Dave Feldman
@schvenk.bsky.social
Multidisciplinary product leader in Berlin. Founded Miter & Emu. Alum of Heap, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Harvard. I try not to take myself too seriously, and sometimes succeed.
"Controlling models may not be the right answer. The two lenses of belief and evidence lead us down different paths...while responsible deployment will help prevent incidents, alignment may not prevent humans from wreaking havoc with even unintelligent AI." blog.dfeldman.co/navigating-t...
Navigating the AI Insanity
AI is exhausting—or at least the discourse around it is exhausting. It seems to get hypier and weirder by the week. I wish I could ignore…
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Just published: medium.com/@dfeldman/na... The discourse around AI is so weird and exhausting—and there's a reason for that. Understanding it can help us regain our sanity and be more constructive with our AI use.
Navigating the AI Insanity
AI is exhausting—or at least the discourse around it is exhausting. It seems to get hypier and weirder by the week. I wish I could ignore…
medium.com
Hey Berliners: things have felt especially dark to me in our industry lately. It's good to remember what hasn't changed: building high-quality products & healthy teams. If that resonates, join us next week for another PB&J workshop. Get advice, give advice, meet like-minded folks. luma.com/8i8a1q3u
Product Builders & Joy IV: A New Sandwich · Luma
Join like-minded tech people in some reciprocal mentorship, with sandwiches. Ever feel like all the fun has gone out of tech? Many of us got into this business…
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We’re back! The next Product Builders & Joy workshop will be Tuesday, 22 September here in Berlin. Grab your spot, bring your work challenges, get advice, help others. See you there! luma.com/8i8a1q3u
Product Builders & Joy IV: A New Sandwich · Luma
Join like-minded tech people in some reciprocal mentorship, with sandwiches. Ever feel like all the fun has gone out of tech? Many of us got into this business…
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Do you use Hocuspocus, Tiptap's open-source real-time collaboration engine? If so, we'd love to hear from you: f you can spare five minutes, fill out this survey: ggl.link/hp-survey In exchange you'll receive my gratitude. Oh, and also a chance to win a $50 gift card. (More info: hocuspocus.dev)
Survey: Your Hocuspocus Experience
We're Tiptap, developer of Hocuspocus. As we think about where to take Hocuspocus next, we'd like to learn more about you so our decisions are grounded in the people who use the product. It should onl...
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@schvenk.bsky.social is hosting a PM, Founder & Designer meetup in Berlin beginning of August. If you are in Berlin and you think building products is interesting you could maybe take a peek! luma.com/8sokwvmy
Beer Nuts by PB&J: August Edition · Luma
A happy hour for tech people who care, hosted by PB&J. With peanuts, naturally. PB&J is a support community for technologists who care about great products and…
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We launched @tiptap.dev 's new Server AI Toolkit today - which allows our users to add AI agents to your editor that act like normal users and can work on documents just like normal users would. See more here: tiptap.dev/blog/release...
AI Toolkit, Now in Beta — Plus 100 Free Licenses – Tiptap Release Notes
Build AI agents that understand and edit documents in place, with Tiptap’s AI Toolkit. Apply now for one of 100 free lifetime licenses.
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I think the tech of LLMs, generative "AI," etc is super fuckin' cool. I'm less fond of the hype, the oversell, the yoking of our economy to a small handful of hugely overvaulated companies and the utter contempt the CEOs of these companies clearly have for the vast majority of humans.
Chloe du Plessis@chloe-duplessis.bsky.social · 5mo agoto be fair I don't think you'd much like "AI" even if they hadn't stolen your work to train it for, you know, all the other listed reasons there
Seeking advice from designers who code with AI: What techniques do you have for producing AI-coded front-ends that look decent? I struggle with it. Whether I'm specifying a known style, providing a mock, or letting it do its own thing, it messes up on the basics...
Just published: In Design, Craft is Not Enough Liquid Glass exemplifies how the design world's focus on "craft" delegitimizes design as a strategic function, and results in worse product experiences. AI is making it worse...but doesn't have to. blog.dfeldman.co/in-design-cr...
In Design, Craft is not Enough
Apple’s Liquid Glass is beautiful. It’s a work of art. Its complex, multi-layered, refractive animations are a testament to Apple’s tight…
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Are you in Berlin? Do you like sandwiches? Are you free on Thursday? Do you work in tech but wish it focused more on building great products and teams, and less on hypergrowth? Do you like giving and receiving advice? Then join us for Product Builders & Joy II: The Return of PB&J. luma.com/x5tsm1xk
Product Builders & Joy II: The Return of PB&J · Luma
Join like-minded tech people (again!) in some reciprocal mentorship, with sandwiches. Ever feel like all the fun has gone out of tech? Many of us got into this…
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I've got this tongue-in-cheek concept, The Crapularity: a future wherein we revert to pre-industrial life because technology becomes more trouble than it's worth. It started as a joke, but these days I wonder...already I think twice before buying on Amazon because going to the store is less hassle.
