Matt Anderson
@mattandersonut.bsky.social
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🤔 Product management leader
📚 Derailed academic librarian
🌐 Broadcasts #prodmgmt, #ux, #fintech, libraries, climate
🐝 Never once stung by a bee
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🤔 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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Saving the Venus Flytrap: How One Woman Rallied a Town Around Its Weirdest Attraction gardenandgun.com/feature/venu... via @longreads.com
Saving the Venus Flytrap: How One Woman Rallied a Town Around Its Weirdest Attraction
Despite their outsize hold on popular imagination, Venus flytraps are native to a tiny corner of the globe: the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas. As development threatens, one town—spurred on by one tir...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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A Hippocratic Oath for tech… with teeth uxdesign.cc/a-hippocrati...
A Hippocratic Oath for tech… with teeth
From Frankenstein’s dilemma to the Greek agora, history offers blueprints for building tech industry legitimacy.
uxdesign.cc
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A Hippocratic Oath for tech… with teeth uxdesign.cc/a-hippocrati...
Optimizing for long-term value, such as conversions and user retention, yields more durable business outcomes and loyalty compared to solely focusing on short-term metrics like clicks, which can mislead.
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What every product manager should know about balancing revenue and user experience
Discover how product managers can balance monetization with user trust in search ads
www.mindtheproduct.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Optimizing for long-term value, such as conversions and user retention, yields more durable business outcomes and loyalty compared to solely focusing on short-term metrics like clicks, which can mislead.
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Is Product Operations a system or a function? www.talkingroadmaps.com/episodes/is-...
Is Product Operations a system or a function? | Christine Itwaru — Talking Roadmaps
In Episode 15 of Talking Roadmaps, Justin Woods sits down with Christine Itwaru to explore whether Product Operations should be seen as a system or a function. Christine shares best practices like tre...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Is Product Operations a system or a function? www.talkingroadmaps.com/episodes/is-...
System 0: Humanity’s Next Superpower by @paulisthrivving.xyz medium.com/thrivve-part...
System 0: Humanity’s Next Superpower
It doesn’t replace us, it reveals us. The future of intelligence is human + machine, thinking together at the speed of context…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
System 0: Humanity’s Next Superpower by @paulisthrivving.xyz medium.com/thrivve-part...
Product leaders must consider three fundamental elements before incorporating AI into products: operational costs, staffing costs, and business risks, as executive pressure often overlooks these critical impacts.
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Before you add AI, consider these three fundamentals
Not every product needs AI. Use this guide to assess operational costs, scarce talent, and organisational risk, so you can protect profit and make a clear go/no-go.
www.mindtheproduct.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Product leaders must consider three fundamental elements before incorporating AI into products: operational costs, staffing costs, and business risks, as executive pressure often overlooks these critical impacts.
www.mindtheproduct.com/how-to-adopt...
www.mindtheproduct.com/how-to-adopt...
Success in GTM for solo PMs requires strategic boundaries, knowing what tasks to own versus what to push back on, creating scrappy GTM documentation, and identifying essential collaborators (sales, marketing, customer success) early on.
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How solo Product managers can own go-to-market strategy in lean teams
Many early-stage startups lack a dedicated product marketing manager, leaving product managers to own go-to-market strategy alone. This guide breaks down practical GTM frameworks, launch planning tact...
www.mindtheproduct.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Success in GTM for solo PMs requires strategic boundaries, knowing what tasks to own versus what to push back on, creating scrappy GTM documentation, and identifying essential collaborators (sales, marketing, customer success) early on.
www.mindtheproduct.com/how-solo-pro...
www.mindtheproduct.com/how-solo-pro...
What I Saw at the Movies www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... via @longreads.com
Leo Robson · Diary: What I Saw at the Movies
Jean Epstein compared going to a movie to entering a state of hypnosis, an aesthetic experience that ‘modifies the...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
What I Saw at the Movies www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... via @longreads.com
Second and Long: Why did James Whitehead—poet, fiction writer, and onetime college football player—fail to complete a successor to his celebrated first novel? theamericanscholar.org/second-and-l... via @longreads.com
Second and Long - The American Scholar
Why did James Whitehead—poet, fiction writer, and onetime college football player—fail to complete a successor to his celebrated first novel?
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November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Second and Long: Why did James Whitehead—poet, fiction writer, and onetime college football player—fail to complete a successor to his celebrated first novel? theamericanscholar.org/second-and-l... via @longreads.com
The thing that wouldn’t die: why Gothic endures in visual culture www.itsnicethat.com/features/got...
The thing that wouldn’t die: why Gothic endures in visual culture
Gothic has moved from subcultural spaces into mainstream design practice. What’s causing its resurrection? From album covers and film titles to product branding, book illustrations, and more, we dig i...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The thing that wouldn’t die: why Gothic endures in visual culture www.itsnicethat.com/features/got...
8 Ways Burnout is Secretly Destroying Your Financial Future jboitnott.medium.com/8-ways-burno...
8 Ways Burnout is Secretly Destroying Your Financial Future
Burnout doesn’t just wreck your mental health. It takes apart your financial future in many predictable patterns. Brain fog and exhaustion…
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November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
8 Ways Burnout is Secretly Destroying Your Financial Future jboitnott.medium.com/8-ways-burno...
The emerging landscape requires designers to be highly self-directed, leveraging peer networks and AI-assisted projects, but this "audacity tax" disproportionately affects those without financial or social capital, creating uneven pathways into the field.
www.itsnicethat.com/features/wel...
www.itsnicethat.com/features/wel...
