Mani Pande
@manipande.bsky.social
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UXR, Technology, Politics Views are my own
This is infuriating 23andme charging me for subscription almost 6 months after I canceled and asked them to delete my data
10 days ago
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One of the cringiest things on LinkedIn right now: people commenting under every AI clickbait post to get a prompt. Youâre not becoming an expert. Youâre just speedrunning the âhow to look cluelessâ challenge. đŹ
11 days ago
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Ending the day at Acadia national park in Maine with beautiful sunset from Cadillac summit
#usa
#beauty
#sunset
about 1 month ago
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Fresh air hits different when itâs not laced with toxicity, great hike at Acadia National Park in Maine
about 1 month ago
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Is there worst
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#Toast
I have always had bad experiences when I have had to use it on the web to order food
about 1 month ago
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Never coming back to Lozano car wash in Sunnyvale price is high and service is poor
about 2 months ago
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Price increases are insane these days, full car wash in Bay Area $44
about 2 months ago
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I have been experimenting with Gen AI tools for over a year and recently created a scheduling agent to add Giants and Warrior games to my calendar so I can plan around traffic disruptions read about it here
medium.com/manipande/my...
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My Foray into Creating an Agent for Scheduling
Recently, we moved to the Rincon Hill neighborhood in San Francisco, and the neighborhood is close to SF Giantsâ Oracle Park and the ChaseâŠ
https://medium.com/manipande/my-foray-into-creating-an-agent-for-scheduling-4c7215f50004
about 2 months ago
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A beautiful sunny day in San Francisco, blessed to be enjoying myself these days, untethered from negative energy
about 2 months ago
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In SF you can really feel the inflation & price gouging, the local coffee shop jacked up the price for a latte to almost $9 how can a business justify it, dog food was almost two times of what I can buy on Amazon
3 months ago
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I will miss the Late Night show with Stephen Colbert have been a regular watcher for years
3 months ago
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Linkedin believes I have multi-faceted skills I can be an auto salesperson, pool manager or an oncologist, the algo like everything else on Linkedin is screwed
3 months ago
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Great read that ranks AI companies from evil to less evil, and just like the writer I use GenAI everyday - it's good to know the cost of using these tools to society, humanity and environment
medium.com/@cwodtke/i-l...
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I Love Generative AI and Hate the Companies Building It
A Ranking from Most to Least Evil
https://medium.com/@cwodtke/i-love-generative-ai-and-hate-the-companies-building-it-3fb120e512ac
3 months ago
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Feel bad for all employees of Windsurf who were not invited to join Google and whose equity disappeared in a day
3 months ago
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There are so many AI coding agents out there, a new one springing up everyday, 50% of them will not survive, who will be next
pets.com
3 months ago
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Interesting results, AI coding tools slow developers down (-19%) versus new & common wisdom within tech industry that these tools turbocharge coding (+20%)
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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It seems businesses are extracting max profits from each customer Toyota dealership charged me 3 percent on 2800 service for credit card charges, seeing more and more businesses transfer costs to customers
4 months ago
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Is Comcast officially the worst company in the world, poor customer support and experience
4 months ago
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I vibe coded my personal website after a solid decade of procrastination using @lovable.dev please check it out
www.manipande.com
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UX Research Portfolio
Professional UX Research Portfolio showcasing user-centered design projects and research insights.
https://www.manipande.com/
4 months ago
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Mani Pande
New York Magazine
4 months ago
Brands like Tory Burch and J.Crew have utilized mirror embroidery, which has had roots in Indian fashion for centuries.
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Thanks to Indian Fashion, Tiny Mirrors on Clothes Are Everywhere
Brands like Tory Burch and J.Crew have utilized mirror embroidery, which has had roots in Indian fashion for centuries.
https://www.thecut.com/article/thanks-to-indian-fashion-tiny-mirrors-are-trending.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=bluesky
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Chase Bank site has so many usability issues, I can write a thesis on it, Chase design team work on improving the UX and usability of your site, the new site is broken at so many levels
5 months ago
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It's clear that X (formerly known as Twitter) got rid of their design team, worst onboarding flow that I have seen in a while, absolutely incomprehensible
5 months ago
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My god two factor authentication not working for JP Morgan Chase Bank across 3 browsers - can't log into my account on Firefox, Safari or Chrome, both SMS or phone are not working
5 months ago
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Punctuality is a virtue would have liked keynotes at
#config
start and end on time
5 months ago
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PMs work with designers on readability of your slides especially if you are presenting at a design conference
5 months ago
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Giving in and flexing like so many else on my LinkedIn feed and announce I am at config
5 months ago
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Wrote a blog post on how UXR should work with DS to evaluate Gen AI chatbots and common methods of doing so
medium.com/manipande/ne...
