Being a product manager who can build is great, but only if you’re building stuff that makes money for your business.
Toby Rogers
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the punk pm | talking about product, tech creativity, and innovation | head of product @ https://hedgehoglab.com | retired music journo | blue peter badge winner | adhd https://tobyrogers.pm
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
Sharing because it's more relevant than usual now, and also because at least once a week I think "Journathan" and giggle to myself
“Writing is dead, documents are dead, reading is dead. Here’s a 100-page research paper my agent wrote.”
I realized earlier I'm treating my Fable usage like potions in video games "hmm, this problem seems hard. but what if something harder comes along and I've already used all my Fable?"
If I had to summarize myself in a single GIF it would probably be this one
Dazed and Confused: Slater's Hallway Dance
ALT: Dazed and Confused: Slater's Hallway Dance
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Scan@scanash.com · 3w agoIf I had to summarize myself in a single GIF it would probably be this one
Code is now ~free good software that solves a problem… that’s still much more expensive
This is extremely good advice in under two minutes. I could have used this when my freelancing fell through the floor during Covid
Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w agoSam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
A big company built on stealing stuff is allegedly stealing stuff from another big company. Who'd have thought it?
Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets
The iPhone maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.
wired.com
The year is 2040. Claude Dragon 34 has just been released. Claude Fable 5 access is still being extended weekly
Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.
fable being on limited time special is going to be like the furniture store "going out of business, everything must go", isn't it?
Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI
This kind of failure is inevitable if you run coding agents in yolo mode without a sandbox. Better models won't fix it anytime soon (if ever).
You can’t just expect your agents to code their way to a good idea
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
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When the new bottleneck in software development is deciding what to build, we need more product people—not less.
Claude Code turned every engineer into three. Now companies need more product thinkers
AI compressed the build. Fundamentals matter more, not less, and the product funnel is now where engineers earn their keep.
venturebeat.com
What have Black Sabbath, Johnny Marr, Jackson Pollock and Samuel Beckett got to do with product management? Quite a lot, as it turns out.
The Punk PM #57
Build Your Own Cage
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Don’t let AI fool you into confusing sounding confident with being competent.
Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Claude plugins in a GitHub repo is absolutely the way to manage instructions for your robots.
