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@productnerd.bsky.social
Product Ops Evangelist. Toronto. Any Pronouns. Community Builder.
Scaling great product orgs. Loves complexity and healthy teams.
Coping with memes. Supporting ODLAN.ca.
Find my stuff: https://linktr.ee/productnerd
Scaling great product orgs. Loves complexity and healthy teams.
Coping with memes. Supporting ODLAN.ca.
Find my stuff: https://linktr.ee/productnerd
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Is ProdOps the product manager of product management? | May Wong — Talking Roadmaps
In Season 2 Episode 3 of Talking Roadmaps, Justin Woods interviews May Wong to explore the evolving role of product operations. They unpack the idea of ProdOps as the “product manager of product manag...
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I did a podcast!
The lovely people at Talking Roadmaps had me on to discuss product operations and how product organizations can work smoothly together. There's a lot here about working cultures and how to scale.
What a great conversation.
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#productsky
The lovely people at Talking Roadmaps had me on to discuss product operations and how product organizations can work smoothly together. There's a lot here about working cultures and how to scale.
What a great conversation.
www.talkingroadmaps.com/episodes/is-...
#productsky
"Capitalism isn't skipping 1:1s, giving toxic feedback, or changing goals frameworks every quarter — fucking Mike is doing that."
(Mike was a great boss though.)
(Mike was a great boss though.)
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Capitalism isn't skipping 1:1s, giving toxic feedback, or changing goals frameworks every quarter — fucking Mike is doing that."
(Mike was a great boss though.)
(Mike was a great boss though.)
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come join us tomorrow night, 6.30-8.15 pm
OCADU - 205 Richmond Street West, Toronto
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OCADU - 205 Richmond Street West, Toronto
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What Can Systems Thinkers Learn from Tech Governance
Bianca Wylie and Su Lynn Myat in discussion about the connections and relationship between tech governance and systems thinking.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
come join us tomorrow night, 6.30-8.15 pm
OCADU - 205 Richmond Street West, Toronto
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OCADU - 205 Richmond Street West, Toronto
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Sunday, Nov 9, I'm taking the stage with @saeedwkhan.bsky.social at Product Soch in Mississauga to talk about B2B Product Management! It's going to be so much fun. (There's even shawarma!)
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Product Soch Canada Presents: An In-Person Product Community Meetup!
We’re back with another chai-fueled evening of product conversations, insights, and connections right here in #Mississauga
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November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Sunday, Nov 9, I'm taking the stage with @saeedwkhan.bsky.social at Product Soch in Mississauga to talk about B2B Product Management! It's going to be so much fun. (There's even shawarma!)
www.linkedin.com/posts/produc...
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Sunday, Nov 9, I'm taking the stage with @saeedwkhan.bsky.social at Product Soch in Mississauga to talk about B2B Product Management! It's going to be so much fun. (There's even shawarma!)
www.linkedin.com/posts/produc...
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#mississauga #productsoch #productmanagement #productcommunity #gta #torontoevents #mississauga #networking #b2bproducts | Product Soch
Product Soch Canada Presents: An In-Person Product Community Meetup!
We’re back with another chai-fueled evening of product conversations, insights, and connections right here in #Mississauga
Whether...
www.linkedin.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Sunday, Nov 9, I'm taking the stage with @saeedwkhan.bsky.social at Product Soch in Mississauga to talk about B2B Product Management! It's going to be so much fun. (There's even shawarma!)
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Folks!
I'm so looking forward to this Catharsis Dev Science Office Hour. Still some spots if you want to join us November 13th to do a hackathon-style mad dash of a study design!
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I'm so looking forward to this Catharsis Dev Science Office Hour. Still some spots if you want to join us November 13th to do a hackathon-style mad dash of a study design!
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Design a Study: with Dr. Cat Hicks
Join our free & open Developer Science Office Hour to "Design-a-Study"! Like Build-a-Bear, but for learning about research design!
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November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Folks!
I'm so looking forward to this Catharsis Dev Science Office Hour. Still some spots if you want to join us November 13th to do a hackathon-style mad dash of a study design!
www.eventbrite.com/e/design-a-s...
I'm so looking forward to this Catharsis Dev Science Office Hour. Still some spots if you want to join us November 13th to do a hackathon-style mad dash of a study design!
www.eventbrite.com/e/design-a-s...
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What Ashley's understating is she ran a free community event where scientists tell stories in one of San Diego's hopping neighborhoods and they absolutely packed the house of a woman-led business (Bivouac Ciderworks!) and the entire thing was a delight
Like 3x the people we expected showed up
Like 3x the people we expected showed up
I want science communication to contain narrative.
I want it to be honest and insightful.
I want it to be in and for our community.
We did all of this at our SASSY "Little Lab of Horrors" event this week and I am so, so proud of our storytellers and the work we put into this.
I want it to be honest and insightful.
I want it to be in and for our community.
We did all of this at our SASSY "Little Lab of Horrors" event this week and I am so, so proud of our storytellers and the work we put into this.
