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After 20 years building digital products for others, I decided to build my own thing: a tabletop roleplaying game
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ā Stop copying. Start understanding.
Product maturity isnāt a list of frameworks youāve heard of. Itās how honestly and effectively you use them.
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Feel free to steal this response to email list sellers
Hi āāāāā, Thank you for reaching out. I need to be clear that I cannot and will not participate in buying or acquiring contact lists like the ones youāre offering. Practices like purchasing āverified net-new contactsā raise serious ethical, legal, and compliance concerns. In most jurisdictions (including under GDPR, CASL,
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My Current Approach to AI
Soup du jour
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Boycotting Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook for Half a Year: Lessons in Convenience, Complicity, and Capitalism
The decision Three things led my wife and me to decide to boycott ordering things from Amazon: 1. We were creating far too much waste due to all the packaging. 2. Our local businesses were suffering, quite literally putting out a call for help, and the public was asked to
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Good design isnāt just useful or beautiful. Itās responsible.
And it isn't charity, either.
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Ethical product creation and data management is more important than ever
Data privacy and security demands are growing in ways many of us didnāt see comingāand canāt always predict. Big Data, AI, ML, and other hot fields bring huge potential, but also huge responsibility. As product managers, designers, engineers, and security pros, we should ask: * ā Are we protecting
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ā Stop normalizing buying and selling people's personal info
Iāve had to go to real lengths to keep my personal phone number off the internet. I donāt want it on sales lists. I donāt want it in databases that exist to make me āreachable.ā And yet companies make entire fortunes scraping and selling people's
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Stealing conversations: Consentless outreach is bad business
This is going to rub some (sales) folks the wrong way. Sourcing someoneās personal information and using it to cold call or message them without consent is not just bad etiquette. Itās bad business. Itās also wildly unethical. If you dig through old directories, scrape data from
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Accountability alignment exercises
Get people on the same page
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Meetings that should have been a fire drill
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