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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

When metrics inevitably drop, the blame is placed on the user: they need to be "educated" so that they can "realize the value." Apps get taken over by welcome tours and shitty popup labels demanding that you stop doing what YOU want to accomplish, and attend to the PRODUCT's needs: its features.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

There's a link b/w this and @fasterandworse.com's observation that all software is now productivity software: because the industry killed its ability to frame problems, everyone is just copying each other's features forever. Bosses see something in Jira or Excel and want it in their own product.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Bro is like “I invented bossware but for the home. Where’s my money.”

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 19/02/2026

here you go - wow, 10 months old already bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3lmykmxv6qs2w

Steve Farrugia@fasterandworse.com

Dispatch #21: Everything Is Work Now Tech products have a work/life balance problem Podcast episode: pnc.st/s/faster-and... Video dispatch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_os9... If you enjoy it please consider subscribing, leaving a rating, or writing a review

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Dispatch #21: Everything Is Work Now

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The result is the phenomenon I wrote about the other day: our software becomes chock-full of the loudest, most obnoxious widgets. Product teams copy the UI patterns capable of penetrating executive mind fog until everything looks the same and everything is yelling at you.

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The circular logic of our metrics

We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.

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