"Productivity without connection equals emptiness," says Loyola University management professor Michelle Johnston.

Head on: is agile dead? No, it is everywhere. But the mania is over. Agile won’t return, but the ideas in it will.

For some reason, UX people never speak about users or experiences. And that hurts our work. “But I talk about my users all the time.” Sure, we often say things like “Our users deserve the best user experiences,” but that’s not what I think ...

8 hot takes on where I think the PM role is headed next

Some ideas for the page: a characterization of systems. A list of the key ideas in systems. Some images that illustrate your characterization. Some examples.

If you've done the "draw a bicycle" exercise before: skip step 1, and go to step 2, so that you can get to step 3 (it's new) and 4.

Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found. More than 95% of the African penguins in two of the most important breeding colonies, on Dassen Island and Robben Island, died between 2004 and 2012. The breeding penguins probably starved to death during the moulting period, according to the paper, which said the climate crisis and overfishing were driving declines. Continue reading...

A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.

Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

Daniel Barcay sounds the alarm on AI chatbots hiding advertising in conversations—and why this threatens autonomy and demands new rules.