iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/07/2026

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Teams must do their part to become empowered. During Groupon's hyper-growth phase, we formed teams to support operations drowning in manual processes. Our team wasn't the expert. So we shadowed our internal customers, learned their problems, and defined how we'd measure progress.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Empowerment in product teams doesn't happen by stepping back. A company formed new squads and gave teams a lot of freedom. The teams became overwhelmed and totally lost. Progress stalled. Their biggest issue wasn't desire. It was setup and support.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Empowerment in product teams is both coveted and rare. Everyone wants it. Few attain it. Product teams want more ownership, but they aren't trusted by leadership. Leaders don't want to micromanage, but it feels too risky to let go. Both sides want the same thing. Neither knows how to get there.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The secret of building any new habit or process is starting with a small change. Celebrate that you did it, come back the next day and do a little bit more — if you are ready.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Time to refresh the accounts you follow by hitting "follow all" on ALL THREE 🦋 starter packs...follow 300+ product managers in 15 seconds go.bsky.app/9UvJJ6g go.bsky.app/GCjK7ya go.bsky.app/HgZVU3P

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randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 19/06/2026

A bunch of us — (44!) — just spent a while writing a new manifesto. Think Agile Manifesto, but for building things in the age of AI. This is the Makers Manifesto makersmanifesto.org

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Makers Manifesto — Principles for making great products

Core principles for how to make great products in an AI-driven world, created by a global group of cross-disciplinary experts and operators.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I love remote work, but it can be isolating. • Get outside, even for coffee/food/a short walk • Join communities (e.g. @chiprodalliance.bsky.social) • Exercise & find hobbies separate from work, ideally with others This can be better, if you take care of yourself! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health

How does remote work affect isolation and mental health? We drew on five nationally representative surveys of American workers (N = 588,322) conducted from 2011 to 2024, omitting the peak pandemic yea...

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The more I work in product and with product teams, the more convinced I am that people should spend more time talking to customers. All our internal rituals and debates to build are useless if your features don't resonate with your customers. You may be smart, but you aren't them.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This captures concerns I have about developing too quickly with AI. - “Product builders” skip important critiques from UX and engineering - Most teams have never been good at evaluating & iterating after launches And: big launches have more variables & thus are harder to evaluate. If they try.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Overcommitment in product teams is insidious. It leads to predictable compromises: PMs skip discovery, designers skip exploration & user testing, engineers optimize for velocity over understanding. Many teams end up with more goals than people. Everyone feels harried. Actual progress is slow. 1/3

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 04/06/2026

Hello friends I’m on the lookout for my next client I’m looking for part-time/full-time projects and I can help you with - front-end development / architecture - design systems consultancy & development - design tokens integrations, set-ups, tooling - front-end archeology www.alwaystwisted.com

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Always Twisted - Design Systems & Front-End Consultant

Hi, I’m Stu Robson, a Design Systems consultant and front-end developer helping teams create scalable, accessible systems that enhance collaboration.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Which of those features met a customer need? Which did not? Good luck telling the difference. But it’s “easier” if they just assume they had a 100% success rate because smart people told AI what to crank out. Think this is going to build a winning product?

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

What pisses me off is that if a COO asked me to justify the ROI of teaching teams to work in smaller batches with faster feedback loops, I can easily point to real, measured impact on release cycle times and change lead times. More throws of the dice for the same investment, basically.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live UB40 Fine Young Cannibals U2 Sting Grateful Dead The Other Ones Ziggy Marley Mana Eagles Herbie Hancock

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Early in my career I got a strong performance rating. My boss said "you're doing great, keep it up" and that was it. I walked out proud yet frustrated. I had no idea what the next level looked like or what it would take to get there.

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Arsenal FC @arsenalfc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Happy Dave Brubeck Day for those who are more into jazz than Star Wars.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Zoom experience: • Wait for new version to install; no visible improvements • Dismiss message that I am the host of my own meeting • Dismiss Zoom notetaker I never choose • Admit AI notetaker I always invite • Turn off video of my AI notetaker All with unique UI patterns. Many times daily. Grrrr.

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🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦 @mizati.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I think most people would prefer this. #Science

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Love this Fermi quote at the end: “There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.”

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 03/04/2026

It's the weekend in some time zones, go follow some soccer nerds

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Yes and… • Invest in their growth • Give them stretch opportunities • Remove obstacles from their path Talented people need great leadership too.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Although RICE scores are relative, there is a massive disconnect: For many teams the "confidence" scores range from 50% for low up to 100% for high. The success rate of features without iteration is usually closer to 20%, and not enough teams iterate. www.buildcrescendo.com/blog/overcon...

