May Likes Product
@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...
www.talkingroadmaps.com
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.
www.talkingroadmaps.com/episodes/is-...
#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
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There is a need for deep + strategic pragmatism about ownership vs. control of public technology. We need to understand where ownership is not possible, unlikely, or the wrong site of battle, + where infrastructure minimization or abolition is the right tactic.
biancawylie.medium.com/speaking-at-...
biancawylie.medium.com/speaking-at-...
Speaking at Your City Hall About Technology Policy. Some Possible Whys. (Part I)
Making use of short time for the long game
biancawylie.medium.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:37 PM
There is a need for deep + strategic pragmatism about ownership vs. control of public technology. We need to understand where ownership is not possible, unlikely, or the wrong site of battle, + where infrastructure minimization or abolition is the right tactic.
biancawylie.medium.com/speaking-at-...
biancawylie.medium.com/speaking-at-...
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This one for the @chronicle.com was provocative; earned me a kind of nasty response, but I stand by it and the core argument I was making: expecting the old model of disciplinary associations to work in this new environment is a fool's errand. They weren't designed to be unions.
Opinion | The Irrelevance of the Disciplinary Association
Organizations like the American Historical Association and the Modern Language Association fail those who need them most.
www.chronicle.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This one for the @chronicle.com was provocative; earned me a kind of nasty response, but I stand by it and the core argument I was making: expecting the old model of disciplinary associations to work in this new environment is a fool's errand. They weren't designed to be unions.
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I'm doing a thread of everything I've published this year, but amassing everything I'm struck by how fast the Trump admin moved to wreck the country. I figured that they would move a bit more slowly breaking everything, but no, 2025 was the year of the crowbar and the wrecking ball.
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December 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I'm doing a thread of everything I've published this year, but amassing everything I'm struck by how fast the Trump admin moved to wreck the country. I figured that they would move a bit more slowly breaking everything, but no, 2025 was the year of the crowbar and the wrecking ball.
(Plz boost!)
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Someone sent me an email asking if I wanted to join a VC fund with 2000+ FAANG something something leaders.
A) How did you get my email?
B) That's not a great selling point.
C) VC? In this economy?!
A) How did you get my email?
B) That's not a great selling point.
C) VC? In this economy?!
December 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Someone sent me an email asking if I wanted to join a VC fund with 2000+ FAANG something something leaders.
A) How did you get my email?
B) That's not a great selling point.
C) VC? In this economy?!
A) How did you get my email?
B) That's not a great selling point.
C) VC? In this economy?!
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reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine:
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine:
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."
www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
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It's been a big year at Signal. Thanks to you, more & more people are speaking privately and freely. Thanks to you, we hit the top of app stores in multiple countries & served as critical global comms infrastructure. It's an honor to build Signal for you, with your support. 🩵
December 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It's been a big year at Signal. Thanks to you, more & more people are speaking privately and freely. Thanks to you, we hit the top of app stores in multiple countries & served as critical global comms infrastructure. It's an honor to build Signal for you, with your support. 🩵
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when people go on about building meet them by going on about maintaining.
The instinct to add rather than subtract when it comes to policy – or any kind of problem-solving – runs deep.
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
www.policyready.ca/policymaking...
Less as more: decomputing in the age of tech accelerationism — Resources for today's policymakers
By Bianca Wylie In 2021, in the Journal of Social Computing, historian Jonnie Penn made the argument for “Algorithmic Silence: A Call to Decomputerize.” As he summarizes: “Tech critics become...
www.policyready.ca
December 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
when people go on about building meet them by going on about maintaining.
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there are always lots of tech use consequences that are not law shaped problems (some are, lots are not). the idea that we can regulate our way to the good place cedes way too much power to those currently in power. they'll welcome regulation if it allows them to keep shaping culture.
December 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
there are always lots of tech use consequences that are not law shaped problems (some are, lots are not). the idea that we can regulate our way to the good place cedes way too much power to those currently in power. they'll welcome regulation if it allows them to keep shaping culture.
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I see this in so many places. We've already seen companies like Cursor get raked over the coals for having an effective product that depends on an LLM vendor.
