Simon Taghioff

Product manager. Speaker and writer. Saint Paul Planning Commissioner. SHA ZLU Chair. He/him. I tweet about #Politics, #Law, #Tech, #Design, and sometimes food.

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@ScoopsStP @TheRealHotdish Exactly how I feel whenever I go to a "British Pub" outside of the UK.

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@scottbelsky Once the novelty wears off, generative AI on its own won't be enough. AI features will have to be justified just like any other technology choice. Extensibility will be key: can I build unique customer value on top of a given AI solution or not?

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

This person just won Halloween. At our house, next year's treat basket is gonna look like a farmer's market.

[Jana G. Pruden @jana_pruden]

Offering kids the choice of candy or a potato this year because I saw a meme about it. And honestly it’s super funny to see their reactions.

[Jen Yang-Wong @Jenyangwong]

What does it mean to be a successful PM?

From ruthless prioritization to making decisions, great PMs are like swiss army knives.

10 characteristics of highly effective PMs I know:

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@natehoodstp Well you see, housing is a human right, and landlords and developers making a profit from it is evil, so new housing should just sort of magically come into existe... oh wait 🤦

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@FacilitatorSher @ianrbuck @pedalingprof @DanMarStP @melissawenzelMN Identifying with this tweet. I just tried to cycle along Summit to pick up some bread. My ears are almost frozen off.

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@nathanallebach Depends on the stadium.

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

Update: multiple families with babies on the plane begging passengers to swap seats with them so they can sit together.

This is exactly the type of anti-family experience @SunCountryAir has designed.

[Sun Country Airlines @SunCountryAir]

@staghioff Hi Simon- We are sorry to hear this. This is not the type of experience we want our passengers to have. Please fill out our Customer Care form here: https://t.co/4zibMSa0VF, and tell us more about this experience so we can look into this further.

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@SunCountryAir I'll fill out your form @SunCountryAir. However, if you genuinely want to make this right, you can talk to your operations people for SY 216 out of AVL before it takes off in an hour.

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@SunCountryAir just refused to seat my brother's family of 3 together. They paid for seat assignments and would not allow a mother to check in with infant in arms. Employees dismissive and rude. Worst #CustomerService I've ever experienced. Avoid.

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@SunCountryAir Families with infants on the same reservation want to sit together. If you won't let mothers check in and pay for their seat assignments before the flight, please help at the airport.

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@emptywheel Note - the "other high profile investigations" point is because of the potentially chilling effect of e.g. revealing identities of witnesses that supported the affidavit, not because the subpoena was a fishing expedition, as falsely claimed.

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@the_transit_guy Despite the pictures, a lot of the written explanations for the diagrams seem to be less about being anti-grid and more about things like fitting streets to topography, avoiding a bunch of dead-ends, or connecting to major thoroughfares at right angles.

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@Pogue But... which airport will I make snide comments about while rolling my eyes now?

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@BirkMatt I look forward to a Lt. Gov. who is fully focused on saving us from all the bad things that aren't actually being proposed.

[Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl @FrederickMelo]

Simon Taghioff, founder of Fair Streets Saint Paul, says a single stretch of road has no value. It's value is in being connected to every stretch of road, used by everyone else. Why am I as a homeowner assessed a special roadwork fee for the road you use?

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

If you've not been following the James Webb Telescope's progress, @NASA just dropped the first ever images. They are spectacular.

[NASA @NASA]

Better together. International collaboration gave us the most powerful space telescope ever made, and the deepest infrared views of the universe ever seen. With our partners at @ESA and @CSA_ASC, the science can begin. Together we #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/oFA1ja4jeP

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

This tracks.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

5 uncommonly used indicators of exceptional PMs:

1. Concision
2. Evaluative Personality
3. Familiarity with Philosophy
4. Fandom of Science Fiction
5. Instant Ability to Change Topics

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

PMs are expected to write product strategies.

And, yet, 99% don’t even understand Porter’s 5 Forces of strategy.

The concept is considered “revolutionary” in the field of strategy.

I spent $200K on a Wharton MBA and read Porter’s 397 page book so you don’t have to:

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

@miniver Don't know if this helps, but I have closely aligned thoughts on the topic:

https://t.co/5Y6okI2kTv

[Simon Taghioff @staghioff]

The problem with the Google AI LaMBDA controversy is an attempt to reduce a thorny philosophical problem to a purely technical one. 1/