Nils Davis 🚢

Host of Secrets of Product Management podcast ( nilsdavis on Post

[Nils Davis 🚢 @NilsDavis]

The Secret Product Manager Handbook is perfect for new product managers.

One reader said "I love your book. I have recommended it to all the PMs I mentor. In the past month probably 10. Not kidding. It is a gem. I wish I read it 15 years ago when I was getting into product."

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals.

As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them.

Go Knicks.

[Elissa Slotkin @ElissaSlotkin]

In December, President Trump called for me to be investigated, arrested, and hanged over a 90-second video that restated existing law.

My lawyer's advice was straightforward: go quiet. Keep your head down. This will blow over.

But in this administration, the reality is that keeping your head down does not keep you safe. Staying quiet when power comes after you does not make the threat go away. It just teaches the people making the threat that it works.

When a president can call for the arrest and execution of a sitting senator for quoting the law, and the expected response is silence, that's a problem that goes way beyond me. That affects every American who works in government, every journalist, every ordinary citizen who might speak up.

A grand jury of ordinary Americans looked at this situation and said no. They understood what was at stake, and I think most Americans do.

We refuse to accept that this is the new normal.

This moment isn't really about me. When the administration is willing to go after a senator this way, it sends a message to every American who might speak up. That should concern people in both parties.

[B. Miller @BlaiseInKC]

There’s some quirk in physics where, if there’s a small hole in a bag of mulch it will leak all over your vehicle.
But if you rip a giant hole in the bag and try to dump it out into your landscaping, almost none will fall out.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: LOL! Jimmy Kimmel just won a Peabody Award and used his acceptance speech to laugh in Trump’s face.

Jimmy Kimmel won a Peabody Award last night. And he used his acceptance speech to deliver one of the most gloriously defiant moments in the history of American comedy.

Standing alongside journalists who exposed Trump administration immigration horrors and prison abuse, a teacher who took on Putin, and documentarians covering Vietnam War protests, Kimmel opened with characteristic self-deprecation:

"I've never felt dumber than I do right now, being on stage with this group of people who expose the horrors of ICE, prison abuse, and protests against the Vietnam War, a teacher who took on Putin. I called our president Fatty Shack. And Blob the Builder. And Liger Woods and the Hungry Hungry Hypocrite. Our fondling father, Mara Lardo. Nelson Tandela. And Nostra Dumbass. And somehow we got a Peabody out of that."

But then Kimmel got serious — and the room got quiet.

"Making jokes about the president in America shouldn't win you a prize," he said. "We have the right, guaranteed by the Constitution, to criticize and satirize our leaders. This is a right that many of us take for granted. It's one that I took for granted for the first 57 years of my life until September of last year when the FCC delivered a very unpleasant surprise."

Trump's FCC chief, Brendan Carr, launched an investigation into Kimmel last year as part of the administration's broader campaign to weaponize federal regulators against media critics, leading ABC/Disney to cancel Kimmel’s program, albeit temporarily. But Kimmel said what happened next surprised him even more than the attack itself.

"I watched as millions of people, even some from across the aisle, objected. They spoke up. They marched. They canceled their subscriptions to Star Wars because they refused to allow our freedoms to be bulldozed like the East Wing of the White House. You sent a message that we do care and that we will stand up and that we will not stand by when comedy and journalism and dissent are censored and regulated and criminalized."

He closed with a list of thank-yous that will live forever: "Thank you to Donald Trump, our commander-in-thief, Abriscam Lincoln, Orange Julius Caesar, Greedy McGolfy, Dopey McGropy, and Pumpkin McPornhumper. Thank you for inspiring us to fight for our freedom of speech."

The First Amendment is not negotiable. And apparently, neither is Jimmy Kimmel.

If you believe that Jimmy Kimmel absolutely deserved his Peabody award, please like and share this post everywhere!

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

My wife and I finally got an offer accepted on a house and hired a home inspector.

I thought he'd just walk around and make sure the roof wasn't actively caving in.

Instead, a guy named Gary showed up with a tactical utility belt, an infrared camera, and the demeanor of a homicide detective.

Gary spent 6 hours meticulously documenting every structural sin committed in the last 50 years.

He handed me a 90-page PDF report that was color-coded by severity.

The whole document was basically just red.

He noted that the slope of the driveway deviates by two degrees, which could cause pooling during a catastrophic hundred-year flood.

I live in a landlocked state.

He pointed his thermal camera at a window and told me I was losing an unacceptable amount of ambient heat.

I told him the window was open.

He wrote that down as a critical mechanical failure.

He took me to the basement to look at the HVAC unit.

He shined his flashlight on a single speck of dust and asked if I was prepared for the respiratory consequences of poor filtration.

I asked him if the furnace actually worked.

He sighed deeply and said it functions, but it lacks the efficiency of a modern heat pump.

We moved to the electrical panel where Gary put on thick rubber gloves like he was about to defuse a bomb.