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
What Ashley's understating is she ran a free community event where scientists tell stories in one of San Diego's hopping neighborhoods and they absolutely packed the house of a woman-led business (Bivouac Ciderworks!) and the entire thing was a delight
Like 3x the people we expected showed up
Like 3x the people we expected showed up
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World where curses are real so if you go down to the drugstore there's a witch on staff who once a year will cast a mild curse on you so that your body builds up its natural defenses against stronger curses
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
World where curses are real so if you go down to the drugstore there's a witch on staff who once a year will cast a mild curse on you so that your body builds up its natural defenses against stronger curses
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My 8yo told me she had a dream that she went "taco treating," which is where you go door to door and people give you tacos
October 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My 8yo told me she had a dream that she went "taco treating," which is where you go door to door and people give you tacos
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Thinking is invisible labor. Collaboration is invisible labor
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thinking is invisible labor. Collaboration is invisible labor
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SOS CRISIS: EMERGENCY SURVIVAL FUND. Daily panic attacks are destroying me. I'm choosing between medication and food - life or death choices. Every day. Applying for roles from CX, admin, QA and customer service but getting destroyed by AI. Sharing means the world and everything counts. Cheers!
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October 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
SOS CRISIS: EMERGENCY SURVIVAL FUND. Daily panic attacks are destroying me. I'm choosing between medication and food - life or death choices. Every day. Applying for roles from CX, admin, QA and customer service but getting destroyed by AI. Sharing means the world and everything counts. Cheers!
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I’d love to have anti citations though. Like I don’t want paper analyzers to know that I cited something, I wanted them to know that I anti cited it. I called it out cause it was bad and it deserved to feel bad and I want it to not get cited going forward
I encounter this constantly in software writing too. People bitch: why didn't you cite x old book? Because. It was bad. And I disagree with it. Because I have a threshold for quality, sorry!
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I’d love to have anti citations though. Like I don’t want paper analyzers to know that I cited something, I wanted them to know that I anti cited it. I called it out cause it was bad and it deserved to feel bad and I want it to not get cited going forward
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tuned into some of the nunavut election broadcast and it was so cool to see how seamlessly they switched between english and (what i assume was) inuktitut. we should really be hearing more of the indigenous languages in canada.
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
tuned into some of the nunavut election broadcast and it was so cool to see how seamlessly they switched between english and (what i assume was) inuktitut. we should really be hearing more of the indigenous languages in canada.
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the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now
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for context: the second edition of "Observability Engineering" starts off swinging with an opinionated chapter called "The Fundamentals of Building Good Software".
which begs the question... what IS ✨ good software ✨?
i'll drop my answers 👇 but curious to hear others.
which begs the question... what IS ✨ good software ✨?
i'll drop my answers 👇 but curious to hear others.
@charity.wtf asked a great question on LinkedIn today. Her question was: "What is ✨ good software ✨?"
I'd love to hear your answers, but I'd also like to share mine. So if you'll allow me a moment of indulgence... 🧵
I'd love to hear your answers, but I'd also like to share mine. So if you'll allow me a moment of indulgence... 🧵
October 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
for context: the second edition of "Observability Engineering" starts off swinging with an opinionated chapter called "The Fundamentals of Building Good Software".
which begs the question... what IS ✨ good software ✨?
i'll drop my answers 👇 but curious to hear others.
which begs the question... what IS ✨ good software ✨?
i'll drop my answers 👇 but curious to hear others.
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All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)
October 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)
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I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
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i ask myself this a lot vis-à-vis sense atlas and intertwingler, and i can say that both address otherwise (literally) un-addressable problems i encountered both as an FTE and as a consultant; as such my answer to 1) is it'll be wrong until it isn't and 2) is adjust until that happens…
There are two questions I ask people making a product bet:
1) How will you know if you were wrong?
2) What can you do if you're wrong?
The answers for a bad bet are "we won't" and "nothing."
And that's exactly what big tech is doing: rushing forward with eyes closed and fingers in their ears.
1) How will you know if you were wrong?
2) What can you do if you're wrong?
The answers for a bad bet are "we won't" and "nothing."
And that's exactly what big tech is doing: rushing forward with eyes closed and fingers in their ears.
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
October 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
i ask myself this a lot vis-à-vis sense atlas and intertwingler, and i can say that both address otherwise (literally) un-addressable problems i encountered both as an FTE and as a consultant; as such my answer to 1) is it'll be wrong until it isn't and 2) is adjust until that happens…
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oh fuck yes now we are cooking
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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
ino.to
October 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
oh fuck yes now we are cooking
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when do we start using a term other than “social” media?
October 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
when do we start using a term other than “social” media?
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”The pain of being able to touch someone who is no longer there is unbearable. And when the second death comes, the death of body, there is almost a sense of relief, and along with that, of course, the shame of feeling it.“
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How to die
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October 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
”The pain of being able to touch someone who is no longer there is unbearable. And when the second death comes, the death of body, there is almost a sense of relief, and along with that, of course, the shame of feeling it.“
buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
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Along with everything else that's wrong here, I'm SUPER upset this is going to be a lot of people's first exposure to Bukharian jomahs. Which are actually pretty fab when they're worn where it's appropriate, and have a cool, but possibly apocryphal, origin.
You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Along with everything else that's wrong here, I'm SUPER upset this is going to be a lot of people's first exposure to Bukharian jomahs. Which are actually pretty fab when they're worn where it's appropriate, and have a cool, but possibly apocryphal, origin.
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I’ve been training my whole life for this moment
September 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I’ve been training my whole life for this moment