Xavier Bertels
@xavez.com
Plays Startup CPO. Posts about tech, design and product management. 🖖
Listen with empathy. Decide with urgency. Execute with intelligence.
Listen with empathy. Decide with urgency. Execute with intelligence.
On Liquid Glass, there's really only one relevant remark:
“It’s a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I’m aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.”
“It’s a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I’m aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.”
September 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
On Liquid Glass, there's really only one relevant remark:
“It’s a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I’m aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.”
“It’s a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I’m aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.”
POScast: podcast where we interview a billionaire who speaks about people as "heads" to lay off.
September 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
POScast: podcast where we interview a billionaire who speaks about people as "heads" to lay off.
Ahhhh MobLand. 10/10. So good. From soundtrack to script.
September 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Ahhhh MobLand. 10/10. So good. From soundtrack to script.
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The scary thing about the data breach of the Tea app where people’s government IDs were leaked is that multiple governments are passing laws requiring people to provide their ID to random apps and websites to prove they’re 18+.
We are going to see some incredibly embarrassing leaks in the future.
We are going to see some incredibly embarrassing leaks in the future.
Women's dating safety app Tea hit by data breach impacting thousands of photos
Tea, a dating safety app which allows women to anonymously give men red or green "flags," says it had more than 70,000 photos stolen in a data breach.
www.usatoday.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The scary thing about the data breach of the Tea app where people’s government IDs were leaked is that multiple governments are passing laws requiring people to provide their ID to random apps and websites to prove they’re 18+.
We are going to see some incredibly embarrassing leaks in the future.
We are going to see some incredibly embarrassing leaks in the future.
“Het lukt ons niet om vandaag je pakket te bezorgen“
De Gentse Feesten zijn officieel begonnen!
De Gentse Feesten zijn officieel begonnen!
July 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“Het lukt ons niet om vandaag je pakket te bezorgen“
De Gentse Feesten zijn officieel begonnen!
De Gentse Feesten zijn officieel begonnen!
Reposted by Xavier Bertels
June 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Bieke Depoorter’s new photography book captures the practice of stargazing. Her true subjects are not planets, but people, Tyler Austin Harper writes:
Looking Up
None
bit.ly
June 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Bieke Depoorter’s new photography book captures the practice of stargazing. Her true subjects are not planets, but people, Tyler Austin Harper writes:
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“Virtually everything I’ve watched recently has been some variation of rich people pottering around in ‘aspirational’ compounds,” @sophiegilbert.bsky.social writes. These depictions of extreme wealth on the small screen have become, well, quite boring. https://theatln.tc/r1iX7sej
June 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“Virtually everything I’ve watched recently has been some variation of rich people pottering around in ‘aspirational’ compounds,” @sophiegilbert.bsky.social writes. These depictions of extreme wealth on the small screen have become, well, quite boring. https://theatln.tc/r1iX7sej
Apple just announced… Windows Aero?
June 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Apple just announced… Windows Aero?
Here’s something to make you feel old: the movie Her is 12 years old.
June 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Here’s something to make you feel old: the movie Her is 12 years old.
Next week, we’ll be able to tell the level of how fucked Apple really is by them either not mentioning Genmoji and Image Playground at all, or doubling down on it.
My guess is it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
My guess is it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
June 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Next week, we’ll be able to tell the level of how fucked Apple really is by them either not mentioning Genmoji and Image Playground at all, or doubling down on it.
My guess is it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
My guess is it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
Has anyone done the numbers on the aggregate energy usage of microwaves?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
June 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Has anyone done the numbers on the aggregate energy usage of microwaves?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
Ooit schrijft iemand een business boek over hoe het imperium van Lotus begon bij de vrouw die speculoospasta uitvond op TV.
May 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Ooit schrijft iemand een business boek over hoe het imperium van Lotus begon bij de vrouw die speculoospasta uitvond op TV.
China seems like one big case that proves Clayton Christensen's disrupting innovation is still alive and kicking.
May 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
China seems like one big case that proves Clayton Christensen's disrupting innovation is still alive and kicking.
Excellent track but a bit hard to find 😅
May 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Excellent track but a bit hard to find 😅
Less than 1 week after its release, Perplexity has completely replaced Siri for me (through the action button on my iPhone)
That's how low the bar was, Apple.
That's how low the bar was, Apple.
May 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Less than 1 week after its release, Perplexity has completely replaced Siri for me (through the action button on my iPhone)
That's how low the bar was, Apple.
That's how low the bar was, Apple.
This is some excellent data design www.debtinperspective.com
Understanding the Cuts | US Debt in Perspective
An interactive exploration of the US national debt, scaled down to comprehensible numbers to help understand the true scale of government finances.
www.debtinperspective.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is some excellent data design www.debtinperspective.com
One of those texts you'd wish weren't someone's playbook: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
Ur-Fascism
Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995
theanarchistlibrary.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
One of those texts you'd wish weren't someone's playbook: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
When your demo actually works → www.youtube.com/shorts/cMTzq...
Perplexity Voice Assistant for iOS #ai #smartphone
YouTube video by Perplexity
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
When your demo actually works → www.youtube.com/shorts/cMTzq...
Verbs that should now be scrapped from English dictionaries: trump, deal.
April 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Verbs that should now be scrapped from English dictionaries: trump, deal.
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I don’t mean to be a broken record but AI development could stop at the o3/Gemini 2.5 level and we would have a decade of major changes across entire professions & industries (medicine, law, education, coding…) as we figure out how to actually use it & adapt our systems.
AI disruption is baked in.
AI disruption is baked in.
April 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I don’t mean to be a broken record but AI development could stop at the o3/Gemini 2.5 level and we would have a decade of major changes across entire professions & industries (medicine, law, education, coding…) as we figure out how to actually use it & adapt our systems.
AI disruption is baked in.
AI disruption is baked in.