December 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I see this in so many places. We've already seen companies like Cursor get raked over the coals for having an effective product that depends on an LLM vendor.
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Good enough wins because of what you are able to treat as externalities
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Good enough wins because of what you are able to treat as externalities
Why is no one in the corporate world is talking about the massive operational risk of building everything your company is worth on top of captured platforms that are completely unprofitable?
What happens when your GenAI tool vendor raise their prices by 10x?
What happens when your GenAI tool vendor raise their prices by 10x?
December 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Why is no one in the corporate world is talking about the massive operational risk of building everything your company is worth on top of captured platforms that are completely unprofitable?
What happens when your GenAI tool vendor raise their prices by 10x?
What happens when your GenAI tool vendor raise their prices by 10x?
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Something I really liked in 2025 was I found and started reading the Prison Journalism Project
@prisonjournalism.bsky.social
prisonjournalismproject.org
@prisonjournalism.bsky.social
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An independent, national nonprofit organization that trains incarcerated writers to be journalists and publishes their stories.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Something I really liked in 2025 was I found and started reading the Prison Journalism Project
@prisonjournalism.bsky.social
prisonjournalismproject.org
@prisonjournalism.bsky.social
prisonjournalismproject.org
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You’re overthinking quarterly planning.
Most quarterly plans fail because people treat them like strategy resets.
They’re not.
Quarterly planning is about 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, not reinvention.
And when you get that wrong, everything feels heavier than it needs to be.
1/8
Most quarterly plans fail because people treat them like strategy resets.
They’re not.
Quarterly planning is about 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, not reinvention.
And when you get that wrong, everything feels heavier than it needs to be.
1/8
December 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
You’re overthinking quarterly planning.
Most quarterly plans fail because people treat them like strategy resets.
They’re not.
Quarterly planning is about 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, not reinvention.
And when you get that wrong, everything feels heavier than it needs to be.
1/8
Most quarterly plans fail because people treat them like strategy resets.
They’re not.
Quarterly planning is about 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, not reinvention.
And when you get that wrong, everything feels heavier than it needs to be.
1/8
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2025 has been a devastating year for trans people in Canada. Here's a year in review of all anti-trans legal developments out here since the beginning of the year.
celeste.lgbt/en/2025/12/2...
celeste.lgbt/en/2025/12/2...
2025 in Canadian anti-trans law and policy: a year in review • Celeste Trianon
2025 has been a devastating year for trans people in Canada. Here is a summary of how lawmakers and governments have attacked them from coast to coast.
celeste.lgbt
December 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
2025 has been a devastating year for trans people in Canada. Here's a year in review of all anti-trans legal developments out here since the beginning of the year.
celeste.lgbt/en/2025/12/2...
celeste.lgbt/en/2025/12/2...
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Omg: dude today in his 50's had misheard me, thought I was in my 20's so in disagreeing was talking to me like when you're older you'll grow up and understand and be be conservative and he has a degree and knows better. I pointed out I'm *cough* and have 4 degrees so stop being a patronising berk.
December 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Omg: dude today in his 50's had misheard me, thought I was in my 20's so in disagreeing was talking to me like when you're older you'll grow up and understand and be be conservative and he has a degree and knows better. I pointed out I'm *cough* and have 4 degrees so stop being a patronising berk.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Are you a security researcher or journalist? We want to hear from you — please take this survey!
Dissent Doe at DataBreaches.net, and yours truly at this.weekinsecurity.com, are running this survey to explore the state of legal demands and criminal threats in cybersecurity.
Dissent Doe at DataBreaches.net, and yours truly at this.weekinsecurity.com, are running this survey to explore the state of legal demands and criminal threats in cybersecurity.
Survey about legal and criminal threats experienced by journalists and security researchers
Researchers who try to responsibly disclose leaks, vulnerabilities, and other security breaches or mishaps may face legal threats or lawsuits. Similarly, journalists may find themselves threatened wit...
forms.gle
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Are you a security researcher or journalist? We want to hear from you — please take this survey!
