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Okay 12-year-old saw me type “lol” just now and is positively disgusted.

“What are you, a MILLENNIAL?!!”

Honey, we wish were young enough to be millennials.

“What’s older than a millennial?!!”

You’re welcome.

What about abandoning self-regulation just for a weekend? As a treat.

I meant beyond vibe coding and prototyping. They're going deep into actual building to become more of a product engineer. I've seen so much more of this lately.

This is why I'm confused as to why so many PMs are overindexing on learning to AI code. There's so much more important work to be done.

Nominations have been extended to 15 March, and if you'd like help with a nomination or self-nomination, DM me for more info.

Without the synthesis process of critique, everyone who vibe coded a thing now has their own mental model, which means they are no longer actually a team.

This kills the project.

When you treat low fidelity artifacts (regardless of the amount of detail) as disposable sketches, this doesn't happen.

Noting for clarity that a lot of people working in software, including software engineers and designers, have a bad understanding of the software design process.

I'm hiring for a Canada-based VP Product for an early growth stage company.
- Experience scaling B2B Enterprise direct sales product companies from the $30M range.
- Full remote Canada. Amazing people & culture.
- You get to work with me!

If you love product, and this is you, send me a DM.

Tuesday Mar 10 - ProductTO. In-person product management conversations in Toronto.

Topics & presenters here: productto.org/next/

This^ is what a panel of speakers in tech should look like.

Sign up: members.tpma.ca/event-6593416

#Toronto #ProductSky

I'm hiring for a Canada-based VP Product for an early growth stage company.
- Experience scaling B2B Enterprise direct sales product companies from the $30M range.
- Full remote Canada. Amazing people & culture.
- You get to work with me!

If you love product, and this is you, send me a DM.

I did a talk at our ProductTank where I talked about the rise of “punk products”—products empowered by the fact pretty much anyone can build anything now, but that are the antithesis of the homogenised “average of everything” mainstream. Went down pretty well.

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Tuesday Mar 10 - ProductTO. In-person product management conversations in Toronto.

Topics & presenters here: productto.org/next/

This^ is what a panel of speakers in tech should look like.

Sign up: members.tpma.ca/event-6593416

#Toronto #ProductSky

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Katy Perry Candy Darling Mary Magdalene - Catastrophic

Hey so on the offchance literally any of you are in Houston. My friend's messy chaotic rock opera about coming out of the closet as trans in a messy chaotic way is entering its last week

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PWYC

Showings Thursday, Friday and 2x Saturday (1 not on website yet)

My highschool physics teacher never explained anything. I'd ask for clarification and he'd say to read the textbook. I did. Twice.

"It's easy. You just do the math."

I got the math. I want to understand the fundamental principles.

Magnets. How do they work?

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

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samesies

that Roman dodecahedron knitting-fingers-for-gloves tool I’d like to briefly aside into another way of making fabric without looms, which would be knitting, crocheting, or other ways of making knots with fiber. These ways use tools to help make repeated …

anyway they had both looms and access to fur. roman boxers had woven fabric gloves. the “knit” demonstrated was just awful, wasn’t complete, and also there’s not a single record of “knitting” anywhere and they made a lot of records

With the cuts to Canadian federal grants this year, a lot of nonprofits are probably going to have to dissolve for money reasons. That's so much community capacity destroyed for "efficiency".

There's so much organizational infrastructure that's built up to facilitate the purpose of an organization. So when bad things happen, the people who care work really hard to hold things together.

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI Acknowledging that AI systems are advancing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts, says Eryk Salvaggio.

That bot that deleted emails of a Facebook “AI alignment specialist” was a vibe-coded piece of viral slopware. LLMs are being steered into coding because failures are presumed to be easier to spot. But sycophancy, “hallucinations” and projection of mind happen with code, even when it “works.” ⬇️

The board wanted "AI", and what they meant were LLMs, not our actual in-house ML models. Simplest thing to implement, then we'll go back to the things that are important.

Stream of Teams, Episode 4 | Transforming Telecom Teams: Barbara Arnst on Telenet and Team Topologies — Team Topologies - Organizing for fast flow of value Join Matthew Skelton, co-author of  Team Topologies , in this biweekly live stream series as he delves into the evolution, challenges, and practical applications of Team Topologies principles in real-world settings. In each session, Matthew will explore articles, tools, workshops, and insi

I keep getting asked the same question: do Team Topologies ideas hold up inside large, complex organisations? In a recent Stream of Teams live session, I was joined by Barbara Arnst from Telenet to explore exactly that. Watch here 👀➡️

Congratulations! I think you should pursue what you want to do. It's easier to get into product later, but much harder to get back into development once you leave.

Dear Product Managers: I swear to you that AI is actually useful sometimes. If you have to throw 400 modal pop-ups at your users to get them to pay attention to your AI feature, you have simply built the wrong thing.

My friend was once the world's foremost expert on medieval French popes, so yeah that's a thing!

Toronto Product Conference Join 300+ product leaders at Toronto's premier product conference. Two tracks, 30+ speakers, unconference sessions. May 28, 2026 in downtown Toronto.

We're launching Toronto Product Con! May 28, 2026.

Join us for a day of product strategy, craft, and leadership speakers and conversations.

This is going to be so much fun!

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It's not you because it's on Substack.

Congratulations on 10 years!