Bob Orchard
@bob.orchard.fyi
Product Management @ StrataPT 🦈
In the past I’ve designed, coded, and tinkered. Be human. Be all there. (he/him) 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
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In the past I’ve designed, coded, and tinkered. Be human. Be all there. (he/him) 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
#productmanagement
Dear @netflix.com - please fix the horizontal scrolling on your new UI for Apple TV.
I like the top menu swiped from Apple, but it feels SO wrong to force the previews to play as I scroll while eating up so much screen real estate.
This is a huge step backwards in me finding what to watch.
I like the top menu swiped from Apple, but it feels SO wrong to force the previews to play as I scroll while eating up so much screen real estate.
This is a huge step backwards in me finding what to watch.
August 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Dear @netflix.com - please fix the horizontal scrolling on your new UI for Apple TV.
I like the top menu swiped from Apple, but it feels SO wrong to force the previews to play as I scroll while eating up so much screen real estate.
This is a huge step backwards in me finding what to watch.
I like the top menu swiped from Apple, but it feels SO wrong to force the previews to play as I scroll while eating up so much screen real estate.
This is a huge step backwards in me finding what to watch.
This is an excellent article - it go read it.
I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."
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Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan
The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.
www.bloomberg.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is an excellent article - it go read it.
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A poem cannot stop a bullet.
A novel can't defuse a bomb.
But we are not helpless.
We can sing the truth and name the liars.
- Salman Rushdie
A novel can't defuse a bomb.
But we are not helpless.
We can sing the truth and name the liars.
- Salman Rushdie
March 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A poem cannot stop a bullet.
A novel can't defuse a bomb.
But we are not helpless.
We can sing the truth and name the liars.
- Salman Rushdie
A novel can't defuse a bomb.
But we are not helpless.
We can sing the truth and name the liars.
- Salman Rushdie
Reposted by Bob Orchard
Needed to save this as an explainer for why I personally don't trust the clock app
What everyone is missing about social media's importance for political campaigns:
Social media isn't merely a tool to amplify the reach of ideas; it's a persuasion and messaging laboratory to hone them.
The average user's experience on social apps is very different from Elon and Zuckerberg's...
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Social media isn't merely a tool to amplify the reach of ideas; it's a persuasion and messaging laboratory to hone them.
The average user's experience on social apps is very different from Elon and Zuckerberg's...
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January 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Needed to save this as an explainer for why I personally don't trust the clock app
My soul cries out for a small campfire in the forest with close friends away from it all.
January 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
My soul cries out for a small campfire in the forest with close friends away from it all.
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Right. Here's your to-do list for the next two months to put you in the best possible position to survive what's coming:
1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.
1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.
November 6, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Right. Here's your to-do list for the next two months to put you in the best possible position to survive what's coming:
1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.
1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.