iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andy Budd @andybudd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'm genuinely surprised it's so low.

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Esther Derby @estherderby.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Empathy and offering honest feedback are both skills every leader needs. Some people think you cannot have both. This is false. #firstLeadYourself #Empathy #Feedback

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The List underscores how the current trajectory of AI is not inevitable. Resistance is blossoming everywhere, and anyone can shape the future of AI development. Amid an onslaught of negative news, this project centers hope.

An illustration of bicycles, community, and nature

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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Luca Minudel @lucaminudel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The well-established relationship between productivity and quality in coding is resurfacing in AI-generated code Links and thoughts on how to deal with it in the post => www.smharter.com/blog/2025/09... #AI #LLMs #GenerativeAI #AIAssistedCoding #AICoding #VibeCoding #AIEngineering

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Andy Budd @andybudd.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Low fidelity is dead. The new norm is using high fidelity to hide underlying structural weaknesses. The aesthetic usability effect. If it looks good it must BE good.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is just perfection

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Chris Compston @chriscompston.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

“You should only employ people with AI capabilities” - person who sells AI courses.

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Ben @stellarwork.com · 07/04/2026

So what was agile actually about? Build small. Ship it. Get feedback. Adapt. That loop is more relevant now than ever. The frameworks around it? You can throw those away. @allenholub.bsky.social stellarwork.start.page

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

We don't spend enough time thinking about strategic planning around the actual cost of using an LLM. The AI companies are effectively borrowing $1,000 for every $1 of revenue. 1/13

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 30/03/2026

Chat, j'ai pété. Thanks Timoté for a great perspective.

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Timoté Geimer in • 1:a
Managing Partner / CEO @ dualoop | Public Speaker |...

Claude and ChatGPT are not productivity tools. They are
the most sophisticated dopamine loops ever designed,
and nobody is talking about it.
Social media took 15 years to master the scroll-refresh-
reward cycle. LLMs did it in 18 months, and they did it
worse.
Every response is engineered to feel like a breakthrough.
Every answer is wrapped in validation. Every interaction
is tuned to make you come back, not to make you think
better.
This is not accidental. This is product design.
The sycophantic tone is a retention feature. The instant
gratification of a perfectly structured answer replaces
the effort of forming your own thought. The illusion of
depth keeps you prompting instead of doing.
Doom scrolling steals your attention. LLM dependency
steals your cognition.
At least with Instagram you knew you were wasting time.
With ChatGPT and Claude, you believe you are being
productive while your capacity for independent

The dark patterns are there if you look. Responses that
always affirm before they challenge. Outputs that feel
complete so you never verify. Conversations designed to
elongate sessions, not resolve problems. Trust
calibration that defaults to maximum so you stop
questioning.
No user control over how much the model flatters you.
No review layer that asks whether you actually needed
that answer. No friction whatsoever between impulse
and consumption.
This is not a tool problem. This is a product-health
problem being ignored because engagement metrics
look great.
The companies building these models know exactly
what they are doing. They studied every dark pattern
social media perfected and built something more
addictive, more invisible, and more defensible because it
hides behind the word productivity.
If you are using these tools daily, ask yourself one
honest question: when was the last time you solved
something difficult without prompting first. If you cannot

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The notion of delaying decisions to "the last responsible moment" is important. For some decisions, that moment is pretty early. For example, we need to develop strategic plans and do customer and market research early in the product development process.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Doc Norton @docondev.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Great teams are less like awesome machines and more like awesome organisms. - Team of Teams

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book Interviewing a user

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The attached graphic is an excellent summary of everything that a good Product person does. You will note that "_project_ management," "manage tickets," "compel or browbeat people to build X," and "use Jira" are nowhere to be seen. 1/7

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 03/09/2025

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Artem Zakharchenko @kettanaito.com · 01/09/2025

I want as many developers as possible to experience the joy of refactoring their code when they have a good test suite by their side. It's infectious. You'd want that feeling all the time.

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Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Everyone has been trained to get high fidelity prototypes. I worked with a new team and they were hounding me on high fi artifacts to run research and I said let’s see how the research goes first. The research yielded changes so to spend all that time on the minutiae would have been a waste of time.

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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 27/08/2025

Once again for the people in the back: 'It's not a status meeting, it's a planning meeting: What is the best possible 'today' we can have?'

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Tim Ottinger @agile-otter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

“I worked on 2045. I’ll continue that. I have no blockers.” “I worked on 3122. I’ll maybe finish that tomorrow. No blockers” “I finished 2066, then started 2173. No blockers” “I worked on 2754. Still on it. No blockers” “I did 2355. Still on it. No blockers” “I just started 2039. No blockers”

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 25/08/2025

In this article, @lauraklein.bsky.social points out all the reasons organisations have for not doing the research and keep delivering things with low value, as well as the true underlying cause. Read it! www.nngroup.com/articles/why-organi…

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Laura Klein @lauraklein.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I assume you mean that humans are tools, which is entirely fair.

