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Matt Anderson

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🌎 Earthling 🤔 Product management leader 📚 Derailed academic librarian 🌐 Broadcasts #prodmgmt, #ux, #fintech, libraries, climate 🐝 Never once stung by a bee https://www.instagram.com/mattandersonut https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattandersonut

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · Jan 5

Time to refresh the accounts you follow by hitting "follow all" on ALL THREE 🦋 starter packs...follow 300+ product managers in 15 seconds

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 18h

Queen of Darts open.substack.com/pub/victoryj... via @longreads.com

Queen of Darts

Two champions navigate the high-pressure Dutch Open darts competition.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 21h

Mr. Yuk 99percentinvisible.org/episode/mr-yuk

Mr. Yuk - 99% Invisible

Some of you may be familiar with a figure called Mr. Yuk, depending on your age and where you grew up, but for rest of you: Mr. Yuk is a neon green circular sticker with a cartoon face on it. His face...

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 23h

The Coloradans Exercising Their Right To Die—and a Doctor Who Helps Them Find Peace 5280.com/medical-aid-... via @cherilucasrowlands.com

The Coloradans Exercising Their Right To Die—and a Doctor Who Helps Them Find Peace

More terminally ill Coloradans than ever are turning to Denver Health’s Medical Aid in Dying clinic. We spent the summer witnessing the quiet decisions and final moments of those who chose when—and ho...

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 1d

The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare www.404media.co/the-discord-... via @404media.co

The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 1d

Ring’s new Search Party feature is on by default; should you opt out? www.theverge.com/news/790928/...

Ring’s new Search Party feature is on by default; should you opt out?

Whose that doggy at the doorbell?

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 1d

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies grist.org/health/valle... via @seywarddarby.bsky.social

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies

What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 1d

Disengagement and the Number One Thing Employees Want from Leadership podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

226. Disengagement and the Number One Thing Employees Want from Leadership

Podcast Episode · The New Manager Podcast · 08/18/2025 · 15m

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 1d

“Jason Lives” in Rutledge, Georgia oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/jason... via @longreads.com

“Jason Lives” in Rutledge, Georgia

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 2d

Many users are unaware of AI's full capabilities or how to prompt effectively, creating a "discoverability barrier" that prevents them from fully leveraging AI for complex information-seeking.

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How AI Succeeds (and Fails) to Help People Find Information

AI chat and search lets users describe needs without exact keywords, but many don't know AI's full capabilities or how to prompt effectively.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 2d

Google is starting to launch real-time AI voice search www.theverge.com/news/784685/...

Google is starting to launch real-time AI voice search

Now you can talk out your search with AI.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 2d

The focus for online visibility is rapidly shifting from traditional SEO to Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) or Agent Experience (AX), as AI agents are now the primary "visitors" consuming content.

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SEO Is Tanking. How to Win With AEO / GEO

Deep Dive from Profound's Head of Growth Nick Lafferty

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 2d

California just drew the blueprint for AI safety regulation with SB 53
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California just drew the blueprint for AI safety regulation with SB 53

Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at Encode AI, joined Equity to break down what this new law actually means and why it managed to pass its predecessor SB 1047.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 3d

Fluid forms, vibrant colors: how a subtle refresh of our Microsoft 365 icons signals deeper change medium.com/microsoft-de...

Fluid forms, vibrant colors: how a subtle refresh of our Microsoft 365 icons signals deeper change

By Jon Friedman, CVP of Design and Research for Microsoft 365

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 3d

Hero Images are Dead. These Solutions are Replacing Them. uxplanet.org/hero-images-...

Hero Images are Dead. These Solutions are Replacing Them.

A year ago, I was tasked with giving feedback on a new proposed hero for a widely visited website. I opened up Figma to see what the…

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 3d

AI slop, government stops, and startup uncertainty techcrunch.com/podcast/ai-s...

AI slop, government stops, and startup uncertainty

Equity unpacks the week’s headlines, from how the government shutdown is impacting startups to the messy reality of AI monetization experiments.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 4d

This vile spectacle showed how Trump's hatred threatens us all by @dearlstephens.bsky.social www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

This vile spectacle showed how Trump's hatred threatens us all

We are just a few days removed from the most toxic, anti-American speech ever given by a sitting President of the United States, and I am not letting it go, dammit.And neither should you.While address...

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 4d

Microsoft launches vibe working in Excel and Word

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Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 4d

Contractors to the rescue and dinged for delay softskills.audio/2025/09/22/e...

Episode 479: Contractors to the rescue and dinged for delay

It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers about the non-technical stuff that goes into being a great software dev...

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 4d

Eight lessons from my transition from B2C to B2B Product Management www.mindtheproduct.com/what-makes-a...

Eight lessons from my transition from B2C to B2B Product Management

Discover 8 lessons from my shift from B2C to B2B product management, covering enterprise sales, customer alignment, security, and scalable product strategy.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 5d

How the AI Debate Has Changed in Just a Few Short Years scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/24/g...

Guest Post – How the AI Debate Has Changed in Just a Few Short Years - The Scholarly Kitchen

Tony Alves reflects on the 2025 Peer Review Congress and the rapid evolution of discussions about AI and peer review since 2022.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 6d

By providing clear direction, product strategy enables AI to accelerate progress towards actual objectives, rather than merely increasing speed in disparate directions, thereby amplifying organizational leverage.

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Product Strategy in the AI Era

Speed matters in the AI world, but real progress starts with clarity. Here’s how a solid product strategy guides you when things get noisy.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing launches AI tool for building mini apps using prompts techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/n...

Nothing launches AI tool for building mini apps using prompts | TechCrunch

Nothing on Monday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create apps with simple text prompts and deploy them to a platform of sorts known as Essential Apps.

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 6d

Product leaders are losing nearly 40% of their week to managing stakeholders rather than focusing on product development, indicating that stakeholder misalignment is the primary obstacle to product momentum.

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Is stakeholder chaos killing your product? New survey reveals the silent tax on product leaders

Product leaders are losing nearly 40% of their week to stakeholder chaos. A new survey of 100 CPOs and VPs of Product reveals the hidden tax of misalignment: wasted hours, derailed launches, and erode...

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Matt Anderson @mattandersonut.bsky.social · 6d

Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction

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Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch

An analysis of mobile apps offering vibe-coding tools shows few have found traction.

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 7d

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

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