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Matt Anderson
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🤔 Product management leader
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🌐 Broadcasts #prodmgmt, #ux, #fintech, libraries, climate
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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
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...
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
When AI Gives the Wrong Answer: Optimizing Customer Experience

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When AI Gives the Wrong Answer: Optimizing Customer Experience
YouTube video by Disambiguation
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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Product Manager’s Paradox: Ownership Without Authority

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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 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.
www.seriouseats.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The state of AI in 2025

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www.mckinsey.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 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-...
Is Figma in its accessibility era?
Figma’s inclusive design updates
uxdesign.cc
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Intro to Large Language Models www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkB...
[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
YouTube video by Andrej Karpathy
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 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-...
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
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-...
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
Agentic AI Trends for 2026 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Agentic AI Trends for 2026
Podcast Episode · Disambiguation · 10/29/2025 · 27m
podcasts.apple.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 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.

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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
America's AI Talent Crunch www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcCJ...
America's AI Talent Crunch
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November 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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January 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
OpenAI is losing significant amounts of money, having spent 150% of its H1 2025 revenue on research and development, which resulted in "underwhelming" products like GPT-5 and the costly-to-operate Sora 2.

www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai
OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked t...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
While both libraries and publishers anticipate AI will enhance content visibility, their primary concerns differ: libraries worry about AI's accuracy and its effect on students' critical thinking, whereas publishers are concerned about IP rights.

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Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI? - The Scholarly Kitchen
If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Andy Breen Hypothesis: Testing for Value Risk is the Most Critical Yet Overlooked Piece of Product Success podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Andy Breen Hypothesis: Testing for Value Risk is the Most Critical Yet Overlooked Piece of Product Success
Podcast Episode · The Product Science Podcast · 04/15/2025 · 40m
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November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Harry Beck revolutionized the London Tube map by abstracting geographical reality into a user-centric diagram, prioritizing the order of stops and interchange points over physical distances, which fundamentally changed how people navigated the city's transport network.

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Harry Beck’s Radical Idea: A Lesson in Disruption
The Tube Map: A Case Study in User-Centred Design
medium.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Successful implementation of national digital voting, exemplified by Estonia, relies heavily on pre-existing, robust digital identity infrastructure and comprehensive security measures, including end-to-end verification and public audits.

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Can technology fix voting?
What impact does digitization of electoral process actually have?
uxdesign.cc
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
An Optimistic Quest in Apocalyptic Times bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/... via @cherilucasrowlands.com
bittersoutherner.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @seywarddarby.bsky.social
Israeli media's distorted view of the war in Gaza
While global news showed a humanitarian disaster, most outlets in Israel remained silent.
www.motherjones.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media? harpers.org/archive/2025... via @longreads.com
Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani
Anatomy of a credibility crisis
harpers.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM