A Hippocratic Oath for tech… with teeth uxdesign.cc/a-hippocrati...

Optimizing for long-term value, such as conversions and user retention, yields more durable business outcomes and loyalty compared to solely focusing on short-term metrics like clicks, which can mislead. www.mindtheproduct.com/what-every-p...

Is Product Operations a system or a function? www.talkingroadmaps.com/episodes/is-...

System 0: Humanity’s Next Superpower by @paulisthrivving.xyz medium.com/thrivve-part...

Product leaders must consider three fundamental elements before incorporating AI into products: operational costs, staffing costs, and business risks, as executive pressure often overlooks these critical impacts. www.mindtheproduct.com/how-to-adopt...

Success in GTM for solo PMs requires strategic boundaries, knowing what tasks to own versus what to push back on, creating scrappy GTM documentation, and identifying essential collaborators (sales, marketing, customer success) early on. www.mindtheproduct.com/how-solo-pro...

What I Saw at the Movies www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... via @longreads.com

Second and Long: Why did James Whitehead—poet, fiction writer, and onetime college football player—fail to complete a successor to his celebrated first novel? theamericanscholar.org/second-and-l... via @longreads.com

The thing that wouldn’t die: why Gothic endures in visual culture www.itsnicethat.com/features/got...

8 Ways Burnout is Secretly Destroying Your Financial Future jboitnott.medium.com/8-ways-burno...

The emerging landscape requires designers to be highly self-directed, leveraging peer networks and AI-assisted projects, but this "audacity tax" disproportionately affects those without financial or social capital, creating uneven pathways into the field. www.itsnicethat.com/features/wel...

How AI writing tools fail to speak to writers uxdesign.cc/how-ai-writi...

Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the next evolution of SEO, requiring a shift in mindset from just ranking for blue links to being understood and referenced by AI systems, while still maintaining SEO fundamentals. www.growthunhinged.com/p/traffic-is...

Older Tech In The Browser Stack www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/11/olde...

When AI Gives the Wrong Answer: Optimizing Customer Experience www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F9A...

The Product Manager’s Paradox: Ownership Without Authority From @sjohnson717.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/pulse/produc...

The Kid Is All Right: In Defense of Picky Eating www.seriouseats.com/the-kid-is-a... via @kristastevens.bsky.social

The state of AI in 2025 www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mcki...

Figma is actively enhancing its accessibility with features like an enhanced contrast mode and improved keyboard navigation, distinguishing it from many other design tools. uxdesign.cc/is-figma-in-...

Intro to Large Language Models www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkB...

Effective communication with executives requires mastering storytelling, structuring updates with a "Context → Conflict → Resolution → Evidence" arc to influence decisions both emotionally and logically. www.mindtheproduct.com/winning-the-...

Trust in traditional search engines, built over years of reliable and efficient interactions, creates a high expectation for conversational AI; when not met, users often feel responsible for the AI's failures, underscoring the need for reliable and effortless design. uxdesign.cc/the-novelty-...

Agentic AI Trends for 2026 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Designing "agentic loops" is a crucial new skill for effectively utilizing coding agents (like Anthropic's Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex CLI), which operate by running tools in a loop to achieve a goal, often through brute-force iteration. simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/...

America's AI Talent Crunch www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcCJ...

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OpenAI is losing significant amounts of money, having spent 150% of its H1 2025 revenue on research and development, which resulted in "underwhelming" products like GPT-5 and the costly-to-operate Sora 2. www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai

While both libraries and publishers anticipate AI will enhance content visibility, their primary concerns differ: libraries worry about AI's accuracy and its effect on students' critical thinking, whereas publishers are concerned about IP rights. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/30/g...

Why we need to design products for machines w/ @randysilver.outofowls.com www.mindtheproduct.com/why-we-need-...

The Andy Breen Hypothesis: Testing for Value Risk is the Most Critical Yet Overlooked Piece of Product Success podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Harry Beck revolutionized the London Tube map by abstracting geographical reality into a user-centric diagram, prioritizing the order of stops and interchange points over physical distances, which fundamentally changed how people navigated the city's transport network. medium.com/design-bootc...

Top AI Books to Read in 2025 www.ai-supremacy.com/p/top-ai-boo...

Successful implementation of national digital voting, exemplified by Estonia, relies heavily on pre-existing, robust digital identity infrastructure and comprehensive security measures, including end-to-end verification and public audits. uxdesign.cc/can-technolo...

An Optimistic Quest in Apocalyptic Times bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/... via @cherilucasrowlands.com

Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @seywarddarby.bsky.social

Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media? harpers.org/archive/2025... via @longreads.com

Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures www.noemamag.com/editing-natu... via @kristastevens.bsky.social

An ecosystem of AI-powered tools is emerging across the entire software development lifecycle, incl. advanced planning tools, various code generation and editing methods (tab completion, chat-based, background agents), AI app builders, and AI-integrated version control. a16z.com/the-trillion...

What Made Blogging Different? talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-... via @cherilucasrowlands.com

All software is inherently ephemeral and will eventually cease to exist, making "designing for ephemerality" a core challenge for creators. brajeshwar.com/2025/designi...

Trump 👏 is 👏 in 👏 the 👏 files. Email from Epstein to Maxwell released by the Estate and House Oversight today.

Organizations are currently failing to effectively integrate AI tools by expecting individuals to figure them out independently, leading to chaos, significant security risks, and collaboration problems. www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-...

I'm bored and will I ever find out why I was fired? softskills.audio/2025/10/06/e...

The success of AI agent implementation is heavily influenced by strategies, including automation stack (agent-first approaches yield higher satisfaction, faster workflows), procurement methods (agent builder platforms are favored for deployment), and oversight models. learn.g2.com/hubfs/G2-Ins...

For design and development, AI is useful for creating prototypes, handling small coding tasks, and reviewing existing websites or designs through tools that predict user attention or identify UX flaws, though it's not yet production-ready for complex work. www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/10/ai-u...

Scenarios often dismissed as "edge cases" encompass life changes (such as name changes or death), complex user behaviors (like multiple or shared accounts), malicious actors, and technical challenges (incl. slow connections, data exports, and collaboration issues). www.nngroup.com/articles/edg...

Remembering D’Angelo: The Eternal Spell of "Voodoo" www.theringer.com/2020/01/24/m... via @longreads.com

Hidden in plain sight aeon.co/essays/child... via @longreads.com

One Four Two Five Old Sunset Trail: On the last days of Gene Hackman harpers.org/archive/2025... via @seywarddarby.bsky.social

The Quest to Resurrect a Texas Ghost Town texashighways.com/travel/the-q... via @cherilucasrowlands.com