#UXR
#genai
#datascience
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New UXR Methodologies to Incorporate for Gen AI research
The race to incorporate Gen AI tools like assistants and agents is accelerating. Every tech company is an AI company today. This is trueâŠ
https://medium.com/manipande/new-uxr-methodologies-to-incorporate-for-gen-ai-research-035b168a0b71
6 months ago
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Must read that looks at sociological reasons on why boys and men are falling behind in the US
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/05/harv...
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Why Men Are Falling Behind in Education, Employment, and Health | Harvard Magazine
What to do as men and boys fall behind
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/05/harvard-men-gender-gap-education-employment
6 months ago
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Used ChatGPT to see if it can tell me what year is my vintage Dior dress from, it hallucinated so much and gave me inaccurate answer, Gen AI is still brittle and breaks if you push hard
6 months ago
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Instagram seems to be dying the same slow death as Facebook, no one posts any longer and all you see are some random videos that algorithm selects based on god knows what, I removed the app on my phone several years back, access it sometimes on computer
6 months ago
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Upgraded my iPhone today before the prices increase, should I be buying a new car too
6 months ago
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Watched Aziz Ansari's standup in San Francisco yesterday, he is still got it, looking forward to his movie with the legend Keanu in Oct, he posed in the beginning so folks could take photos, nice of him
6 months ago
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How to Lead an Effective Research team some insights from my experience on leading teams for the last decade
medium.com/manipande/ho...
#UXR
#research
#design
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How to Lead an Effective Research Team: Practical Advice for UX Leaders
To be an effective research leader there are several qualities and principles that a researcher has to bring to their teams and theâŠ
https://medium.com/manipande/how-to-lead-an-effective-research-team-practical-advice-for-ux-leaders-0124f49f4989
6 months ago
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Drove past the local high schools and was surprised to see 50% of high schoolers using electric bikes versus regular bikes, kids need some exercise, obesity is an epidemic in this country
6 months ago
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Mani Pande
WIRED
7 months ago
The research-focused agent shows how a new generation of more capable AI models could automate some office tasks.
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OpenAIâs Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work
The research-focused agent shows how a new generation of more capable AI models could automate some office tasks.
https://wrd.cm/3FA9Hmc
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Emily Mullin
8 months ago
DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with
@zoeschiffer.bsky.social
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www.wired.com/story/doge-e...
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Elon Muskâs $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies
The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk-spending-cuts-federal-workers/
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LOLGOP âđâ
8 months ago
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Emails from Democrats asking me for money are getting more aggressive and desperate
8 months ago
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This Californian is struggling in the cold on a sunny day in Amsterdam, picked up a cold too which did not help
8 months ago
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Chat GPT is hallucinating on me
8 months ago
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Amsterdam is a beautiful city with great public transportation, taxis and Uber one pet peeve many taxis smell of smoke
8 months ago
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Eric Lipton NYT
8 months ago
ProPublica tracker of the staffers who are part of Musk DOGE team. With biography and SpaceX/Musk corporate work history for each. Photos too.
projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
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Elon Muskâs Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the worldâs richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/
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Overnight so many experts on DeepSeek on Linkedin, Deepseek had released the research paper sharing how they were able to bring cost down for training their LLL model last month where were all these experts then
9 months ago
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Hopefully Californians who voted for Trump feel good about their vote
www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/...
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Trump wants California to institute restrictive voter law before receiving fire aid
The president suggested California shouldn't receive fire aid unless it institutes enhanced voter identification measures.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-wants-california-institute-restrictive-voter-id-law-receiving-wi-rcna189458
9 months ago
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Krugman wonks out Yes in praise of my home state
paulkrugman.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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Krugman wonks out | Paul Krugman | Substack
Notes on economics and more. Click to read Krugman wonks out, by Paul Krugman, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web
9 months ago
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London in winter is cold, but great to see the city without the swarms of tourists
#London
#travel
9 months ago
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Melissa Sanchez
10 months ago
A damning account of how insurers, like United, rely on the same doctors to deny mental health care, even as judges repeatedly question their calls: âpuzzling,â âdisingenuousâ, âdishonest, âbaselessâ By the very best
@deldeib.bsky.social
@mayatmiller.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/ment...
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Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts
In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in âselective readingsâ of medical evidence and âshut their eyesâ to medical opinions opposin...
https://www.propublica.org/article/mental-health-insurance-denials-unitedhealthcare-cigna-doctors
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Must read about the health insurance denial industrial complex when will there be change
www.propublica.org/article/evic...
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Inside the Company Helping Americaâs Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations
10 months ago
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UX for toast app for consumers is so poor, clearly the design team is sleeping at the wheel
#toast
#giftcard
10 months ago
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This is a really sad story, please read it, there should be some apology or reparations by the government
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures
The Postâs year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/native-american-deaths-burial-sites-boarding-schools/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001
10 months ago
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