Bogdan Stanciu
@bogzilla.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanciu/
design and product for startups and nonprofits
design and product for startups and nonprofits
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Bogdan Stanciu
@bogzilla.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Maybe the rich are getting richer because they stopped giving us bread, but gave us the tools where we make our own circus.
To the bsky hivemind: what do you think? Have you seen this? If yes, how did you deal with it?
Right after a funding round, optimism is real—and dangerous. Checks are written, incentives align, narratives glow. Then the money clears, investors look away, and scrutiny fades to quarterly calls. This is the dead zone where problems grow in the dark.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
To the bsky hivemind: what do you think? Have you seen this? If yes, how did you deal with it?
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is extremely important
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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What a terrible time to be a good person
December 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What a terrible time to be a good person
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Real Estate: Look Who You’ve Become
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Real Estate: Look Who You’ve Become
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We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines.
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines.
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
But this work is now endangered.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...
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Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider
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Once ur basic needs are met how does anyone find the motivation to want anything other than a regulated nervous system?
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Once ur basic needs are met how does anyone find the motivation to want anything other than a regulated nervous system?
I told my kids to get into Technology.
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I told my kids to get into Technology.
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Same here. I’ve never even seen a group of friends.
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Same here. I’ve never even seen a group of friends.
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dude whaaaaaaaaaaat
Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room
Goal was to control the economy with clicks
Goal was to control the economy with clicks
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
dude whaaaaaaaaaaat
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Daughter setting up improv event called ‘Do the damn thing’
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Daughter setting up improv event called ‘Do the damn thing’
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8yo got a packet of sunflower seeds in her trick or treat bag, probably the best treat anyone got! 🌱🌻
November 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
8yo got a packet of sunflower seeds in her trick or treat bag, probably the best treat anyone got! 🌱🌻
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Ominous Halloween Zoom update
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Ominous Halloween Zoom update
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Startup IQ is going to the New York State Innovation Summit, hosted by FuzeHub and supported by NYSTAR. Register here nysinnovationsummit.com/register/
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Startup IQ is going to the New York State Innovation Summit, hosted by FuzeHub and supported by NYSTAR. Register here nysinnovationsummit.com/register/
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October 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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From a new @thelancet.com article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
From a new @thelancet.com article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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A bunch of unlovable cars in the receiving lot, just waiting to be matched with their unlovable men.
October 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A bunch of unlovable cars in the receiving lot, just waiting to be matched with their unlovable men.
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The post war system was built on the specific experience of how systems failed humans. Niceness was never the issue. Being human was.
Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"
October 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The post war system was built on the specific experience of how systems failed humans. Niceness was never the issue. Being human was.
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.
October 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.
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>be me
>be employed
>company goes belly up
>be 57
>job market laughs in boomer
>invent idea to fix real problem
>get shat on by internet randos who think kicking down is a hobby
>still gonna make it anyway
>be employed
>company goes belly up
>be 57
>job market laughs in boomer
>invent idea to fix real problem
>get shat on by internet randos who think kicking down is a hobby
>still gonna make it anyway
October 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
>be me
>be employed
>company goes belly up
>be 57
>job market laughs in boomer
>invent idea to fix real problem
>get shat on by internet randos who think kicking down is a hobby
>still gonna make it anyway
>be employed
>company goes belly up
>be 57
>job market laughs in boomer
>invent idea to fix real problem
>get shat on by internet randos who think kicking down is a hobby
>still gonna make it anyway
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Hey Richmond, here's your chance to get interviewed by a world famous former public radio personality!
Hey #RVA Anyone going to the Richmond Folk Festival this weekend? I’m doing a story for The Richmonder & would love to interview you—especially if you’ve never been and/or have been going for years.
DM me.
DM me.
October 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Hey Richmond, here's your chance to get interviewed by a world famous former public radio personality!
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$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.
$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.
$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
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Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."
But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.
But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.
UX so bad that it's illegal
Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."
But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.
But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.