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Jedrzej Kaminski
@jj.insightful.li
Product manager from Berlin.
Psychology, Sustainability and Tech 🧠🌳🤖
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My money is in good hands.
May 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"Every culture has its own logic, its own beliefs, its own stresses. Once one buys into its assumptions, one becomes a prisoner to the logic. For some people, that means a march toward its more tragic conclusions."

Great essay about culture-bound syndromes, focusing mainly on sly phallus poachers.
A Mind Dismembered, by Frank Bures
In search of the magical penis thieves
harpers.org
May 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Among many improvements to the Oblivion's gameplay in the remastered version, I'm really digging the "make frequent pauses, mind your screen time" feature.

Every 1.5h, the game mindfully crashes, giving you some needed time to touch the grass.
April 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Ever thought of using AI as a participant during a Design Sprint? Well, what about making the whole Sprint silicon-based?

For the lols, I've tried to run a Design Sprint just with AI participants, solving an imaginary problem for Vinted.

Please, meet the 🤖-team:
I facilitated a Design Sprint with AIs as the only participants. I want my intuition back.
I facilitated a Design Sprint with AIs as the only participants. They had moments of insight (e.g., during Lightning Demos) but also tended to generalize, suggest blockchain, and crash.
insightful.li
February 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Close enough, I guess.
February 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Cyber Security Division of Homeland Security meets "Move fast and break things".
Elon Musk’s DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it
Such security, much open.
www.theverge.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
@oneknightinproduct.com started his presentation about 2025 product predictions with a big asterisk...

...then shared interesting insights on challenges to the PM role, including potential undermining of the role, how we can prove its value, and adapting to AI in the workplace.

Really cool stuff!
January 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I've enjoyed reading "Shape Up" by Ryan Singer, and the six-week dev cycles that fuel Basecamp (and many other companies).

A lot of things to love here, clarity of the process, ownership given to the rest of the team, innovative (and resonating deeply) approach to visualising progress...
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
Shape Up will help you break free of “best practices” that aren’t really working, think deeper about the right problems, and start shipping meaningful projects your team can celebrate.
basecamp.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Damn, that's some great storytelling and core values insights at Wave, from Zach Abugov:

"Joyce opened the backpack and dumped a heap of cash onto the table. A powerful odor of fish filled the room. (...) 'Don’t worry,' Ben deadpanned. 'This is a totally legitimate company.'"
Care a lot and try hard
Joyce opened the backpack and dumped a heap of cash onto the table. A powerful odor of fish filled the room. She and Ben looked up at me: wide-eyed, fresh off the plane, first time in Senegal. “Don’t ...
www.wave.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I love that there are shared, core elements of a process echoing in what can be described as "creativity". From user-centric product management, to debugging the code, you need to uncover the problem (1), sharpen your understanding of it (2), then resolve in a valuable way (3).
January 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New favourite cosy fishing simulator: Dredge.
Dredge - Official Launch Trailer
YouTube video by IGN
www.youtube.com
January 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Rules aren’t infallible; they’re best guesses (...)"

Good stuff from Joey Cofone and his creativity course.
Joey Cofone — Free Email Course on Creativity
www.joeycofone.com
January 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"New hires are too expensive!"
"Hold my beer, I have an idea!"
December 29, 2024 at 2:04 PM
I must have been pretty good this year 👀
December 29, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Can I lock it again 😭
December 11, 2024 at 12:22 PM
I love the hyperspecific genres Spotify is surfacing in wrapped.

What's more, every year those genres are getting more and more funky. Like a bit relevant label you will never use when describing your favourite music, but it's still fun to know, and, what's important for Spotify, share with folks 😉
December 5, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Good find for collecting feedback with a survey ⬇️

With Typeform amazing product getting a bit expensive for under-the-radar / smol / side project (10 responses/month in free tier, then 21 EUR for 100 responses 🙈), Tally.so came for the rescue!
Free Online Form Builder | Tally
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Tally.so
December 1, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Damn, what a clever, powerful and striking book title. Kudos to the authors!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290...
November 24, 2024 at 12:35 PM
🇩🇪
Lachs = salmon
See = lake
Seelachs = ...pollock

I've been bamboozled by the German language again. Or a marketing campaign, it seems:

"It owes its new name to a clever sales strategy. Around the time of the First World War, real salmon became increasingly rare in German rivers...
November 19, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Got new glasses, and went into a rabbit hole trying to figure out if they make me smarter. All I know for now is that they can make me uglier, and "it all depends".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJBb...

#psychology #glasses #psychscisky
The Glasses Stereotype: Think Twice About Your Frames
YouTube video by Neuronaut
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2024 at 8:53 AM
What happens when someone who's never been able to create mental images suddenly gains that ability?

Meet Patient A: diagnosed with autism & #aphantasia, she discovered a whole new dimension of consciousness through an unexpected source - magic mushrooms.

Amazing preprint available here:
OSF
osf.io
October 31, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Heya Sky People!

I'm a product manager living in Berlin, interested in tech, #psychology, #brain and #sustainability 👏

Would gladly connect with fellow #product, #science, and Earth enthusiasts. I offer relatively relevant content and an occasional #cat photo.

Everyone, please meet Bozon!
October 31, 2024 at 10:33 PM