iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The issue might be late because of aforementioned negative six hours of sleep, but subscribe here if you want to read it as soon as it drops, and in the meantime you have the 3 links above to get you started

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Subscribe | The Product Picnic

Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Here's the post! It turned out to only be twice as long as what I normally write. Enjoy!

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AI is not the future of software development, but the last dying gasp of the past

The industry has been building careers and business models around solving the very problems it created. But the conditions that once made this possible are breaking down.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

funny post to read as a game designer who has offered up something quite close to this as a definition of videogames before ("giving players fake problems to solve, and then inventing tools for them to solve them with")

Turning everything into an “interactive experience” is near and dear to an executive’s heart because it lets them manufacture many new problems for the user — assigning users new tasks that they must do — that they can then “solve” by giving the user new tools to do those tasks with.

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