‘Your Frustration Is the Product’
The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.
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Why, if Time Machine is supposed to prune older backups, and I regularly getting "out of space" errors from Time Machine that I can only seem to clear by erasing my backup and starting over?
Haha, that's great. I'd prefer an Oompa Loompa craze a bit more than the current AI one! 😂
Once a generation, a product changes the world. The iPhone. ChatGPT. Little sweaters for dogs. Introducing Oomplify. It's not one of those things. It's a Chrome extension that replaces “AI” and “artificial intelligence” in your LinkedIn with “Oompa-Loompas.” Take that, sweater dogs. oomplify.com
Oomplify - Chrome Web Store
Replaces AI terms on LinkedIn with Oompa-Loompas.
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I had a talk with @schvenk.bsky.social yesterday about the open web and federated / open systems like the Atmosphere or the Fediverse. I think the only backdraw really is that it's hard to do "business" on an open web. Even though I also believe you could still build valuable tools around it.
AI product-design principle #1: Keep the user in the driver’s seat. Which might seem strange: AI is about automating our lives; this pulls in the other direction. First of 6 posts where I explore the product-design principles crystallizing as we build Tiptap Flex (flex.tiptap.dev). dub.sh/pixN9lc
Principles of AI Product Design: Keep the User in the Driver’s Seat
New tech like AI demands that we revisit our product-design principles. The first of six we identified: Keep the use in the driver’s seat.
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Anybody else find Apple Photos is really crashy these days?
Writers don’t want AI that writes for them — they want a copilot that keeps their voice and helps with research, sentence-level edits, and ideation. With Tiptap Flex we're building an AI-native editor with powerful, flow-preserving tools to ideate, write, & distribute. medium.com/@dfeldman/ti...
Tiptap Flex: What do Writers Need from AI?
AI can be a copilot for writers…IF we move beyond chatbots, and recognize AI’s strengths AND weaknesses. We’re doing that with Tiptap Flex.
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Jeremy Toeman had me on his Founder@50 podcast! We discuss: 🔌 The power of side projects 🍩 How my move to Berlin shaped my growth 🔬 How product curiosity fuels resilience Jeremy calls it “an engaging conversation filled with wisdom and humor." I'll take it. founderat50.substack.com/p/dave-feldm...
Dave Feldman: from Web 1.0 web work to AI-era entrepreneurship
Jeremy Toeman sits down with Dave Feldman to trace a career that spans the dawn of the commercial internet to today’s AI-fueled creative experiments.
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Just published. Apple's missteps around around Apple Intelligence may seem like a strategic blunder, but could actually reflect a fundamental AI challenge: the AI 80/20. blog.dfeldman.co/apple-intell...
Apple Intelligence — Beware the AI 80/20
Apple’s missteps around around Apple Intelligence may seem like a strategic blunder, but could actually reflect a fundamental AI challenge.
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Are you a PM, designer, founder, or product leader? Want some free coaching? Fill this out: tally.so/r/wbEepZ Details: after half a career in leadership I'm considering becoming a “Product Leadership Coach,”—and want to validate via a few free coaching sessions. Interested? I hope to hear from you!
Coaching Experiment - Screener
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Just published: dfeldman.medium.com/how-intellig... Working hands-on with AI, it’s easy to feel a sense of cognitive dissonance: the public narrative seems weird. if you’re not up to your elbows in AI on a daily basis, I can help you understand how it’s powerful and limited, via the story of Liam.
How intelligent is AI? The Story of Liam
Working hands-on with AI, it’s easy to feel a sense of cognitive dissonance. As one navigates its enormous strengths and sizable…
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TL;DR Fill out a five-minute survey about your to-do list; help me build you a better productivity app; learn more about how people perceive task-management. tally.so/r/wvg0bD
Research Survey: To-Do Lists
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
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Some news: I’m leaving Outgoing at the end of the month. What’s next? I’m still figuring that out, exploring multiple paths: product-leadership roles, consulting & coaching, new product ideas. You’ll see more about some of these in the coming days & weeks. And of course, I welcome your thoughts.
Just published: Practical AI for Product People Everyone’s talking about AI these days—but there’s little discussion of how we build AI into our products. How can AI enhance your app experience? What new capabilities can you deliver? And what can’t you do? dfeldman.medium.com/practical-ai...
Practical AI for Product People
Everyone’s talking about AI these days—but there’s little discussion of how we build AI into our products. How can AI enhance your app?
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