randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 02/08/2026this is one of many reasons that we wrote the Makers Manifesto. makersmanifesto.org/manifesto Purpose over possibility Everything may be possible, not everything is worth building. WHAT IT'S NOT: “Everybody's a builder”. Shipping more because it's cheap, whether or not it's worth making. 010
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 22/07/2026new blog post alert: Boris Cherny's AI Maturity Model Is Smart. It's Also Incomplete. outofowls.com/blog/boris-chernys-ai… 020
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 14/07/2026well done, Thames Water. 1. go to report no water 2. directed to report via WhatsApp 3. sorry, our WhatsApp service is down 4. no other way to report failing gracefully is basic service design. this doesn't cut it. 020
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 01/07/2026in the car, listening to @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social 's Origin Story on paranormal investigation with Mr. 14, who mishears Bilderberg as Build-a-Bear Group. 110
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 14/05/2026a great start to the morning at @agilemanc.bsky.social / Agile Manchester from Kirsten Mann - photo tKen before she got us all line dancing. (no, really. and it was ace.) 031
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 13/04/2026London people! Next week, I'm hosting Kate Leto and @bfgmartin.bsky.social for a free event. Join us! Leadership is harder than ever - learn how to thrive while everyone is being disrupted. RSVP: go.outofowls.com/kate 042
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 29/03/2026If you see this, post a concert photo you took 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 29/03/2026If you see this, post a concert photo you took 110
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 25/03/2026One of the teams I'm working with is French. I'm bilingual, but unfortunately, only in English & American. Their English is strong, but not always up to the job. It's a miracle that we can collaborate, with transcription enabled and real-time translations, and that it works at all. But sometimes... 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 13/03/2026Back when I was a journalist (well, music critic/editor), I grabbed this book from the free pile in the office kitchen. Still my favorite. 010
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 09/01/2026Can’t we JUST do this with AI? Prioritisation has always been hard - but the biggest challenge now is using the right terms to discuss AI requests. The possibilities are exciting, but it’s not magic fairy dust. @edbiden.bsky.social @hustlebadger.bsky.social Sign up here: luma.com/ybdbtxi2?tk=... 030
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 11/12/2025When BAD OKRs happen to good people Most of the time, problems come from the OKRs being either: 😡Too Big 😱Focused on a specific Activity, emphasizing effort rather than results and impact 😠Or they’re Disconnected from overall strategy Yup, that's an excuse for BAD. outofowls.com/blog/when-ba... 010
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 08/12/2025Public voting for @sxsw.com 2026 is open, and I've got two submissions - would love a vote: (and c'mon, SXSW London, get a Bsky handle!) 110
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 13/11/2025When you say AI, I hear Magic Fairy Pixie Dust The word is useless without specificity. RPA? ML? Agentic? LLM? Check out our new, which guide maps technologies to problem complexity using Cynefin: bit.ly/cpoai2 Webinar with Jeff Gothelf & Joshua Seiden next week: www.linkedin.com/events/fromm... 010
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 06/08/2025When coaching, I mentally classify what people are talking about into issues that revolve around 4 Ps: 🎯 Priorities 🤼 People ⚙️ Processes 👀 & Perception This has proved really useful to others, too: outofowls.com/blog/the-pro... You can hear more about it here: www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-1... 130
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 01/07/2025London! 15 July! Free @tamifrommiami.bsky.social talking about The Art of Influence - Gaining, keeping & mastering it & giving away some copies of her new book. Plus a panel chat with @mattlemay.com, @lilylimpet.bsky.social & @carwowuk.bsky.social's Sean Cason! RSVP at lu.ma/1zs55yzm 010
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 27/05/2025Today's question: is this a location for Andor, or a view from a London hotel where lê I'm facilitating a strategy offsite? 120
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 26/03/2025A problem that crops up time & again: how to make impact when there's no strategy in place? Or when an ambition has been mistaken for an actual strategy? I'm giving a talk on the subject soon - but I'd love to hear from you. Please share your experience (outofowls.com/strategy-talk) 150
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 11/02/2025I quite like Beeper (aggregator of messaging from various apps, but strangely not yet Bluesky...), but the image on the page for their Beta desktop build is just WEIRD. Who posts a sample image with this kind of conversation? 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 13/01/2025The best part of business travel is meeting up with amazing people in new cities. Lovely dinnerbin DC with @csteinlehner.com and others! 130
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 10/01/2025Hey! For the last six(!) years, Lily Smith and I have been talking to amazing people on The Product Experience podcast every. single. week. 🎙️What (or who!) do you want to hear in future episodes? Help us craft podcast episodes that truly matter to you. 👉 forms.gle/vWxXtB1JntvK... #Product 134
