"[The prototype] doesn’t explain why the opportunity matters, what trade-offs were made, how success will be measured or why one investment was chosen over another." The fundamentals still matter. medium.com/design-bootc...

When Product Management forgot its job

How we confused access to tools with expertise, and why the most important work in product is quietly being left behind.

medium.com

"Any coherent question about [AI] constitutes an inadvertent attack on the chain of command responsible for the work because there are no good answers to anything." How AI has turned organizations into ant mills and how to survive it. hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

hermit-tech.com

Cineplex's single-page application (SPA) setup makes it unnecessarily difficult to compare available seating for a film across multiple days in separate tabs. This is admittedly the firstest of first-world problems, but damn. Don't build SPAs like this. #UX #webdev

Midway through 2025, LLMs became my go-to method for understanding a domain space. And it wasn't too long before they became part of my domain-driven design and information architecture toolkit. curioussquid.substack.com/p/claude-is-...

Claude is an information architecture laboratory (Spilling Ink #15)

Claude is not a thought partner. It is a laboratory where I conduct experiments on information architecture models.

curioussquid.substack.com

"[…] without UBI, people like this are exceedingly rare. Einsteins are rare. Khns and Kleks are rare. With UBI, they will be less rare. That is not a hope. That is a statistical near-certainty." www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâché…

scottsantens.com

Hollywood buys the script, not the storyboard. The narrative, world-building, and intent are what get shopped around. As a product guy seemingly surrounded by designers who over-index on visual, interaction, and motion design, I think about this a lot. #productdesign

The absolute lengths we'll go to to avoid admitting something we’ve known for 40 years: the open office layout was a productivity mistake.

We've all experienced this prioritization framework. 😅 #productmanagement

"[…] AI readiness is not primarily a technology capability. It is a leadership discipline: the capacity to decide what should move faster, what should slow down, and who has the authority to know the difference." www.forbes.com/sites/jasonw...

Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company

Vibe coding is collapsing the distance between idea and deployment. But the real risk is whether your company has the judgment system to govern what AI can now build.

forbes.com

I can barely keep up with helping my mother navigate her multitude of treatments and this really resonates. It’s one thing to feel taken care of by the doctor. It’s another thing to feel taken care of by the healthcare system. www.blog.brittanijamesmd.com/p/why-does-g...

Why Does Getting Medical Care Feel Like Work?

The hidden labor of being a patient in modern healthcare

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“He seemed to use it more as a digital priest whose primary purpose was to confirm that he was right and everyone else was mistaken.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.

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As a parent, I have limited time to sit down and watch/read something. But I do have more time to passively listen to something infotaining. That’s why I enjoy podcasts so much and also why I built Otzio.app.

Otzio — Your reading list, in your podcast app

Save articles during the week, hit play on your commute. They play back-to-back in your podcast app. No picking, no switching apps.

otzio.app

"Individual labels do nothing for sense-making if the system as a whole defies understanding." productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/start-desi...

Start designing in content, not in code.

Putting the cart before the horse is not giving you real velocity wins.

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"A picture is worth a thousand words" is the excuse designers get when the written requirements are an unstructured brain dump. When people write like this, they're passing the responsibility of critical thinking to the reader. Writing is a superpower that doesn't get enough credit.

Otzio.app now reads articles in a variety of voices and accents. Also, a cool easter egg for Montrealers: articles begin and end with a soundbite reminiscent of our iconic subway chime. #buildinpublic

Otzio — Your reading list, in your podcast app

Save articles during the week, hit play on your commute. They play back-to-back in your podcast app. No picking, no switching apps.

otzio.app

Mediocrity trickles down and high-performers won't put up with it. medium.com/@claus.nissl...

High Achievers and Mediocre Systems: Why the Best People Leave and the Worst Ones Stay.

Organizations frequently struggle with an invisible conflict: the tension between high-performing individuals and systems that tolerate low…

medium.com

"When a tool avoids having an opinion, it pushes that responsibility onto the organization. Decisions fragment. Interpretation becomes local. Alignment erodes." #productmanagement medium.com/analysts-cor...

What Project Management Tools Get Wrong — And Teams Feel Every Day

How project tools quietly became obstacles to real delivery

medium.com

"Features that had generated excitement in the demo becoming furniture in the product […] That’s not product-market fit. That’s product-market tolerance." wildfirelabs.substack.com/p/shipped-is...

Shipped Isn’t Solved

In the AI-acceleration era, engineering isn’t the constraint — understanding and adoption are.

wildfirelabs.substack.com

Start all your writing with “Hey, dipshit!” so people know it wasn’t written by AI. Follow me for more writing tips.

I've listened to hundreds of articles and posts in less than 60 days thanks to Otzio.app. And dogfooding your own product means it keeps improving. Now its gotten a little better at extracting X (Twitter) and Medium articles. #buildinpublic

Otzio — Your reading list, delivered as a podcast

Save articles during the week, hit play on your commute. They play back-to-back in your podcast app. No picking, no switching apps.

otzio.app

Experienced contributors ask boring questions for clarity, uncovering blind spots, and mitigating risk. Instead of moving fast and breaking things, try not breaking things so you can move fast. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ma...

LinkedIn Pulse

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The Boring Internet kinda sums up Otzio.app's origin story. RSS is boring, federated, and indestructible. No platform to justify its own existence, just a protocol that already works. www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-i...

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

terrygodier.com

Nobody’s stopping you from using harissa instead of tomato paste.

The Ferrari Luce reveals an interesting lesson in problem framing: the car you want to drive and the car you want to be seen driving are two entirely separate jobs to be done.

Sure, you can use AI to implement any ad-hoc feature a customer asks for. Hell, you might even think a customer fart is at least a Jira ticket. But do you have the discipline to remove the feature when that customer leaves?

AI makes it dangerously easy to reward yourself with progress while avoiding contact with reality. medium.com/@dankhan/whe...

When the Product You Built Isn’t the Product People Need

Reflections on startup feedback, founder psychology, and learning what customers are actually asking for.

medium.com

People have asked me why otzio.app is a PWA instead of a mobile app. The answer is I’m prioritizing iteration speed over time-consuming review processes of two separate app stores that also want a 15%-30% cut. The hurdles towards validation are sometimes lower than you think. #buildinpublic

Otzio — Your reading list, delivered as a podcast

Save articles during the week, hit play on your commute. They play back-to-back in your podcast app. No picking, no switching apps.

otzio.app

Management when I suggest exposing some KPIs to our customers as a forcing function to drive mutual outcomes.

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Gas hitting $3.50/L will be the exact moment my childhood nostalgia meets my adult financial ruin. I ain’t giving you no tree fiddy, OPEC!

About a week ago I quietly started alpha testing Otzio, my articles-to-podcast app. Early feedback shaped a lot: easier setup, paywall workarounds, and article thumbnails + transcripts in modern podcast apps. Today it gets its own home: otzio.app Give it a try. #buildinpublic #reading #podcasts

Otzio — Your reading list, delivered as a podcast

Save any article, get a narrated episode in your podcast app. No new player to open — it just shows up where you already listen.

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