Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
Raised gifted; non-practicing.
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🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
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🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Sure, LLMs are mostly good for spouting remixed platitudes scraped from LinkedIn in the same way that gum is scraped from a shoe.
But for some roles, that's an asset rather than a liability.
But for some roles, that's an asset rather than a liability.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Sure, LLMs are mostly good for spouting remixed platitudes scraped from LinkedIn in the same way that gum is scraped from a shoe.
But for some roles, that's an asset rather than a liability.
But for some roles, that's an asset rather than a liability.
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I do not have the skill set to do this but one thing my parents did ingrain in me is that the purpose of these groups’ door knocking is not actually to convert- the leaders know that doesn’t work. It’s to teach members that they will be ridiculed, ostracised, despised outside the cult
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I do not have the skill set to do this but one thing my parents did ingrain in me is that the purpose of these groups’ door knocking is not actually to convert- the leaders know that doesn’t work. It’s to teach members that they will be ridiculed, ostracised, despised outside the cult
🧝♀️Sure, there's a 99% chance this folder is a mimic. But there is a 1% chance that it contains a rare file!
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December 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🧝♀️Sure, there's a 99% chance this folder is a mimic. But there is a 1% chance that it contains a rare file!
via ko-fi.com/s/3683ca94cb
via ko-fi.com/s/3683ca94cb
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Process creates friction, so we got rid of process. But that friction was necessary for holding workslop at bay.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where LLMs will always beat people.
Choose friction.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where LLMs will always beat people.
Choose friction.
The myth of "no design process"
Process can add friction, but trying to get rid of friction by getting rid of process dooms design to irrelevance.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Process creates friction, so we got rid of process. But that friction was necessary for holding workslop at bay.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where LLMs will always beat people.
Choose friction.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where LLMs will always beat people.
Choose friction.
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In my parents' generation this gesture meant (with the hand held at waist level): "this joke already had a beard this long 🫴 when I was only this tall 🫳"
One of the things we've enjoyed the most about the six-seven phenomenon is the way it comes with a gesture, which we've also seen represented in emoji form as:
🫴 six-seven 🫳
🫴 six-seven 🫳
“6-7” belongs in the dictionary, actually
In defense of @dictionarycom.bsky.social's Word of the Year
Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/67/
Substack: linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/p/67
In defense of @dictionarycom.bsky.social's Word of the Year
Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/67/
Substack: linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/p/67
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
In my parents' generation this gesture meant (with the hand held at waist level): "this joke already had a beard this long 🫴 when I was only this tall 🫳"
In my parents' generation this gesture meant (with the hand held at waist level): "this joke already had a beard this long 🫴 when I was only this tall 🫳"
One of the things we've enjoyed the most about the six-seven phenomenon is the way it comes with a gesture, which we've also seen represented in emoji form as:
🫴 six-seven 🫳
🫴 six-seven 🫳
“6-7” belongs in the dictionary, actually
In defense of @dictionarycom.bsky.social's Word of the Year
Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/67/
Substack: linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/p/67
In defense of @dictionarycom.bsky.social's Word of the Year
Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/67/
Substack: linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/p/67
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
In my parents' generation this gesture meant (with the hand held at waist level): "this joke already had a beard this long 🫴 when I was only this tall 🫳"
Invited to the mafia don's home to kiss the ring. Is it bad manners to bring a sanitizing wipe
December 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Invited to the mafia don's home to kiss the ring. Is it bad manners to bring a sanitizing wipe
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As long as the grievance has no objective correlative, and the "deliverance" from the imaginary grievance is equally unreal, they can just keep re-enacting it forever.
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
As long as the grievance has no objective correlative, and the "deliverance" from the imaginary grievance is equally unreal, they can just keep re-enacting it forever.
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If you're not familiar with them, they're very cool!
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
Visually dazzling set of hand-drawn charts created by Du Bois, condensing an enormous amount of data on African-American life into aesthetically daring and easily digestible visualisations.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you're not familiar with them, they're very cool!
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The spellbooks of the mightiest wizards are never written on paper
I've told this story before, but when my paternal grandmother passed, her daughters fought for DAYS over who would get her precious ever-guarded recipe book, finally agreed they would share it, opened it to copy down the recipes and found it had only 1 entry which said "Book I pretend has recipes"
Tell me something funny about someone important to you who’s passed on. Anecdote, factoid, excellent one-liner—dealer’s choice.