Dissent Doe at DataBreaches.net, and yours truly at this.weekinsecurity.com, are running this survey to explore the state of legal demands and criminal threats in cybersecurity.
Dissent Doe at DataBreaches.net, and yours truly at this.weekinsecurity.com, are running this survey to explore the state of legal demands and criminal threats in cybersecurity.
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Maybe this will make it clearer:
We went from horse and buggy to interplanetary rockets with less money, time, and human labour than we did as an industry moving from spreadsheets in a TUI to spreadsheets in a GUI
That should be fucking shameful as an industry. wtf is going on??
We went from horse and buggy to interplanetary rockets with less money, time, and human labour than we did as an industry moving from spreadsheets in a TUI to spreadsheets in a GUI
That should be fucking shameful as an industry. wtf is going on??
December 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Maybe this will make it clearer:
We went from horse and buggy to interplanetary rockets with less money, time, and human labour than we did as an industry moving from spreadsheets in a TUI to spreadsheets in a GUI
That should be fucking shameful as an industry. wtf is going on??
We went from horse and buggy to interplanetary rockets with less money, time, and human labour than we did as an industry moving from spreadsheets in a TUI to spreadsheets in a GUI
That should be fucking shameful as an industry. wtf is going on??
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Truly. I feel literal emotional damage and psychological trauma and physical pain thinking about all of the duplication and fucking nonsense going on in programming. You’re telling me that we’ve spent 50+ years, written billions of lines of code, and solved the same problems millions of times?!
December 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Truly. I feel literal emotional damage and psychological trauma and physical pain thinking about all of the duplication and fucking nonsense going on in programming. You’re telling me that we’ve spent 50+ years, written billions of lines of code, and solved the same problems millions of times?!
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I always wonder about queerness in these contexts. Can report from my own life that sexual harassment*in the context of the corrective violence directed at queer women, hits hard. And I suspect can be categorically different than cis straight women's experiences, while there's much solidarity ofc.
People are willing to forgo a significant portion of their earnings—between 12-36% of their wages—to avoid hostile work environments.
Women exhibit a stronger aversion to exclusionary workplaces and environments with sexual harassment.
Women exhibit a stronger aversion to exclusionary workplaces and environments with sexual harassment.
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I always wonder about queerness in these contexts. Can report from my own life that sexual harassment*in the context of the corrective violence directed at queer women, hits hard. And I suspect can be categorically different than cis straight women's experiences, while there's much solidarity ofc.
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Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
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I know money is tight for all (at least many) of us, but if you’ve got $5 or $10 to spare after bills this month, Jules could really use some help to buy food and medication and get to doctor appointments while she battles cancer and is looking for work, as AI has decimated her industry in Australia
Donate to Help me get the roughest patch & fight AI hiring, organized by J H
2024 broke me. 2025 hasn’t been much better.
I spent the year in me… J H needs your support for Help me get the roughest patch & fight AI hiring
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December 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I know money is tight for all (at least many) of us, but if you’ve got $5 or $10 to spare after bills this month, Jules could really use some help to buy food and medication and get to doctor appointments while she battles cancer and is looking for work, as AI has decimated her industry in Australia
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I read this recently and it is stunning. Cathartic, as well. It’s about a quiet rebellion against AI slop and the messy healing of humanity; there’s more, but I won’t spoil it
sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...
sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
sightlessscribbles.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I read this recently and it is stunning. Cathartic, as well. It’s about a quiet rebellion against AI slop and the messy healing of humanity; there’s more, but I won’t spoil it
sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...
sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...
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Overnight, past 2 a.m., the Alberta United Conservative Party passed Bill 9, a bill to **strip away the right to life of trans youth** in order to impose on them a gender-affirming care ban.
We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.
We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Overnight, past 2 a.m., the Alberta United Conservative Party passed Bill 9, a bill to **strip away the right to life of trans youth** in order to impose on them a gender-affirming care ban.
We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.
We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.
This is the most human piece I've read in a long time. Highly recommend taking a break and sitting with it for a while.
sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...
sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
sightlessscribbles.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is the most human piece I've read in a long time. Highly recommend taking a break and sitting with it for a while.
sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...
sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...