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A Mind Dismembered, by Frank Bures In search of the magical penis thieves

"Every culture has its own logic, its own beliefs, its own stresses. Once one buys into its assumptions, one becomes a prisoner to the logic. For some people, that means a march toward its more tragic conclusions."

Great essay about culture-bound syndromes, focusing mainly on sly phallus poachers.

Title screen from the remastered version of Oblivion game.

Among many improvements to the Oblivion's gameplay in the remastered version, I'm really digging the "make frequent pauses, mind your screen time" feature.

Every 1.5h, the game mindfully crashes, giving you some needed time to touch the grass.

I'm pretty sure the sound of turning Game Boy on will forever activate the dopamine receptors in my poor brain.

It was interesting to play Star Wars games before watching the movies, trying to figure out the lore of weird animals and funky robots 😳

This quote also lands nicely: "Everything you see on Kagi is there because it's useful, not because someone is behind it paying for clicks."

Super interesting. Hope the talks/slides are going to be available!

Oh, thanks for sharing. A bunch of new names to research and follow.

And, of course, +1 on the Knight 📈

Easy fix!

Visualisation of a Crazy 8 exercise based on input from Claude AI

If nothing more, it was a cool excuse to play around in Figma, trying to visualise the AI slop...

💼 Manager (and Decider), GPT-o1.

✍️ Copywriter, Claude (3.5 Haiku). The team’s moral compass.

🛠️ Senior engineer, Grok (2.0). A boundary-pushing builder.

🎤 Support specialist, Gemini (2.0 Flash). A patient problem-solver.

🧑‍🎨 UI designer, DeepSeek (V3). The enthusiastic sponge of the design team.

I facilitated a Design Sprint with AIs as the only participants. I want my intuition back. I facilitated a Design Sprint with AIs as the only participants. They had moments of insight (e.g., during Lightning Demos) but also tended to generalize, suggest blockchain, and crash.

Ever thought of using AI as a participant during a Design Sprint? Well, what about making the whole Sprint silicon-based?

For the lols, I've tried to run a Design Sprint just with AI participants, solving an imaginary problem for Vinted.

Please, meet the 🤖-team:

Autocorrect suggesting "kamikaze" as a fix for my unrecognised family name "Kamiński"

Close enough, I guess.

Elon Musk’s DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it Such security, much open.

Cyber Security Division of Homeland Security meets "Move fast and break things".

One step from "Macron vows you, yes you John, will pay more to see Mona Lisa".

I'm pretty sure I'll find copilot bundled next time I open my fridge.

Also - thank you for sharing the CV tips on the recent meetup 🙏

Resume is updated, hopefully it will be a part of a successful hiring funnel soon ;)

James Gunaca on LinkedIn: PM Job Market Stats (January 2025) | 71 comments Here's the latest Product Management job market report for January 2025. Which stat surprises you the most as we start the new year? The number of Product… | 71 comments on LinkedIn

Adding a link to James' report, so the information flows 🌊

www.linkedin.com/posts/jamesg...

Strong meme vibes!

ProductLab Community Conference ━ Sept 16-18, 2025 The event and comunity for Product Leaders and experienced Senior PMs to learn, get inspired, and connect.

Event in Berlin, organized by fantastic people from ProductLab 👏

Jason Knight, during a presentation about 2025 product management predictions, standing in front of a slide with "I'm not Doc Brown", indicating that he's not, sadly, coming from the future.

@oneknightinproduct.com started his presentation about 2025 product predictions with a big asterisk...

...then shared interesting insights on challenges to the PM role, including potential undermining of the role, how we can prove its value, and adapting to AI in the workplace.

Really cool stuff!

What about "strategy"? First it’s helpful to step back and put the question in a wider frame. We can distinguish two different kinds of work: Demand-side work is determining what potential customers are trying to do, wh...

But the book is mainly about how to remove the risk of shipping - how to prepare and execute bets, watching the deadline closely.

The book is super valuable, but I was missing the "Basecamp art and science of picking the right bets to shape". Found this additional context to fill that gap nicely!

Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters Shape Up will help you break free of “best practices” that aren’t really working, think deeper about the right problems, and start shipping meaningful projects your team can celebrate.

I've enjoyed reading "Shape Up" by Ryan Singer, and the six-week dev cycles that fuel Basecamp (and many other companies).

A lot of things to love here, clarity of the process, ownership given to the rest of the team, innovative (and resonating deeply) approach to visualising progress...

Care a lot and try hard Joyce opened the backpack and dumped a heap of cash onto the table. A powerful odor of fish filled the room. She and Ben looked up at me: wide-eyed, fresh off the plane, first time in Senegal. “Don’t ...

Damn, that's some great storytelling and core values insights at Wave, from Zach Abugov:

"Joyce opened the backpack and dumped a heap of cash onto the table. A powerful odor of fish filled the room. (...) 'Don’t worry,' Ben deadpanned. 'This is a totally legitimate company.'"

Quote from the sutudy: An ant’s simplicity prevents her from solving the puzzle on her own but facilitates effective cooperation with nest-mates. A single person is cognitively sophisticated and solves the problem efficiently but this leads to interpersonal variation that stands in the way of efficient group performance.

And from the original study:
(www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...)

Text from a study summary: The groups of ants were much better at solving the puzzle than individual ants, exhibiting what the researchers described as “emergent” collective memory—an intelligence greater than the sum of its parts. The groups of humans, on the other hand, often didn’t do better when working together, especially if they weren’t allowed to talk. In fact, multiple people sometimes performed worse than individuals—and worse than the ants. The researchers posit that, in the absence of the ability to discuss and debate, individuals attempt to reach a consensus quickly rather than fully assessing the problem. This “groupthink,” they suggest, leads people toward fruitless “greedy” efforts where they directly pull the T toward the gaps in the wall, rather than the less obvious, correct solution of pulling the object into the space between first. Whereas the ants “excel in cooperation,” they write, humans need to be able to talk through their reasoning to avoid simply going with what they think the crowd wants.

From a great summary from Christie Wilcox
(www.science.org/content/arti...)

A screenshot from a creativity course by Joe Cofone: Many describe creativity as "problem solving," when in fact it only accounts for one third of the general process. To get to a true point of satisfaction-to give birth to solutions that matter -you must first ask questions that matter. The Problem Method has three separate stages that happen in sequence: 1. Problem Seeking: First, a worthwhile problem must be uncovered. This can happen through necessity-there's a pain point in everyday life. Or curiosity— an inefficiency is discovered through inquiry. 2. Problem Sharpening: When a problem is identified, the source must be tracked down through patient investigation and experimentation. Once you diagnose the issue and outline a precise objective, then you are ready to begin solving. 3. Problem Solving: With a clear objective— a question or specific result - active work begins. Through a process of trial and error, continue to zero in on the resolution you're looking for. An idea doesn't just materialize; it's the effect of some cause. There are two ingredients: (1) A particular set of events, knowledges, and experiences —the cause that triggers (2) an idea-the effect. These are also commonly referred to as the problem and the solution, respectively.

I love that there are shared, core elements of a process echoing in what can be described as "creativity". From user-centric product management, to debugging the code, you need to uncover the problem (1), sharpen your understanding of it (2), then resolve in a valuable way (3).

YouTube video by IGN Dredge - Official Launch Trailer

New favourite cosy fishing simulator: Dredge.

"Rules aren’t infallible; they’re best guesses (...)"

Good stuff from Joey Cofone and his creativity course.

Awesome, just booked my spot for 2025 Product Predictions!

Yeah, you could simply type the number there, but the ‘+’ and ‘-’ signs were just too funny in this context to resist turning them into a GIF ;)