June 4, 2024 at 9:55 PM
The spellbooks of the mightiest wizards are never written on paper
When you say "we don't need user research, I already know what users want" this is what you look like
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
When you say "we don't need user research, I already know what users want" this is what you look like
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
The LLM pie is shrinking, and AI guys are now turning on the other AI guys to defend their slice.
Because most LLM products have no moat (they're renting their model) the foundation model owners can just copy your use case and keep the money.
Hence the protest: "my prompts are better than yours!"
Because most LLM products have no moat (they're renting their model) the foundation model owners can just copy your use case and keep the money.
Hence the protest: "my prompts are better than yours!"
#anthropic #claude #ai #moderator | Josh Davey | 28 comments
Anthropic published a major study led by their internal AI interviewer.
They frame it as a new way to run qualitative research at scale. But the method contains a flaw that calls the study’s conclus...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The LLM pie is shrinking, and AI guys are now turning on the other AI guys to defend their slice.
Because most LLM products have no moat (they're renting their model) the foundation model owners can just copy your use case and keep the money.
Hence the protest: "my prompts are better than yours!"
Because most LLM products have no moat (they're renting their model) the foundation model owners can just copy your use case and keep the money.
Hence the protest: "my prompts are better than yours!"
*cocks gun* this trenchcoat ain't big enough for the three of us
December 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
*cocks gun* this trenchcoat ain't big enough for the three of us
Incredible things are happening
ELDEN ZOHRAN - The Zohran Mamdani Elden Ring Mod (with Hasan, Cuomo, AOC, Bernie)
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December 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Incredible things are happening
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This is like going to Chuck E. Cheese and asking if you can get an autograph from the band
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This is like going to Chuck E. Cheese and asking if you can get an autograph from the band
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balance of power, game over screen, msx (1988) mobygames.com/game/259/bal...
September 4, 2023 at 12:45 AM
balance of power, game over screen, msx (1988) mobygames.com/game/259/bal...
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If they aren’t a registered charity and they aren’t registered with the Fundraising Regulator (example logo below), it’s probably one of these scammy orgs where the ‘profit’ is a tiny fraction of the money you handed over and some bastard gets rich on your good intentions. Give to a real charity.
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If they aren’t a registered charity and they aren’t registered with the Fundraising Regulator (example logo below), it’s probably one of these scammy orgs where the ‘profit’ is a tiny fraction of the money you handed over and some bastard gets rich on your good intentions. Give to a real charity.
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S: Are you registered with the Fundraising Regulator?
Him: Yes.
S: Let’s see the number… This isn’t the fundraising regulator. This is your business number.
Him: It’s a business that supports charity with our profits.
S: “Profits.”
Him: Yes.
S: Let’s see the number… This isn’t the fundraising regulator. This is your business number.
Him: It’s a business that supports charity with our profits.
S: “Profits.”
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
S: Are you registered with the Fundraising Regulator?
Him: Yes.
S: Let’s see the number… This isn’t the fundraising regulator. This is your business number.
Him: It’s a business that supports charity with our profits.
S: “Profits.”
Him: Yes.
S: Let’s see the number… This isn’t the fundraising regulator. This is your business number.
Him: It’s a business that supports charity with our profits.
S: “Profits.”
Slept in my Streetlight Manifesto t-shirt and woke up Somewhere in the Between
Slept in my Iron Maiden shirt and woke up with a Fear Of The Dark
Slept in my Metallica shirt and now....Nothing Else Matters...
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Slept in my Streetlight Manifesto t-shirt and woke up Somewhere in the Between
There's a thought leader (derogatory) who is the main character of linkedin today for claiming, and I quote, "Most designers won't make it past 35."
And all I can think about is the story of Charles Le Sorcerer.
And all I can think about is the story of Charles Le Sorcerer.
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
There's a thought leader (derogatory) who is the main character of linkedin today for claiming, and I quote, "Most designers won't make it past 35."
And all I can think about is the story of Charles Le Sorcerer.
And all I can think about is the story of Charles Le Sorcerer.