Being on LinkedIn lately is like

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Honeycomb Credit's "processing fees" for bank payments are *wild* -- they're paying a flat fee for bank payments, and it is not $50. Or $5. This just... an insane amount of extra fee they're extracting here.

And Honeycomb is already charging fees on the other parts of this transaction --

If you're about to post a "must-read" list or "thought leaders" or whatever, and they're 100% famous white dudes, maybe spare a second to think of whether they need the boost, and don't post that list? And then, hey, take another second to consider diversifying your inputs?

LinkedIn math so far: they showed my abhorrently bait-y post:post that linked out to my long and thoughtful blog post at a ~10:1 ratio.

In you ever wondered why LinkedIn is the way it is 😛

Posted that blog to LinkedIn, saw it get immediately buried, as nearly all "contains link to external content" suffers from, and out of frustration, I posted this linked-in style update. I feel gross.

Blog posts in the same AI vein I'm working on
- why writing these make me feel bad (likely to be more than one)
- why 80% right delivered confidently is so dangerous
- how the "you gotta cram it down their throat" top-down adoption approach is so wrong, and concerning

Blog, in which I try using AI tools for high-level product strategy and emerge hoping all my competitors adopt them.

www.zumsteg.net/2025/07/08/i...

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Increasingly deranged product description for bulk, cheap softballs concludes with scaring you and then reminding us of the value of human connection:

NASA's concept Origins Space Telescope will for life on exoplanets using the mid-infrared spectrum: vast distances of space to a resolution of a millionth of a meter, the diameter of a human hair. It could still not detect my interest in receiving fundraising requests from James Carville.

The extent to which LinkedIn buries posts that contain outside links surprises me every time. It's almost not worth doing, which seems counter to being a professional social network where everyone's going to be linking to company stuff/news.

I spend 2,000 words going through all the things in ProdPad's "PM's guide to using AI" and talk about where it can work, where it falls short, and why sometimes you shouldn't use AI tools even if you can. www.zumsteg.net/2025/05/16/c...

Lies Google has told me, a continuing series:

Sick of seeing arguments about the inefficacy of collectively turning off the money faucet to someone who has personally funded global efforts to strip away the already-precarious rights and safety of trans folks. If you want to live that life, do it away from me and stop wasting time equivocating.

Testing using AI tools to summarize customer feedback. tldr; potentially useful, you still have to do the reading, because there's still a lot they're missing. Like poison!

www.zumsteg.net/2025/04/11/c...

#productmanagement #ai #chatgpt #claude #grok #gemni

I'm blogging trying AI tools for different Product Management work where I've seen it suggested as a good case. First: "go lookup something about each of these IDs" did not go well at allllllllll.

www.zumsteg.net/2025/04/10/c...

Enjoy! Suggest other things! Harvest my frustration!

Has anyone, ever, gotten an email with a subject line like this and thought "oh thank God, finally, what a joy and relief, can't wait to see this"

Signed a bunch of docs today, one a "here are my aliases/AKA." Intended for "I'm Steve sometimes Stephen" but in practice is "list of name misspellings anyone managed to attach to my credit, ever" ...and you're expected to say "yes my identity includes the time someone called me "Darren Rumstein"

Cold email tactic o' the day: "it's not that I want to bug you, it's my boss" trying to capitalize on your sympathy for others.

A hopefully useful lens as you consider your stakeholder management: www.zumsteg.net/2024/07/01/s...

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