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Marsh Gardiner

@earth2marsh.com

613 followers 110 following 287 posts

Product manager (the good kind, I promise). I ❤ APIs (designing, building, managing, etc) and spent 14 years taking Apigee from a startup to part of Google Cloud. Involved in OpenAPI, aep.dev, and other OSS. 🌉 SF

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 04/09/2026

And this is the speaking!

Tim stands at a lectern with a screen behind him.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 15/12/2025

The Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra meme from Star Trek, but the words say:

Lewin, Tirst, Bion at Tavistock

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 19/11/2025

Oooh, nice find. This graphic was worth the click all by itself!

Boundary-work in market categories: An assemblage of devices and practices show demarcations and overlaps in-between boundaries of multiple board sports.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 10/02/2025

Clearly there cannot be "one way to do product management." I, myself, organize PM into six fundamental flavors, as shown in this diagram (note the labels along the legs of the triangle). Full post: sociotechnical.org/archive/six-... [1/9] #productmanagement

An iron triangle diagram balances Business, Technology, and Usage forces. A hexagon is inscribed within the triangle, and its vertices are labeled Operator, Architect, Technologist, Innovator, Advocate, and Growth.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 05/12/2024

@episod.bsky.social I recognize that background on your avatar! Same team.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 19/11/2024

This fun experiment compares "the numbers this did" on Bluesky vs Threads after ~2 hours.

A screenshot from a post from Casey on Bluesky with 12 comments, two reposts, and 168 likes

A screenshot from a post from Casey (crumbler) on Threads with 10 comments, three reposts, and 93 likes

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 14/11/2024

Breaking: Trump names Dolores Umbridge to run the Ministry of Magic.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 13/11/2024

Bravo! And as @kissane.bsky.social says, "We have to fix the fucking networks!" bsky.app/profile/kiss... To that end, how often do these get clicked?

Social sharing buttons at the bottom of a blog post. Three of them lead to algorithmically enshittified services.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 13/11/2024

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 05/11/2024

Nice hat!

Portrait of the author wearing the same Midwest-Princess-style camo hat with "Harris Walz" in orange letters

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 17/09/2024

Ah, maybe it is a web issue, as my profile is showing this, too!

screenshot showing how the handle isn't displaying as expected, even following a logout/in cycle.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 17/09/2024

Fun! I seem to have found a little 🐛 in that it shows "Invalid handle." 🤷

Screen shot of the 10m user celebration showing an Invalid Handle bug.

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 07/02/2024

And for convenience, here are all six in a single table.

Table that shows the six sub-roles described in the thread above

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Marsh Gardiner @earth2marsh.com · 07/02/2024

Product management lives in the overlaps of user/biz/tech. One challenge is that there's always a balance to strike. The question that got me thinking was, "What are the different roles that emerge as you vary those priorities?" Here's a diagram to try to express that, and then a thread…

A Venn diagram showing how PM lives in the overlaps of biz/user/tech.

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