He told me the wiring was technically up to code but ethically questionable.

I don't know how electricity can lack morals, but Gary seemed very disappointed in the circuit breaker.

Finally, he found a tiny crack in the garage floor.

He used a digital caliper to measure it and informed me the foundation is undergoing micro-settlement.

Every house on earth is undergoing micro-settlement.

We're on a spinning rock in space, Gary.

I asked him for a bottom-line assessment on whether we should buy the property.

He looked me dead in the eye and said the house is technically habitable but still compromised.

I paid him $600 for this psychological warfare.

We're still going to buy the house.

I'm just going to live in constant fear that maybe Gary was right.

[ℋ𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓎 @Am_hailey]

When I was 14, I had a girl who was a friend who I liked more than a friend. I didn’t know what that meant. I liked boys too.

I will never forget my mom sitting me down and telling me that it was okay if I liked girls. That she’d love me no matter what. I was so confused… cause I thought if I liked girls, it meant I didn’t like boys. My Irish catholic mom in 2004 looked at me and said it doesn’t matter who I love as long as I was happy and they treated me well.

Flash forward ten years later

It’s 2014, I’m 24 and my mom just passed away. I’m back home, visiting my dad and I blurt out that I’m Bi. I had never told my dad. I was scared. He was super religious and conservative.

He kissed the top of my head and said, “I know, Pumpkin.”

I asked, “Mom told you?”

“Nope. Your mother said a thing. But it was impossible for me not to notice your big heart. I knew you’d tell me when you were ready. One question, though? Why date men? Girls are so much prettier and smell good.”

I broke dow n laughing and crying. I had a boyfriend at the time (who I ended up marrying).

I married a man, and there are a lot of people who think that dimishes me as a queer person. There are people who want me to defend my queerness.

Bi people exist no matter what in a cis passing relationship or not.

I am so lucky to have a mom who made it easier for me to figure out who I was.

Happy Pride 🌈🌈🌈

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, bailouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive? And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Hegseth’s ban on transgender military members being ruled unconstitutional on the first day of Pride is hilarious.

[Liz Ryan @humanworkplace]

One evening in the nineteen-seventies, my dad hosted a fancy business event on behalf of his company at one of the university clubs in Manhattan.

He was a magazine publisher. The event was an annual bash for his team and their most important advertisers and clients.

The event was going wonderfully when my dad got an urgent call from the lobby imploring him to come down and deal with a situation right away.

He took the elevator down to learn that the ground floor staff had prohibited a guest bearing an invitation (a client) from entering the elevator to join the party.

Why did they do that?

Because she was a woman, and she arrived alone.

At that time, the club did not allow women beyond the lobby unless they were accompanied by a man.

The club concierge and ground floor staff had told the woman she could not enter, so she laid on the floor on her back and waited for something to happen.

What a badass!

My dad came downstairs, told the club staff they were being ridiculous, his company had not agreed to the no-unaccompanied-women rule, and my dad and his client went upstairs.

He came home very embarrassed.

He said, this nonsense will be over by the time you grow up.

But it isn’t over.

All-male panels make decisions about women’s health.

When my dad threw that party where a woman had to lie on the floor in protest, we had control over our bodies.

Now, we don’t.

Around the same time, a constitutional amendment was drafted to give women in the US the same rights as men.

That amendment is not in force today.

My rights and every woman’s rights begin and end at each state line.

Can you imagine?

Can we call ourselves a civilized country?

We should be moving ahead but instead, we are hurtling backwards.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Can everyone finally acknowledge that trump made a huge mistake attacking Iran and has no clue how to get out of it so he's just going to continue getting people killed and the destroying the economy in a sad attempt to save face?

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump is weak.

When you stand up to his bullshit, he retreats. When you challenge him, he folds.

Bullies count on fear. Stand up to them.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: A viral joke on social media to turn Trump’s White House UFC fight on America’s 250th birthday into the “gayest party in US history” is becoming real as hundreds of gay men are actually buying tickets and planning to show up shirtless, glittered up, and very flamboyant.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

Yep.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we never question why the super rich are never satisfied with what they already have.

[Nils Davis 🚢 @NilsDavis]

@paulg So @paulg is saying, "Is it weird that I'm seeing a lot of... 'the core persuasive device of rhetoric'... everywhere?"

[Nils Davis 🚢 @NilsDavis]

@paulg ... Therefore investors infer weak cost controls.

The first premise is never stated, but the audience supplies it automatically.

Aristotle considered the enthymeme the core persuasive device of rhetoric.

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

The sickest thing about gas prices going from $2.84 to $4.99 in just two months is that Donald Trump is mentioned over 38,000 times in the Epstein Files.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Zohran Mamdani is 34 years old. YOUNG PEOPLE CAN LEAD EFFECTIVELY. You don't have to be 70 with "life experience" to do a good job.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This