Welcome to the entry-level void: what happens when junior design jobs disappear?
Entry-level jobs are disappearing. In their place: unpaid gigs, cold DMs and self-starters scrambling for a foothold. The ladder’s gone – what’s replacing it, and who’s being left behind?
www.itsnicethat.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The emerging landscape requires designers to be highly self-directed, leveraging peer networks and AI-assisted projects, but this "audacity tax" disproportionately affects those without financial or social capital, creating uneven pathways into the field.
www.itsnicethat.com/features/wel...
www.itsnicethat.com/features/wel...
How AI writing tools fail to speak to writers uxdesign.cc/how-ai-writi...
How AI writing tools fail to speak to writers
Seven design insights from taking Grammarly ads (too) seriously
uxdesign.cc
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
How AI writing tools fail to speak to writers uxdesign.cc/how-ai-writi...
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the next evolution of SEO, requiring a shift in mindset from just ranking for blue links to being understood and referenced by AI systems, while still maintaining SEO fundamentals.
www.growthunhinged.com/p/traffic-is...
www.growthunhinged.com/p/traffic-is...
Traffic is no longer a reliable growth metric
How Webflow is adapting to AI search, which converts 6x higher than Google
www.growthunhinged.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the next evolution of SEO, requiring a shift in mindset from just ranking for blue links to being understood and referenced by AI systems, while still maintaining SEO fundamentals.
www.growthunhinged.com/p/traffic-is...
www.growthunhinged.com/p/traffic-is...
Older Tech In The Browser Stack www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/11/olde...
Older Tech In The Browser Stack — Smashing Magazine
There are many existing web features and technologies in the wild that you may never touch directly in your day-to-day work. Perhaps you’re fairly new to web development and are simply unaware of them...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Older Tech In The Browser Stack www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/11/olde...
When AI Gives the Wrong Answer: Optimizing Customer Experience
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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Product Manager’s Paradox: Ownership Without Authority
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From @sjohnson717.bsky.social:
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The Product Manager’s Paradox: Ownership Without Authority
Authority demands compliance. Clarity earns cooperation.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Product Manager’s Paradox: Ownership Without Authority
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From @sjohnson717.bsky.social:
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The Kid Is All Right: In Defense of Picky Eating www.seriouseats.com/the-kid-is-a... via @kristastevens.bsky.social
The Kid Is All Right: In Defense of Picky Eating
On learning to accept your child's discriminating tastes, even when it hurts.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Figma is actively enhancing its accessibility with features like an enhanced contrast mode and improved keyboard navigation, distinguishing it from many other design tools.
uxdesign.cc/is-figma-in-...
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Is Figma in its accessibility era?
Figma’s inclusive design updates
uxdesign.cc
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Figma is actively enhancing its accessibility with features like an enhanced contrast mode and improved keyboard navigation, distinguishing it from many other design tools.
uxdesign.cc/is-figma-in-...
uxdesign.cc/is-figma-in-...
Intro to Large Language Models www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkB...
[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
YouTube video by Andrej Karpathy
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November 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Intro to Large Language Models www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkB...
Effective communication with executives requires mastering storytelling, structuring updates with a "Context → Conflict → Resolution → Evidence" arc to influence decisions both emotionally and logically.
www.mindtheproduct.com/winning-the-...
www.mindtheproduct.com/winning-the-...
Winning the executive handshake: how product managers align vision with the C-suite
AI product leader Sagar Nikam shared with Mind the Product his top learnings to ensure executive alignment on product strategies, with practical advice for a variety of use cases.
www.mindtheproduct.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Effective communication with executives requires mastering storytelling, structuring updates with a "Context → Conflict → Resolution → Evidence" arc to influence decisions both emotionally and logically.
www.mindtheproduct.com/winning-the-...
www.mindtheproduct.com/winning-the-...
Trust in traditional search engines, built over years of reliable and efficient interactions, creates a high expectation for conversational AI; when not met, users often feel responsible for the AI's failures, underscoring the need for reliable and effortless design.
uxdesign.cc/the-novelty-...
uxdesign.cc/the-novelty-...
The novelty and acceptance of Conversational AI
Exploring psychological factors of Conversational Design, like trust and social influence, that can impact user adoption beyond initial…
uxdesign.cc
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Trust in traditional search engines, built over years of reliable and efficient interactions, creates a high expectation for conversational AI; when not met, users often feel responsible for the AI's failures, underscoring the need for reliable and effortless design.
uxdesign.cc/the-novelty-...
uxdesign.cc/the-novelty-...
Agentic AI Trends for 2026 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Agentic AI Trends for 2026
Podcast Episode · Disambiguation · 10/29/2025 · 27m
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November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Agentic AI Trends for 2026 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Designing "agentic loops" is a crucial new skill for effectively utilizing coding agents (like Anthropic's Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex CLI), which operate by running tools in a loop to achieve a goal, often through brute-force iteration.
simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/...
Designing agentic loops
Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …
simonwillison.net
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Designing "agentic loops" is a crucial new skill for effectively utilizing coding agents (like Anthropic's Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex CLI), which operate by running tools in a loop to achieve a goal, often through brute-force iteration.
simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/...