the NDP) but they’re not. It’s a smokescreen open.substack.com/pub/badbitch...
Surveillance pricing will cost us
Despite the defeat of their motion to ban surveillance pricing, the NDP has kicked over a dormant hornet’s nest of affordability issues.
open.substack.com
"We don’t need techniques for keeping the ground steady, but practices for living well on ground that moves." - Jerrold McGrath (h/t @biancawylie.com) poorfooting.substack.com/p/vulkan?r=2...
Vulkan
A volcano, a laugh, and the maps we inherit. On why disorder might be more useful than stability and what Icelanders know that the rest of us don't.
poorfooting.substack.com
today in dystopia watch: all your pokemon go scans helped train a system for killer drones
Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN@scherawyss.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
I’m thinking a lot right now about automation and efficiency. We spend a lot of calories talking about AI, but I don’t see that same energy being put towards truly impactful changes: mostly because they’re largely invisible More importantly, those transformations have to be won bit by bit
AI shopping assistants act like trusted advisors, but they may be nudging users toward sponsored products instead. As retailers integrate tools like ChatGPT into e-commerce experiences, writer Vass Bednar questions who these agents are really working for. https://thewalrus.ca/ai-shopping-assistant/
next thing toilets are going to start going up in price because of the ai race
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 5mo agoToilet maker Toto is capitalizing on an unexpected surge in demand from chip gear makers seeking its expertise in soil-resistant ceramics.
Note to Canadians: If you have the CDCP dental plan, there's a deadline that was poorly communicated through a letter you may not have received. You have to renew your coverage in the next 2 hours or there maybe a coverage gap. To renew, go to canada.ca/msca and do a whole bunch of onerous bullshit
When folks say they have 10x'd their productivity with AI, most of the time this is what is actually happening:
400 people are coming to Toronto Product Con today! I'm so stoked. I've got a product operations panel to talk about how the PDLC is shifting in 2026. Exciting! #productMgmt
looks like another consequence of carney’s cuts
Weather experts concerned about public safety as Environment Canada disbands radar research team | CBC News
From hail sizes to wind speeds, weather radars help Environment and Climate Change Canada track storms and issue public warnings. But the organization has recently disbanded its radar research team. M...
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Within a 3-6 mile radius. In a city filled with wealth. It is horrifying and infuriating.
Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn 2025, Wu administration directed $5M to community organizations to address life expectancy gap in three low-income neighborhoods. Residents in majority-Black Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan die 23, 20 and 18 years sooner than in wealthy neighborhoods like Back Bay. archive.ph/2025.07.29-0...
