I understand that sometimes, as a product evolves, features need to be retired. However, I can't imagine that #Microsoft 's #Outlook team talked with users before making major changes to saved search and mail merge features. #productmanagemet #productfail

Mamdani and his media team are genius. Democrats need to learn from his team, the way they should have learned from Obama instead of basically catching and killing the innovative spirit. www.instagram.com/reel/DP3twRS...

Today in unintended consequences of US trade policy: Brazilian deforestation… www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/c...

So if these boats are carrying drugs that could kill tens of thousands of people, should this drugs be dumped in the ocean?

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

America is spending $20B of your tax dollars to ensure Argentina continues to have free healthcare while the US government is shutdown because it can’t afford to give you a discount on healthcare premiums? Make it make sense.

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Let's move our Thanksgiving. I love this idea: www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

"There are a few simple steps the craft beer industry can take to immediately address its downturn. For starters, it must abandon the I.P.A. arms race. Craft beer’s obsession with hops has gone too far." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Another reason we need new leadership. It is one thing to fail to achieve your goal, and another to misrepresent your failure as a success. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Amidst everything else happening in our country, can we consider the futility of leaf blowers and recognize that leaf litter is good for your yard? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/r...

Trump: “we don’t want to shut the government down, it’s the Democrats” Also Trump: “well if the government is shut down, we’re going to fire government employees and dismantle ‘democrat agencies’.”

www.geekwire.com/2025/pacific... How did those counties vote?

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Because this won’t lead to a college admissions arms race, bias and rampant ai use either… www.marketplace.org/shows/shows/...

This will surely lower healthcare costs and housing costs. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

After today's fridge repair bill, on top of the $180 in parts I purchased to attempt earlier repair (not to mention my time) I'm going to impart some dad wisdom: Buy the extended warranty. Extend the extended warranty. Keep rolling that forward as long as you can.

Wildfire smoke could soon kill 71,000 Americans every year. The haze may already kill 40,000 people in the U.S. each year — the same number who die in traffic crashes. Climate change will only make matters worse. grist.org/health/wildf... #Wildfire #Smoke #Climate #Health #Wellness #Disaster

I was today years old when I learned you can turn off the iPhone "Always On Display" www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/... TL;DR In the Settings application, go to Display & Brightness, scroll down to the bottom and go into Always On Display. To turn off AOD, toggle off Always On Display.

I think in 5 years, we will look back on the “ai friends” phase of social networking that is about to hit us like we do on the Tamagatchi key chain pets.

Why do so many companies want to collect our PII? really, you want the responsibility of keeping that safe? You need my birthday so I can buy a ticket, or sign up for Disney+? We need consequential fines for EVERY PIECE of data exposed in breaches. Regardless of whether harm can be documented.

wow, just 20% of registered voters in seattle voted in the primary for mayor according to the current counts. It could not be any easier to cast your ballot in Seattle. fill in some bubbles. put it in envelope. drop it in any mailbox or ballot dropbox. Done. but 400k voters couldn't be bothered.

17 pieces of primary campaign mail (at least). Zero knocks on the front door. We are super prime voters living at the same address for over a decade. Does anyone in Seattle know how to run a field campaign?

my first youtube short with some advice on increasing your chances of landing an interview and landing a job by doubling your outreach, not your applications: youtube.com/shorts/oo7Yq...

Latest episode of my podcast is out. I talk with Career Coach Lorraine Rise about networking, values based career search, and some of the ways job seekers can leverage GenerativeAI without losing what makes them them. www.linkedin.com/posts/gregor...

Demilitarize seafair www.seaclimateaction.info

It’s great that my GE Cafe Series fridge can display a photo on the tiny screen on the door. What would be better is if it could warn me that the fridge temp has risen above 40 degrees. Who’s the product manager for this $3000 appliance? It has one job, keep my food at a safe temperature!

As we've unfortunately seen this week, natural disasters can hit at any time, in any place, and upend your life. @Grist has put together a comprehensive toolkit for navigating the recovery process, from how disaster relief works to finding housing and food. grist.org/disaster101

UX/UI Pet peeve: address fields. A) why can't you predict/detect that I am in the USA. B) why is a drop down with 50 states easier than being able to type the state abbreviation?

D2C e-commerce use email like broadcast advertising. Do I really need a daily message from the company that sells me razor blades?

“We spent three generations telling everybody that if they didn’t go to college, they are a loser,” he said. “Now we are paying for it. We still need people to use their hands.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...

who is the genius at @equifax-us.bsky.social who thinks it is a good idea to send people a "mystery" offer than looks like phishing scam?

Are your vaccinations up to date? if not, might want to make an appointment sooner rather than later. Read David Wallace-Wells' newsletter today in the NYT, sorry, no link available.

Listening to @hcrichardson.bsky.social June 7 letter with my 11 year old… “Dad! Pearl Harbor was in December, not June!” Yeah, my 11 year old knows more about Pearl Harbor than the sec of Navy who just visited there.

This is an important lesson for Dems to learn now, and not make the same mistake again. www.fastcompany.com/91342814/the...

Andrew yang @andrewyang2024.bsky.social was right. www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a...

What is wrong with us?! We can't brush our own grills? We need a robot for that now too? File under "Things that Should Not Exist" a.co/d/1gZe2Ek

Perhaps #Seattle #Parks should run--err skate with this idea for downtown? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

Free idea for #Amazon #Kindle #ProductManagers: Easier way to organize your library into sections. Use book genres, author, or subject. #featurerequest

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

With all the “Joe Biden is old” news coverage, I’m reminded of the 50 year old clip from @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=BjRq...

Not the droid I’m looking for. www.disneystore.com/g1t4-m1n1-dr...

I really hope this whole thing is a big joke. People paying $25 for a slab of bone shaped glass? And it’s sold out? mindless-toys.com/products/met...

Anyone who says that Generative AI has no utility or value is doing it wrong.

Here's an idea for #google #notebooklm: create a secure "podcast feed" for each user. That way, I can subscribe to my deep dives. Let me decide if I want to publicly publish them.

How is this possible? You fail to put your car in park and set the brake. Someone dies. No charges? komonews.com/news/local/s...

Maybe @anthropic.com should be more concerned about the welfare of authors, artists and content creators whos' work its models are trained on than the welfare of those models and whether those models deserve moral status.