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gsto.bsky.social
Helping developers get better at product thinking: https://engineering-product.kit.com/siasd Personal blog about money, business, and agency: http://statetransition.substack.com senior frontend dev at the final banking stack for startups
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me and wife both opened spotify, both times it randomly started on the song "smack sum" by 26j, an artist neither one of us had heard of or seen before. wtf?

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Eisenhower matrix but it's how bad shit is now and how bad shit could get

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

YouTube: "Pivot to vertical video! Instagram: "Vertical video!" Spotify: "Vertical video! " Nintendo: "Spotify clone!" www.nintendo.com/us/switch/on...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Like a proper millennial I watch my TikToks on Instagram. We won't notice the ban for another two weeks or so

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I love @alexanderchee.bsky.social's Bibliomancy assignment — such a great way to encourage exploration of the library, to help students appreciate the value of curiosity and magic of serendipity. I cld see this being ⭐ for first-year composition classes. querent.substack.com/p/bibliomanc...

submitted 96 days ago • 27 comments

never get over the contrast of the family costco trip food for lunch; $4.82 supplies for Q1: $582

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last post of 2024 - my new year's resolution to stop calculating odds of survival, and run directly at my dragons: open.substack.com/pub/statetra...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

the trump / elon drama is all theater. it's a preview of what to come - instead of democrats and republicans, your "choice" in the new kleptocracy is between MAGA or DOGE

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

A B C D E F G H O T T O G O

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

A gym for lawyers called Terms & Conditioning

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

DuckDuckGo everyone its better than Google today

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Oh you think that "javascript is a bad language," do you? All computer languages are bad. Javscript is just chaotic evil and what you want is lawful. There is no such thing as a good computer language because *any* attempt to speak to rocks and make them think is the behavior of warlocks.

submitted 127 days ago • 17 comments

Google Drive tabs are going to be killer for working on multiple re-write of longform pieces

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

Big opportunity for someone named Mario out there

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

A test of how seriously your firm is taking AI: when o-1 (& the new Gemini model) came out this week, were there assigned folks who immediately ran the model through your internal, validated, firm-specific benchmarks to see how useful it as? Did you update any plans or goals as a result?

submitted 131 days ago • 11 comments

If you are a software developer who wants to: -Improve their product thinking skills -Understand the business, design, & product side of your biz -Have more ownership and influence in their job I would love to grab some time, answer questions, and help you think through how to approach it 👇

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

New on the blog The Coca-cola commercial looks weird an no one is sure if Mariah Carey is real anymore: how major corporations are leveraging AI for seasonal content www.statetransition.co/p/im-dreamin...

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

Santa putting on his red suit jacket for the first time in a year, finds a twenty in it

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Failure mode I've noticed in myself: Believing I have to read an article or book about the thing before I attempt the thing It's procrastination disguised as intellectualism From now on no think only do. 2025 is gonna be my Leeroy Jenkins year

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

side project idea: tool that does this for BlueSky as a browser extension, doesn't store anything When I've used unrollers I didn't care about archiving, only a more readable layout more suitable for longform content

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

our family tradition on Black Friday has shifting from buying stuff towards getting rid of old stuff we don't need to make room for the new stuff we don't need

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

calling it now: years from now people will say Minnie Mouse has always been in the Macy's day parade, and her being added in 2024 is a Mandela effect

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of tech professionals forget the humanity aspect in tech and forgo how sometimes considering people’s feedback before implementing can actually go a long way and garner support. But many just do things and then try to “oops!” After. Come on now.

submitted 140 days ago • 11 comments