Simon Ouderkirk
@s12k.bsky.social
Product, Climate Dad, Streaming Media, Philosophy Major - Group PM @ Disney+, prev dbt Labs, WordPress.com - s12k.com
Thinking a lot about the interaction of Confidence and Competence, and I think it has a lot of interesting places to go.
September 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thinking a lot about the interaction of Confidence and Competence, and I think it has a lot of interesting places to go.
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
"The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver."
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"The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver."
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AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
"The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver."
share.google/T3MXl3ReTw7V...
"The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver."
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As 2025 starts to wind down, I'm trying to spend some more time hands-on with some new technology - ideally open source.
I'm going to convert my vibe-coded More Good Work Talk app to being powered by the Kixx framework (by @kixxauth.bsky.social ) & post the journey!
youtu.be/2ePd9pAQDfg?...
I'm going to convert my vibe-coded More Good Work Talk app to being powered by the Kixx framework (by @kixxauth.bsky.social ) & post the journey!
youtu.be/2ePd9pAQDfg?...
Kixx for Kicks Episode 001
YouTube video by Simon Ouderkirk
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September 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
As 2025 starts to wind down, I'm trying to spend some more time hands-on with some new technology - ideally open source.
I'm going to convert my vibe-coded More Good Work Talk app to being powered by the Kixx framework (by @kixxauth.bsky.social ) & post the journey!
youtu.be/2ePd9pAQDfg?...
I'm going to convert my vibe-coded More Good Work Talk app to being powered by the Kixx framework (by @kixxauth.bsky.social ) & post the journey!
youtu.be/2ePd9pAQDfg?...
One of the great unspoken velocity killers in organizations greater than 100 people: Not Doing The Reading.
September 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
One of the great unspoken velocity killers in organizations greater than 100 people: Not Doing The Reading.
Listening to Lenny's podcast, watching the tech industry social streams, awash in my algorithm, I am thinking that the growth of AI isn't necessarily a bad thing for the careers and job market for either Product folks or Engineering folks.
September 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Listening to Lenny's podcast, watching the tech industry social streams, awash in my algorithm, I am thinking that the growth of AI isn't necessarily a bad thing for the careers and job market for either Product folks or Engineering folks.
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I guess I’ve ridden Space Mountain enough for now.
September 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I guess I’ve ridden Space Mountain enough for now.
Just sent out our first ever round of OKR scoring sessions to the team leads in the Distribution Fleet, 14 engineering and operational teams that I have the opportunity of representing on the Product side.
September 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Just sent out our first ever round of OKR scoring sessions to the team leads in the Distribution Fleet, 14 engineering and operational teams that I have the opportunity of representing on the Product side.
"Stuck in the strategic stratosphere," - it can be easy and safe to stay in abstract language, avoid making decisions, and schedule another meeting next week.
I use these Quick Proposals to escape the loop! If you find yourself stuck in the abstract strategy space, maybe it can help you, too!
I use these Quick Proposals to escape the loop! If you find yourself stuck in the abstract strategy space, maybe it can help you, too!
Product Toolkit: Quick Proposal
(if you're just looking for a link to the QP template, here it is!) This post is the first in what I hope will be a recurring series where I share some of the tools that I use, and work with my team t...
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May 31, 2024 at 11:24 AM
"Stuck in the strategic stratosphere," - it can be easy and safe to stay in abstract language, avoid making decisions, and schedule another meeting next week.
I use these Quick Proposals to escape the loop! If you find yourself stuck in the abstract strategy space, maybe it can help you, too!
I use these Quick Proposals to escape the loop! If you find yourself stuck in the abstract strategy space, maybe it can help you, too!
Is there value to the exercise, "If I could give my younger self some advice, what would that advice be?"
Sure, there's some hubris here; I certainly didn't chart the course I'm on, why do I think in retrospect I could have done better?
Anyway, here's a blog post:
Sure, there's some hubris here; I certainly didn't chart the course I'm on, why do I think in retrospect I could have done better?
Anyway, here's a blog post:
Advice to My Younger Self: Always Ask
I've been in the workforce for a while now. During a meetup in London with the data team at Automattic, for my turn at a flash talk I gave a Brief Unabridged Resume, writing out my full professional t...
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May 28, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Is there value to the exercise, "If I could give my younger self some advice, what would that advice be?"
Sure, there's some hubris here; I certainly didn't chart the course I'm on, why do I think in retrospect I could have done better?
Anyway, here's a blog post:
Sure, there's some hubris here; I certainly didn't chart the course I'm on, why do I think in retrospect I could have done better?
Anyway, here's a blog post:
Did you know I had a whole career in specialty coffee before I started working in tech? It's true.
It's wild how parts of your life, lessons and mental models, can echo out across the rest of your life, in unexpected ways.
Here, a lesson from professional tasters in the jungles of Guatemala:
It's wild how parts of your life, lessons and mental models, can echo out across the rest of your life, in unexpected ways.
Here, a lesson from professional tasters in the jungles of Guatemala:
Don’t Taste One Coffee
Did you know I had a whole career in specialty coffee before I became part of the tech industry? It's true - I trained hundreds of baristas, some of them competitors (barista competitions are a thing!...
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April 23, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Did you know I had a whole career in specialty coffee before I started working in tech? It's true.
It's wild how parts of your life, lessons and mental models, can echo out across the rest of your life, in unexpected ways.
Here, a lesson from professional tasters in the jungles of Guatemala:
It's wild how parts of your life, lessons and mental models, can echo out across the rest of your life, in unexpected ways.
Here, a lesson from professional tasters in the jungles of Guatemala:
Haven't done one of these in a while!
Reflecting on a lesson I learned almost twenty years ago as a newly minted community organizer in Binghamton, NY, and how it's still ringing out literally today at a giant tech and entertainment conglomerate.
Reflecting on a lesson I learned almost twenty years ago as a newly minted community organizer in Binghamton, NY, and how it's still ringing out literally today at a giant tech and entertainment conglomerate.
Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing
Immediately following grad school (I studied Philosophy at SUNY Binghamton), I spent a year in the City of Binghamton, working as an AmeriCorps community organizer. It was a tough job. I commuted that...
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September 12, 2023 at 1:34 AM
Haven't done one of these in a while!
Reflecting on a lesson I learned almost twenty years ago as a newly minted community organizer in Binghamton, NY, and how it's still ringing out literally today at a giant tech and entertainment conglomerate.
Reflecting on a lesson I learned almost twenty years ago as a newly minted community organizer in Binghamton, NY, and how it's still ringing out literally today at a giant tech and entertainment conglomerate.