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Your team is probably getting feature assumptions wrong without knowing it—here's how to change. — Crescendo Product Group -- David Jesse transformation and leadership coaching

Most product features fail to deliver expected results, yet teams rarely measure outcomes. Learn why overconfidence hurts product development and how to build better processes

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Something is nagging me about how product teams are responding to AI coding-driven productivity. More development capacity doesn't reduce the need for product sense. If anything, it amplifies it. Teams are producing more and filtering less, at exactly the moment when filtering matters most.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/03/2026

imagine if your heuristics for buying a train ticket were that the train has to be fast, new, and clean, but did not include "is going to the right place"

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The new bottleneck for most products won’t be coding but evaluation post launch: data collection or even sales cycles. Solving for these means maximizing the success rate of launches by understanding customer problems deeply. This isn’t new to PM but now is more important than ever.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

When execution is cheap, those without discipline will overbuild and have cluttered experiences. Rigorous discovery, post-launch evaluation and iteration will be even bigger advantages. Most teams are bad at these and fast coding will make that worse, not compensate for this weakness.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hope you can join us for this virtual event. Rich's book is excellent and I am excited to hear him discuss this live. 4 March, 4pm Central US time.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I heard this from a CEO yesterday. Their platform + AI enabled them to launch a product in 3 months yesterday -- much faster. 6 months later they realized their persona won't pay for this use case. 9 months wasted. AI for prototyping and coding is great. It isn't a substitute for discovery.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

You often hear "software development is changing, and we must adapt" because of Claude Code. But for my entire career, code has been the *easiest* part of making shit people care about, and we still haven't adapted. The easier coding becomes, the less often we ask "do users actually NEED this?"

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Research is leadership, and code can help (but only in the right places)

Code was never the blocker in delivering customer value — and the easier writing code becomes, the more it distracts from the work we must do to unblock productivity.

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Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I really should try and engage with the UXR community but I have no idea where to start

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"We have no success metrics but we launched on time."

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Sonia and Adam are great. Congratulations to them!

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It did not feel great that I needed to edit my website's client list to remove a company that has openly cooperated with ICE.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Benfica's goalkeeper scored yesterday against Real Madrid to advance in Champions League. He'd never touched the ball in opponent's half all tournament. Product teams need this mindset: everyone's job is helping the team win, not defending role boundaries. www.buildcrescendo.com/blog/team-su...

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Why Team Success Trumps Job Descriptions — Crescendo Product Group -- David Jesse transformation and leadership coaching

When a goalkeeper scores in the 98th minute to win the match, it's a lesson in teamwork. Product teams face the same challenge: rigid role definitions create silos and missed opportunities. Learn why ...

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Tough travel yesterday. Direct flight cancelled after long delay. Rerouted. Connecting flight cancelled after long delay. Sat on floor at crowded airport. Hours spent in line. Had to stay overnight. Didn't reach destination yet. This happens, especially with bad weather, but can be modernized: 1/6

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It is invaluable when clients send me an agenda & reference documents ahead of time. It's the difference between coming prepared with thoughts or a framework to help vs. reacting on the spot. The same applies to meetings with your manager or stakeholders. Set them up to be thoughtful partners.

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a man is sitting in front of a counter and asking for help .

Alt: Jerry Maguire saying "help me help you"

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Welcome to those leaving X from the UK, Australia and everywhere else. Enough is enough. Hope you find this to be better. See below to help find product people. If you are in PM, UX, engineering, data science, or other related fields please follow the starter pack -- and I will follow back.

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Sounds a lot like “I don’t have any measurable results but shipped a lot of features.”

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 18/11/2025

Look I’m no Tech Visionary but this AI “boom” largely seems to be the same 6 companies handing each other bags of money back and for—UPDATE: I’d like to announce my partnership with Nvidia to bring the latest in AI insights to my posts,

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Designers, engineers & data scientists: who are the top community organizations in your space? @chiprodalliance.bsky.social wants to serve the full product triad. Our initial groups & attendees have skewed more towards PM than we'd like. Help us make progress here! Who should we work with?

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I had the privilege of speaking at Mind the Product Chicago last night on expanding future impact for product teams. Energized by the engaged product leaders who showed up. 1/3

David Jesse, Mike Belsito and Sean Flaherty

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David Jesse @davidjproduct.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

• Alphabet X moonshots expect a 2% hit rate • Normal Google tests succeed around 10-20% of the time Yet companies launch and move on without validating a feature’s impact. Is your team better than Alphabet? If not, you should reconsider your approach. www.buildcrescendo.com/blog/overcon...

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Your team is probably getting feature assumptions wrong without knowing it—here's how to change. — Crescendo Product Group -- David Jesse transformation and leadership coaching

Most product features fail to deliver expected results, yet teams rarely measure outcomes. Learn why overconfidence hurts product development and how to build better processes

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Adrian Howard @adrianhoward.com · 13/10/2025

A little ramble on why you should regularly check your #metrics are still useful 👇🏻 adrianhoward.com/posts/give-y...

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Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date

TL;DR: Set expiry dates for your metrics!

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svenning🌲 @svenning.io · 17/10/2025

Bluesky I need your help! Where are my designers at? I'm looking for great design people to follow! 🧑‍🎨 My feed is full of lovely creative developers saying reasonable things, but I need something for my eyes as well 😀 UI design, graphic design, industrial design — everything goes!

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a graphic that says graphic is design is my passion

ALT: a graphic that says graphic is design is my passion

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