Hahahaha. The inside of that building sure feels that way.

Dev working with blackskyweb.xyz is exploring implementing the "mute boosts from this user" feature

Poster for the Toronto Product Con, Conference + Unconference on May 28, 2026 at the Ted Rogers School of Management. Headliners: April Dunford, Ben Erez & Marc Baselga, Ben Yosovitz, Colin Matthews, John Culter, Radhika Dutt. Speakers: Abinandhini Raju, Andrew Shaw, Amber Foucault, Andrea Michalek, Andrew Williams, Angeli Mehta, Balaji Gopalan, Daniel de Repentigny, Emily Reid, Jenya Farris, Joan Milway, John Stetic, May Wong, Mike Ho, Iris Guo, Ross Saunders, Rowan Noronha, Scott Miller, Vlad Vanzha + more TBA. Sponsors: Lodestone, Bizby, Toronto TechWeek, Toronto Metropolitan University, The Product Recruiter. Event hosted by the Toronto Product Management Association.

Toronto Product Conference - May 28 - speaker announcement!

Hype! Some of my favourite product people are speaking! @johncutle.fish @thatandream.com @focusedchaos.co

Tickets: www.tpma.ca/conference/t...

#Toronto #TorontoProductCon #productmgmt

I hated being put on diversity panels because it wasn't my area of expertise. I guess that's changed a bit since then, but I'd still rather talk product to a product audience.

"Are you here for the diversity?" 💀💀💀

I was skeptical, but my partner has one and now I'm sold on it. Easy battery access, especially for all the rechargeable ones.

Poster for the Toronto Product Con, Conference + Unconference on May 28, 2026 at the Ted Rogers School of Management. Headliners: April Dunford, Ben Erez & Marc Baselga, Ben Yosovitz, Colin Matthews, John Culter, Radhika Dutt. Speakers: Abinandhini Raju, Andrew Shaw, Amber Foucault, Andrea Michalek, Andrew Williams, Angeli Mehta, Balaji Gopalan, Daniel de Repentigny, Emily Reid, Jenya Farris, Joan Milway, John Stetic, May Wong, Mike Ho, Iris Guo, Ross Saunders, Rowan Noronha, Scott Miller, Vlad Vanzha + more TBA. Sponsors: Lodestone, Bizby, Toronto TechWeek, Toronto Metropolitan University, The Product Recruiter. Event hosted by the Toronto Product Management Association.

Toronto Product Conference - May 28 - speaker announcement!

Hype! Some of my favourite product people are speaking! @johncutle.fish @thatandream.com @focusedchaos.co

Tickets: www.tpma.ca/conference/t...

#Toronto #TorontoProductCon #productmgmt

Ecological awe is a thing I’ve mentioned about in a few talks, but I don’t think it has a super solid definition anywhere

@grimalkina.bsky.social introduced me to the idea and I fell in love with it

To me, ecological awe is a deep respect of and ability to articulate the nuances in an ecosystem

I woke up my partner cackling when I read this earlier. What a ludicrous idea.

Did you see this? github.com/JuliusBrusse...

Who needs context embedded in language anyway?

What's a bit of casual racism putting the Chinese language into a project called "Caveman"?

This is my default search engine for that reason. noai.duckduckgo.com

Troutman @robotrowboat Boss: Let's put this matter aside for the time being Me: [looking around nervously] Can only you see the time being? Boss: Huh? Me: Is it standing near me? Boss: Who? Me: [on verge of panic attack] The time being 6:33 PM 06 Jan 18

This damn post has absolutely ruined my brain every time I hear someone mention "for the time being." Major kudos to the poster, if I ever meet you in person I will congratulate you and then punch you in the face.

I had a link in the previous issue that really stuck with me, about the real bottlenecks of the process that vibe outputs completely overwhelm

My dad called this second order consequences.

It's like IBM Watson, 10 years later.

And then attaching this to ideals of craft, mastery etc, and lots of applause from tech folks including some folks I know. I worked for a long time with many students who experienced profound discrimination and exclusion from tech so it's hard to see

I came across Evan Dahm's work many years ago. I even have a volume of Vattu at home! So well done.

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

Such a good read.

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are

1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

me screaming: NPS only works if they don't understand NPS!!!!!

Everyone understands the NPS scale now.

Every time something like jira or gmail asks me to fill out an NPS survey, I'm like, "What exactly do you think the choices in this space are?"

Low volume enterprise product. They measure success via NPS and talk about it like it matters. I'm dying inside.

We’re losing the ability to make computers and helium balloons because society maxed out its tech tree

Earth can no longer earn more skill points, only reassign them. Discovering a new technology requires forgetting an existing one

I'm so tired of AI everything. The costs to the business are so high. 😭

Your company doesn't need an "AI strategy."

It needs a business strategy that happens to use AI where it makes sense.

The difference is everything.

#ProductManagement #AI

someone like doctorow will never take the extra step this writer is very kindly inviting them to take because foundational to their worldview is the idea that digital tech is liberation. seeing it as emerging from oppression invalidates everything they’ve ever advocated for.

there are real experts on the Iran War geopolitics & geographies & i'm very far from one! (the human & ecological costs that people in that region are paying/will pay are unconscionable)

but: there is something like a force field of empire in my back yard bsky.app/profile/inqu... (lazy 🧵 incoming)

Black and white aerial photo of oil storage containers on land

Los Angeles has been a major hub in petrocapitalism for about a century

This is an aerial view of oil tanks, Los Angeles Harbor area, 1924 (📸 is LA Public Library)

Next up in CAT TALKS: I will be speaking at CTO Craft Con Toronto, coming up May 19-20.

And it's going to be a very special BRAND NEW keynote from me: What To Do When You’re Measuring It Wrong: A Software Scientist’s Guide to Designing AI Evidence that Actually Helps 😄 😱