Joe Procopio: The Theme for 2025 Is Simplification. (Simplest Thing) I keep talking about these seismic shifts in startup land (and tech land and general business land). (more)

a change in the zeitgeist vibe, coined by Sean Monahan Nov'2021, referencing this Dean Kissick tweet (see also (2021-06-10) Notes On Dean Kissick's One Path For The Internet). (more)

notes on Dean Kissick’s "One Path for the Internet". again. I made the mistake of subscribing to Sean monahan’s substack to see what the boomer trend forecasters were saying (rip khole, you were relevant like multiple extinctions ago) and not only had to see it, but had to hate-read a mind-numbingly horrible take about it. Incredibly fucking stupid, masochistic thing to do on my end, but anyway – Monahan writes: “This post won’t be an explanation of the meme. If you want to know what it means Google the words, look up the accounts, consume the associated content. Instead, I want to point out that the general anxiety the meme has engendered is evidence of a vibe shift” (more)

Whisper is a proprietary iOS and Android mobile app available without charge, which says that it allows users to send messages anonymously, and to receive replies.[1][2][3][4] Users post messages which are displayed as text superimposed over an image, similar to greeting cards.[5] The app was launched in March 2012 under the original name Whisper Text by CEO Michael Heyward and Brad Brooks, who is the CEO of mobile messaging service Tiger Text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_(app)

see Individual Contributor

aka IC, someone who directly performs a function (like product management or software development), possibly at an advanced level, rather than becoming management

a startup started/grown without OPM - bootstrapped, using organic growth

Jason Cohen: Excuse me, is there a problem? Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. (more)

Jason Cohen on Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data. Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit – both self-funded and VC-funded – exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences. (more)

Robin Rendle: Design ain’t a democracy. Democracies are the worst way to build a product. This is the reason why most tech companies are slow and ineffective: managers aren’t really there to make decisions, set a vision, or settle disputes. These sorts of organizations are designed explicitly not to make decisions as there’s no one you can point to in an organization who can say yes or no to an idea. (Product Team Members Report To The Team Leader) (more)

a British designer, writer, and typographic nuisance from San Francisco https://robinrendle.com/

Sean Monahan: The Counter-Elite Won the Meme War. A friend brings me to an inappropriately young Halloween party in Laurel Canyon.. (more)

Sean Monahan on the vibe shift. (more)

Joe Procopio: The Future of Starting a Business Looks Drastically Different in 2024...the way that startups get funded, built, and grown has shifted dramatically over the past 12 to 18 months. There are a lot of new dynamics that need to be figured out. (more)

Joe Procopio: Is It Time for the Tech Industry to Rethink Product Management? Going forward, product people are going to have to learn to do more with less, maybe even with nothing. I’m done. I’m out. I’ve lost the battle for the heart and soul of product management (more)

Joe Procopio: Is It Time To Get Out Of Tech? I’m in a bit of an existential crisis, maybe a mid-life crisis but God, I hope not. (more)

Joe Procopio: This Is the Number 1 Tech Skill You Need to Compete Right Now. I know that there are already a million articles loudly uncovering the one true tech skill necessary to survive the AI job-cut reckoning (more)

Sean Monahan: Anatomy of a Vibe Shift (more)

Allison Davis: A Vibe Shift Is Coming. ...my friend Ellen messaged me: “Okay, please let me know if this person is dumb. But this stressed me out this morning.” She dropped a link to something titled “Vibe Shift,” an entry from a Substack called 8Ball, which turned out to be the weekly newsletter of a trend-forecasting consultancy founded by Sean Monahan. Previously, Monahan had helped found the now-defunct art collective K-HOLE (more)

Joe Procopio: How Do We Keep Our MVP Minimum and Viable? ...this is why you go MVP in the first place. You know the problem, you’ve got the solution, but there are a lot of moving parts out there in the real world markets, from data you can’t get from some customers, to features that need to work a certain way for a single customer, to assumptions you made that were just plain wrong. (more)