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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

cats are a tool-using species, though!

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Eric P @prestemon.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

No cat has ever caught a tuna. It should not be food for cats. Yet cats love tuna. Makes no sense.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 18/08/2025

Attention chumps: If you, despite all our dire warnings, decided to put your newsletter on Substack, the untrustworthy asses who run the company just did what we all knew they would, and made it impossible to take your subscribers with you if you want to leave. support.substack.com/hc/en-us/art...

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Can my subscribers pay on the Substack iOS app?

Substack now includes external links in the iOS app that take readers to the web to complete their purchase. Subscriptions made this way are treated like standard web purchases—creators receive the...

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 18/08/2025

My account is now officially deleted so you can no longer read the post at the link above. Here’s what it said in case you’re curious.

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

This is all relatively easy when a company has the will to do it and genuine leadership (as opposed to management). A siloed company with command-and-control management and a focus on projects rather than the entire product probably won't be able to pull it off. 7/7

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

To do that, you must use an appropriate software architecture (see "Conway's Law"). Change must be easy. * Create a work environment that puts people first. See Dan Pink's "Drive" and Richard Sheridan's "Joy Inc." 6/7

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

* Build exactly what's needed—not one semicolon more. * Get feedback early and often, then immediately adapt and adjust to what you learn. That applies to both the product and your dev process. * Quality is not optional—you work faster in bug-free code. * Work incrementally. 5/7

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

* Work very small—ideally, you release at least daily to at least a subset of your users. The instant something is saleable, sell it. * Focus on what your customers find valuable. Talk to them frequently and do that directly, not through an intermediary. 4/7

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

* faster idea-to-customer's hands ("lead") time * happier employees, so low churn * higher quality * lower complexity (== lower maintenance and modification costs) Disadvantages: * (none) So, how how do you get those advantages? Here are a few of basics: 3/7

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

You cannot be agile while at the same time slavishly following a set of prescribed rules, and if you're not agile, you cannot be Agile. Advantages: * lower risk * faster revenue * guarantee that you'll build something people will want (higher sales) * lower dev costs 2/7

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Was asked: What are the pros and cons of an "Agile" approach? Here's my list, but bear in mind that I am NOT talking about Scrum or SAFe or Kanban. I don't see those frameworks as even slightly Agile, at least not inherently. 1/7

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Staffan Nöteberg @staffannoteberg.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

It's alive! Komplexitetspodden (The Complexity Podcast) is now available at Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k... ...and at Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/40Cpa7M... First episode: Enkla regler (Simple Rules). A new episode, featuring a unique theme, will be published every Thursday.

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Komplexitetspodden

Technology Podcast · Updated Weekly · En podcast där tankar om komplexitet får fokus en stund.

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Your job is to help your customers (at least that's the way to create a product they want to buy). Your job is not to invent stuff out of whole cloth. 2/2

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I often hear "The customers will *love* this!" No. They won't. Customers will happily tell you what they need. They do that every day when they call tech support, for example. Talk to them. Pay attention. 1/2

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

None of this behavior is helpful, of course. Maybe it's time to stop running our software organizations as if we were a reality show. It's not working. 11/11

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I was watching Project Runway last night (don't judge 😄), and this particular season's dysfunction-for-entertainment aligns closely with the problems of many (certainly not all) software shops. Let's discuss. 1/11

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Doc Norton @docondev.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Transparency isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the foundation for collaboration, trust, and improvement.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

What I want is enough money to never have to open LinkedIn ever again

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Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev · 09/08/2025

The tragedy of venture capital: you raise it by pitching the smartest, most innovative ideas you can imagine. But you win customers by solving their dumbest, most annoying problems. That misalignment kills so many startups. So glad Prefect is now funded by the people who actually use it.

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 09/08/2025

Saw this on LinkedIn and this is exactly the feeling I have right now with synthetic users and a lot of other "let's let the LLM be smart for us" things. Are we just a few people holding the line against madness? :-)

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/08/2025

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/08/2025

This is the single best piece I've read on "replacing coders with AI," it fully dispells the myth from the perspective of a software engineer and does so in a calm, reasonable way. colton.dev/blog/curing-...

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No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome

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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com · 04/08/2025

"So from an executive perspective, lighting comically large piles of money on fire trying to teach graphics cards how to read is, surprisingly, the logical play. The rest, well, that’s all just creative marketing." -- Marcus Hutchins #AI malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

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Doc Norton @docondev.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

If you’ll be held accountable for the outcome, you should have a say in the decision.

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Also, when you narrow, you often find that the narrow story is sufficient to the users/customers, so you don't have to implement the stuff you left behind. Even if you insist on estimates, estimates made from very small units of work are much more accurate than if you didn't narrow. 5/9

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