Jedrzej Kaminski

Jedrzej Kaminski

@jj.insightful.li

Making computers go beep, and people go yay! Psychology and Tech 🧠🤖

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Apparently, arachnophobes have more than one fear behavioural signature. When put in a VR version of the Avoidance Test, researchers extracted 5 dimensions of avoidance: - Initial freezing - Action latency - Hesitant approach - Spatial distancing - Pre-contact freezing

Interestingly, self-reported fear only partly matched actual avoidance: some highly fearful people still approached the spider relatively directly. For the replication study, I suggest equipping one experimental group with a flamethrower.

Weekends feel a lot like the office nowadays. You use harnesses and sandboxes to control things that barely follow instructions, while all they want to do is break your stuff and self-organize on obscure German wikis to cheat on benchmarks.

Among many improvements to the Oblivion's gameplay in the remastered version, I'm really digging the "make frequent pauses, mind your screen time" feature. Every 1.5h, the game mindfully crashes, giving you some needed time to touch the grass.

Ever thought of using AI as a participant during a Design Sprint? Well, what about making the whole Sprint silicon-based? For the lols, I've tried to run a Design Sprint just with AI participants, solving an imaginary problem for Vinted. Please, meet the 🤖-team:

insightful.liI facilitated a Design Sprint with AIs as the only participants. I want my intuition back.I facilitated a Design Sprint with AIs as the only participants. They had moments of insight (e.g., during Lightning Demos) but also tended to generalize, suggest blockchain, and crash.

💼 Manager (and Decider), GPT-o1. ✍️ Copywriter, Claude (3.5 Haiku). The team’s moral compass. 🛠️ Senior engineer, Grok (2.0). A boundary-pushing builder. 🎤 Support specialist, Gemini (2.0 Flash). A patient problem-solver. 🧑‍🎨 UI designer, DeepSeek (V3). The enthusiastic sponge of the design team.

@oneknightinproduct.com started his presentation about 2025 product predictions with a big asterisk... ...then shared interesting insights on challenges to the PM role, including potential undermining of the role, how we can prove its value, and adapting to AI in the workplace. Really cool stuff!

I've enjoyed reading "Shape Up" by Ryan Singer, and the six-week dev cycles that fuel Basecamp (and many other companies). A lot of things to love here, clarity of the process, ownership given to the rest of the team, innovative (and resonating deeply) approach to visualising progress...

basecamp.comShape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that MattersShape Up will help you break free of “best practices” that aren’t really working, think deeper about the right problems, and start shipping meaningful projects your team can celebrate.

But the book is mainly about how to remove the risk of shipping - how to prepare and execute bets, watching the deadline closely. The book is super valuable, but I was missing the "Basecamp art and science of picking the right bets to shape". Found this additional context to fill that gap nicely!

discourse.learnshapeup.comWhat about "strategy"?First it’s helpful to step back and put the question in a wider frame. We can distinguish two different kinds of work: Demand-side work is determining what potential customers are trying to do, wh...

Damn, that's some great storytelling and core values insights at Wave, from Zach Abugov: "Joyce opened the backpack and dumped a heap of cash onto the table. A powerful odor of fish filled the room. (...) 'Don’t worry,' Ben deadpanned. 'This is a totally legitimate company.'"

wave.comCare a lot and try hardJoyce opened the backpack and dumped a heap of cash onto the table. A powerful odor of fish filled the room. She and Ben looked up at me: wide-eyed, fresh off the plane, first time in Senegal. “Don’t ...

I love that there are shared, core elements of a process echoing in what can be described as "creativity". From user-centric product management, to debugging the code, you need to uncover the problem (1), sharpen your understanding of it (2), then resolve in a valuable way (3).

I love the hyperspecific genres Spotify is surfacing in wrapped. What's more, every year those genres are getting more and more funky. Like a bit relevant label you will never use when describing your favourite music, but it's still fun to know, and, what's important for Spotify, share with folks 😉

🇩🇪 Lachs = salmon See = lake Seelachs = ...pollock I've been bamboozled by the German language again. Or a marketing campaign, it seems: "It owes its new name to a clever sales strategy. Around the time of the First World War, real salmon became increasingly rare in German rivers...

What happens when someone who's never been able to create mental images suddenly gains that ability? Meet Patient A: diagnosed with autism & #aphantasia, she discovered a whole new dimension of consciousness through an unexpected source - magic mushrooms. Amazing preprint available here:

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Heya Sky People! I'm a product manager living in Berlin, interested in tech, #psychology, #brain and #sustainability 👏 Would gladly connect with fellow #product, #science, and Earth enthusiasts. I offer relatively relevant content and an occasional #cat photo. Everyone, please meet Bozon!

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