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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Sending some Daft Punk vibes: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger 🎶

a cartoon drawing of a helmet and the words stronger below it

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a helmet and the words stronger below it

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just learned that #Anthropic’s #Claude will use user data for training unless you opt out by September 28, 2025.
Wondering if that’s now the new default for AI?

I opted out. You might want to check your privacy settings too!

#AI #Privacy #DataProtection #Claude #Anthropic

Privacy mail by Antrophic and Claude about their changes to use your data to train their models.

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ah, I feel reminded of @spavel.bsky.social post: productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age...

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thank you for sharing, nice read. I thought about Zombie Agile or Scrum too, because of a talk from the past by www.zombiescrum.org.

Words matter, thank you for sharing!

Buy the "Zombie Scrum Survival Guide"

Start your recovery from Zombie Scrum today - even in the most rigid and traditional organizations.

www.zombiescrum.org

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 26

Anyone in #ProductManagement or #Agile have good articles on writing/using #PRDs today?

Curious about the current state of the practice:
- Do you still use PRDs?
- When was the last time?
- What’s your take?

Open to different contexts and perspectives. #ProductDesign #Lean #AgileProductManagement

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 20

Made me smile today. Seems like I‘m in the software industry too long and seen this too often.
Root causes could be different. Tech debt is real.
Even best engineering skills fail if problem-solution fit is not accomplished.
What do you think about that?
#productmanagement #prodmgmt

Work Chronicles @workchronicles.bsky.social · Aug 20

(comic) Temporary fixes, permanent consequences.

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Best way to write about your practices too. Struggling with books these days too as I tried to followed some of them too religiously. Back to do the work by myself and iterating from there.

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 16

🎉 Double celebration! Product Field + ProductTank Frankfurt both hit 10 years!
🌡️ Hot night • 🧠 Learning • 🤝 Networking • 🍕 Pizza
Next: Matt LeMay Oct 20 + book raffle!
📎 virtualpatrick.com/2025/08/16/c...
🎯 www.meetup.com/producttank-...
#ProductManagement #Frankfurt #ProductTank @kpfrahm.com

Celebrating 10 Years of Product Field & ProductTank Frankfurt

TL;DR Loved the ProductTank Frankfurt reboot celebrating a decade of Product Field and ProductTank Frankfurt? Don’t miss our next event with Matt LeMay on October 20, 2025 – register now! The…

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 10

Rented a car in Olbia via a 3rd party. Returned it via key drop. Same day, a €115 charge for “new” rear bumper damage. Photos proved it was pre-existing. Seems like a common low-amount scam.
Anyone else experienced this?
#Drivalia #Italy #Sardegna #Olbia

Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 7

Nice - will give it a try!

Chris Messina @chrismessina.me · Aug 6

Installing gpt-oss-20b via @lmstudio-ai.bsky.social

My hard drive is mostly now just filled with LLMs

lmstudio.ai/blog/gpt-oss

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Chris Messina @chrismessina.me · Aug 7

🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

#IDemandHashtags #DeadTwitter

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 6

I’m still wondering about inflation in Europe or if prices are simply getting more expensive.
For example, I recently bought a panini with tomato, tuna, and some fresh fruits for takeaway, with 100 grams or less. To my surprise, it cost me approximately 12 Euros.
What are your thoughts on this?

Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 6

Pavel’s blog post is worth reading. It should encourage everyone to consider a more human perspective on AI.

#productmanagement

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Aug 1

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it needs all of your data to do it.

In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ah, I see. It all comes with certain costs. The question is, who will benefit from what? Balance and Karma - live and let live.

What are your thoughts on that?
Would you buy or try the product?

Source: techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/t...

#AI #windsurf #cognition #worklifebalance #productmanagement

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Jul 8

Life of a product manager at enterprises: open.substack.com/pub/workchro...
@workchronicles.bsky.social
#hidethepain
#prodmgmt #productmanagement

(comic) Just checking in

Comics about work. Made with love and lots of coffee.

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Jul 5

Still processing @productatheart.bsky.social.

@arnekittler.bsky.social said, “Curation is one of our most powerful tools of resistance.” That line hit home.

From cynical critic to hopeful curator - that’s the shift I’m making.

Full thoughts: virtualpatrick.com/2025/07/04/p...
#productmanagement

Product at Heart 2025: My Key Takeaways from Hamburg Conference

As someone who’s become a regular attendee of Product at Heart in Hamburg, I find myself returning year after year for the same compelling reasons: deepening my product management knowledge, …

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Jun 24

Received an offer about house renovation yesterday and this is how I feel since then: open.substack.com/pub/workchro...

(comic) I finally make good money

Comics about work. Made with love and lots of coffee.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jun 20

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled.

LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Jun 20

Confused by signals —> true that and my values appreciate smart, kind and honest.

Confused by signals

Even at a distance, we can sometimes tell if someone is educated, rich, powerful or physically attractive. But that doesn’t always correlate with smart, kind or honest. Strong signals might n…

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Jun 19

Recommended read by Jurgen Appelo about AI and bullshit work. When you’re using AI tools on a daily basis, this resonates a lot.
open.substack.com/pub/themaver...

#productmanagement #prodmgmt

Escape Velocity—How AI Will Achieve Peak Bullshit Work

AI removes the human bottlenecks that once kept meaningless bureaucracy in check.

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Jun 13

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Silence isn't empty.

It's full of answers.

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Jun 13

Remembering a design colleague who called it ”Frankenstein“ a lot. It‘s the system you work in.

Matthew Oliphant @matthewoliphant.com · Jun 13

Product Design = Feature Design. Same for Product Management.

Y'all design tiny parts of a whole that often never forms a whole.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jun 12

I have never gotten a clear explanation of what "product designer" was supposed to mean, but I had juniors asking me "how do I pivot from UX Design to Product Design" as though that phrase meant something

Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · Jun 13

I do relate and feel you. Closing MS Teams after the last meeting of the week feels similar when getting another ”quick question“ to talk.

#productmanagement #prodmgmt #tgif

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · May 29

Thank you for your response. Just to clarify - are you referring to my posts, the article, or both?

The article doesn’t discuss specific practices; rather, it explores the broader thought process behind what it’s becoming. You didn’t miss anything - it wasn’t explicitly outlined.

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Patrick Sauerwein @srwn.bsky.social · May 29

The Agile Industrial Complex mistook adoption for impact. True agility is about outcomes, not rituals.

Are you optimizing your process, or your product? #Agile #ProductStrategy #productmanagement #prodmgmt

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