productnerd.bsky.social
Product Ops Evangelist. Toronto. Any Pronouns. Community Builder.
Scaling great product orgs. Loves complexity and healthy teams.
Coping with memes. Supporting ODLAN.ca.
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I feel like this would backfire really quickly and freeze a ton of organizations.
But it's a great idea.
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I was taught to do the double space after periods and still occasionally slip back into it. At least Gboard now autocorrect double spaces to a period.
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This one gets me every single time.
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So you know how the Irish head of state is always accompanied by those beautiful dogs?
What if we just make the head of state a dog? The State funds a constant stream of happy dog pics as a public service. Patriotic duty to look at dog videos.
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Tear down the monarchy!
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And for the rest of my time there, I had to say that acronym/product name over and over again. 😭
(There was even a good name, but it had the same acronym as a decades old internal component in our portfolio. So it was not allowed.)
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Many attempts at naming later, the boss got tired of thinking of names, and told me to go to market with possibly the worst one. It contained a W.
Sales was flabbergasted by the naming choice. Marketing checked the boxes and said okay.
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It was a frontend data aggregator and insights tool for an extremely specific niche field. At the time, the company mandated descriptive names for what the product did... But banned the words "insight" and "analytics" if it didn't contain AI. (Before ChatGPT).
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September, unless I want to do something in the summer time. :)
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That is a crime that even my conscience cannot bear.
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If you have an acronym-heavy industry or company culture, learn from my mistakes. No W's.
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Why don't we fix it?
Does the org want you to fix it? If product is doing their job, it changes the power structure of the org. Whoever's making decisions today is going to push back.
Who's fixing it? Why is this change happening? Which execs are onboard?
Big questions.
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This "making sure" piece means that PMs end up feeling compelled to fill gaps left around you. Project management. Sales enablement. Technical sales. Design. Research. Leadership. Scrum whatever.
A whole mixed bag. This is the "org not working" part.
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So I define product management as making sure the org is actually doing the most important things to grow/sustain/[insert goal here] for their product. Someone's doing this at the company whether or not they have product managers.
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my anecdata is that people outside the industry go to "fashion" when you just say designer
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Same as product. The lack of role clarity and alignment on what product should be is burning everyone out.
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I had one large company use my legal name for my work email.
At least they relented when I pushed back.
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Yeah, not even my doctors use my legal name anymore. I exit job applications that ask for a legal name without a preferred name. (Not even a trans issue for me.)
Can't imagine what it'd be like for trans people. 😭
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Yikes. I used to do midnight calls with Asia (because it was easier for me than waking up early.) Then Germany would want to meet at 8am.
I don't miss those days.
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Decades of community building by my predecessors. Just doing my part to give back and grow our community.
They're good people.
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1989. The Skydome. Pretty old yeah.
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Our baseball stadium is where they host all these shows, and the acoustics are AWFUL. The clips are all echoey.
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I keep going back to this article by @joolia.bsky.social on how empathy is systematically being turned into a bad thing. It's everywhere.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Yeah, but more different income streams for different projects. She keeps all of them going. It's so much work.
Substack is probably her lowest traction platform, thus low priority.
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I want to add some context to the 3rd one. This is an indie journalist. She knows that Substack is bad, but it's not her primary outlet. At the same time, her podcast integration is going obsolete, and Patreon is being weird again.
To non-techies, all tech is the same work bucket. Not the main job.
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I moved off Substack, but here are the answers I got when I asked my fav creators to move:
- Majority say more people find their stuff through recommendations.
- Some don't care enough since it's free.
- It's low on their priority list and they've got enough "tech" to deal with already.
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You know exactly when this person starts running too.
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Please include a chapter called “Do Some Damn Research” to discuss this: bsky.app/profile/salg...
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Speaking of, this one just got here yesterday!
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The suit includes the legal definition of Shrek
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The creeping at a restaurant is such a fantastic analogy.
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It wasn't even a good retort. *sigh* I was hoping for a good breakdown.