I wrote something similar related to Product vocabulary. swkhan.medium.com/product-has-...

"Elon Musk cooked his brain online. Marc Andreessen and others seemingly struggled with being in virtual spaces where their ideas and status were challenged, and rewired their political beliefs as a form of cope." Good deep dive into tech broligarchy madness:

Take heart, Rebecca. Not in MAGA, but elsewhere, things are getting better. Ppl are more likely to be held accountable. We are getting there. And it's bc of ppl like you who have championed this cause. Thank you so much for all you do & for inspiring us all. You are a beacon of light for us all.

Very happy to donate to the Muslim Sisters of Éire who feed the unhoused week in week out. Only takes a minute msoe.ie/donate/

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

AI doesn’t kill leadership. It kills the illusion that task coordination was leadership. What remains is the harder part: judgment, boundaries, escalation and system design. New piece: www.demystifyingindustrialtech.com/p/from-team-...

One of the key discriminators to the sequence of events that occurs after splashdown is whether Orion lands right-side up (stable 1) or upside down (stable 2). Drawing is from this paper: https://airborne-sys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/aiaa-2011-2591-simulation_of_the_apollo_.pdf

Crew will install 2 post-landing Lithium Hydroxide units that will manage CO2 levels for up to 2 hours until the recovery team gets the hatch open. I’ll go over contingencies that could take longer in another thread. These are battery powered to preserve vehicle power for other things.

Starting tomorrow, we start reconfiguring the cabin for entry. Entry config will look a lot like launch with a few key differences. Goals: Make sure we’re within the needed center of gravity to hit the way at the right angle. Allow the crew to remain seated & suited during recovery.

Just saw this. It was most excellent.

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

No oil, no power, no surgical gloves: Inside Cuba’s medical collapse

What war in the Middle East means for the world's clean energy transition [via @theguardian.com]

Reading @dervlamctiernan.bsky.social What Happened To Nina? Cannot put it down. Looking forward to hearing her at #MWF in a few weeks. #booksky libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Car Radio: [80s station playing "Papa Don't Preach'] Me: do you realize the baby in this song is scheduling his or her fist colonoscopy about now wife:

Two misaligned incentives that combine to give us the state of modern tech: 1) Volume of deliverables is more visible than their quality 2) Putting out fires is more visible than preventing them

How Anthropic teams use Claude www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlX2...

🆓 Leading Without Authority: www.hustlebadger.com/what-do-prod... 🆓 Working with Founders: www.hustlebadger.com/what-do-prod... #product #productmanagement 6/6

The teams that CEOs trust with more autonomy are the ones that already behave as if they have it. 𝗙𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽: 🔒 Accountability Frameworks: www.hustlebadger.com/what-do-prod... 🔒 Managing Up: www.hustlebadger.com/what-do-prod... 5/6

• You don't complain about unclear strategy. You draft one and pressure test it. • You don't wait for permission. You state your intent and move. • When things go wrong, you ask: what part did I play in this? This is about being the person who makes things happen regardless of conditions. 4/6

By consistently demonstrating that you own the 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲. (Not the process / backlog / discovery ...) 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲: • The outcome is yours. Even when the problem isn't. • You don't blame stakeholders for bad briefs. You fix the brief. 3/6

Stop waiting to be empowered. Start taking ownership. I hear this constantly: • "We're not empowered." • "Leadership won't let us make decisions." • "The org isn't set up for us to succeed" And from CEOs, the mirror image: • "They don't take ownership" 1/6

• Define what “good” looks like for your product team • Use hiring and development to improve performance • Benchmark your team and identify opportunities for growth • Plan support and training to effectively upskill your team 2/3

Last week I asked @murphytrueman.com if she’d be open to consider moving her design systems articles off substack. Not only was she open to it, but she already relaunched her blog on ghost! Thank you for being open to feedback and actually caring! Go read her excellent articles!

7 free events for PMs in March. All practical, no fluff. Here's what's coming up: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗔/𝗕 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 Mar 2 · Ed Biden Most teams either test everything (and slow to a crawl) or test nothing (and guess). 1/10

My absolute must-listen!

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Sixty years ago, Jennie Lee's vision created The Open University 🎓 Welcoming all backgrounds, millions have started life-changing journeys. #OUfamily #TheOpenUniversity #OU60 💙

🆓 Template: www.hustlebadger.com/what-do-prod... 𝟱 - 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Great ideas emerge from: • Diverse perspectives in the room • Inspiring reference points • Collective insights • Sketching and visualising solutions 9/10

🧠 The mindset shifts that separate PMs from Product Leaders 🧩 The common traps new leaders fall into 🎯 How to prepare before you make the jump 🔄 The Product Leadership Wheel — her framework to find your footing 152 PMs are already in. See you there! #product #productmanagement 4/4

Most product development fails because teams spend months building features nobody want. 5 pillars I rely on to de-risk product decisions: 𝟭 - 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 • Building products is expensive • PMs exist to maximise return on that investment • Not every feature needs the same validation 1/10

Autonomy without alignment isn’t trust. It’s leadership abdicating responsibility "Product-led" works when product is strategic, not isolated. #product #productmanagement 9/9

For most companies, going "product-led" is a complete disaster, and they soon revert to a feature factory. It's a predictable pattern: • Product teams cheer. • Leadership steps back. • Accountability quietly disappears. • Then… it all blows up. WHAT COMPANIES THINK THEY ARE DOING 1/9

If this does not make you smile see a doctor

Three kinds of juggling... cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-407-th...

How user segmentation, rather than personas, helps you get design buy-in uxdesign.cc/how-user-seg...

Seconded. Oftentimes when I sit down to write after researching and interviewing, I don’t know what exactly I am going to write. The process of writing of discovery. It’s learning which parts go together and which don’t. It’s finding the underlying narrative. Relegating it to a machine won’t do that

Innovation is not magic; it’s technique medium.com/p/9b3c81a41877

On dedication and love for the invisible work. www.doc.cc/syntax/craft

Am I going to wake up at 5am to watch the final of a sport I don’t know anything about? Yes I am. #winterolympics #milanocortina

Admiring the Olympics #crosscountry women. They are #tough.

There are a ton of great presentation tips in this talk. Matt Abrahams focuses on both what you present and how you present it. Solid advice for new and seasoned presenters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsr4yrSAIAQ&ab_channel=StanfordGraduateSchoolofBusiness

This article on Minimum Viable Ethnography by Erica Hall is such a treasure. She explains how simple revelatory ethnographic research can be. I highly recommend you give her approach a try. Read Erika’s Article: https://medium.com/mule-design/minimum-viable-ethnography-a047e9358df0

fellas, is it a good sign when the Queen has to join the army reserves?

like this is absurd, get over yourselves

I was a White House staffer. When having a lunch with anyone who worked at law firm, corp, embassy, *newspaper* I had to document that I'd paid exactly my share of the bill. ("No free lunch" policy.) At some formal event dinners, had to calculate fair-market cost of my serving, and reimburse it