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 12/12/2024Scenes from Rotterdam: Are you a Friqly Man or a Sissy Boy? 140
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 04/12/2024@thormitchell.bsky.social was our very first guest on The Product Experience podcast, and it was great to have him back to chat about building an Associate Product Manager program during his time as a VP Product at Miro. 162
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 28/11/2024Nice panel on modern product leadership in that there London, calling out plenty of BS that's often thought of as best practice. Good stuff from James Gunaca, Simon Cross, Nani Nitinavakorn, and Cinzia Ricciardone. Thanks to Mind the Product for hosting. 090
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 19/11/2024(I talked about this at Mind the Product last year, and released the model as a canvas. It was fun! More on that here: outofowls.com/blog/the-pro... ) 100
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 11/11/2024Weird to be at the Barbican at this time of year and not be at a Mind the Product conference - but this should be equally nerdy and amazing. 260
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 25/09/2023Coming to the How To Web conference in Bucharest in October and want to up your product game? Join me for a half-day workshop on Product Discovery that Works: Get the Right Things Done, Faster. Limited to 25 seats! htwinstitute.com/workshop/pro... 020
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 12/07/2023Yeah, all of the #product people have had their take on @Airbnb 's change in the PM role - and yet, there's still more: The Journey to Empowered Teams - Twitter, Airbnb & Tumblr www.linkedin.com/pulse/journey-empo… 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 12/07/2023Yeah, all of the #product people have had their take on @airbnb.bsky.social's change in the PM role - and yet, there's still more: The Journey to Empowered Teams - Twitter, Airbnb & Tumblr www.linkedin.com/pulse/journey-empo… 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 30/06/2023@ttorres kicking off #ProductatHeart and smashing it, talking about the practical ways to make Discovery a habit. 100
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 30/06/2023Teresa Torres kicking off #ProductatHeart and smashing it, talking about the practical ways to make Discovery a habit. 100
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 21/06/2023Being a Product Leader is a lonely job - but it doesn't have to be. That's why I started getting groups of CPOs together to support each other. They've been brilliant. Signups open now for July events. Sounds like something you want in on? Join at cpo.social 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 21/06/2023Being a Product Leader is a lonely job - but it doesn't have to be. That's why I started getting groups of CPOs together to support each other. They've been brilliant. Signups are now open for July CPO Roundtables. Sounds like something you want to take part in? Join at www.cpo.social 040
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 24/02/2023The way most of us measure team effectiveness - velocity - is misused, wrong, and (nearly) useless. Just looking at how quickly we move is measuring outputs - Outputs don't pay the bills. You need to measure the value realised. The Myth of Velocity:... 100
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 14/02/2023Some great @MTPpod feedback! Hey Randy, just listened to the episode on how to start a new PM job. Some really awesome advice on there, thanks for putting it together. You and Lily both do such great work for the community with that pod, very grateful buff.ly/3YGVJn6 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 28/01/2023Part N of X, an ongoing photo essay about UX as lived, not as designed. 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 27/01/2023PIT{A} - Lean coffee for Product People - met for our 41st time this week! We talked about startup funding, working in non-profits, ChatGPT, and if you need to be good at making slide decks to be a Product Manager. Shoutouts to Russell Davies,…... 100
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 03/11/2022Really enjoying @delizalde's new book, The B2B Innovator's Map. There are tons of practical + actionable things here... For one, When's the last time you mapped your SME/Enterprise product experience across all of these phases? 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 01/11/20221. Who is following Liz Truss on LinkedIn and why? 2. But fair play, she has updated her status 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 14/10/2022When @ItamarGilad puts this slide up, it looks SO simple. #mtpcon 000
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 22/09/2022Calling #HR / #People leaders! I'm looking to learn more about what your Product Development teams need to succeed. Please fill out this short (very short!) survey: forms.gle/PTusSy1QBUS3RvEb6 If you're also up for a short chat on the topic, I'll make a donation to... 100
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 09/09/2022Actually, this could be a @TedLasso situation. @ECB_cricket - I'm up for it if you are! 100
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 09/09/2022@LinkedIn, I think your job recommendation algorithm is a bit off. It sounds like a great gig, but coaching product people =! coaching cricket. 100
randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 22/07/2022And a separate shoutout to @InezLiberato for sharing her approach to retros. They've never been one of my strengths, and they often felt a bit flat - but after adopting her approach, it's changed completely. 100