"What is an envy-inducing Instagram story, or outrage-stoking Tweet, or bizarrely compelling TikTok, if not a delivery mechanism for a purified and diluted form of the reaction we’d otherwise generate by actually traveling somewhere stimulating, or engaging in real principled protest, or giving ourselves over to undeniably skilled entertainers?"
My son won a Garmin smartwatch at an event a while back but hadn't been using it, so I took it to try it out. It insists on prompting me to press buttons. I tried to check the time during a bike ride today but instead saw one of these "full-screen" prompts randomly displayed on the face.
"Stop trying to onboard me, you're a watch!" I yelled while riding down the road.
2 highlights from the No Kings protest in Dallas yesterday:
1. I couldn't hear the speakers when the wind was blowing away from me. A friend of mine was speaking and I didn't realize it was him until about halfway through when the wind shifted. Was thrilled he was invited to speak, as he is truly one of the good ones.
2. Dallas city hall is flying a huge pride-themed city flag right next to the US and TX flags. It was in my line of sight from where I stood. It's been a thing since 2020.
It's about "states' rights" they ~said~ lied
"In combination with these actions, the presence of the CBP drones paints a picture of expanding federal involvement—and potentially control—over what are typically state matters."
So in launching our product/dev team from scratch, we were able to collectively write our own rules. One standout from that process was "sprint demos/retros suck". And we all knew why: "stakeholders". So we eliminated them, and replaced them with a weekly Friday "Show & Tell" with just prod/dev. They have been my favorite business meetings of my career (25+ years!). Mutual admiration, gratitude, and good vibes.
"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care."
"The user isn’t the customer. And they’re not the product either. The real product is behavioral optimization—metrics on a dashboard.
"...people reduced to NPCs in someone else's growth funnel. Not peers. Not audiences. Just marks—behavioral units to be nudged..."
