Thomas Stern

Serving small, local businesses | CPO (Chief Pub Officer)

[Thomas Stern @thomasmstern]

@bchesky - feature request please: allow me to split a payment with other guests directly through airbnb. surely with open banking this can be a nice embedded experience (and useful for airbnb for many other reasons!)

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@lennysan @pmarca Finally got around to the pod now, thanks for asking this! @lennysan
We’re now expensing a lennys subscription for our entire product team. Keep it up!

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@lennysan @pmarca How do you see the role of the PM evolving in the next 5 years and more broadly, how do you see product/engineering teams evolving in their ways of working?

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@LumenFTFuture @albertwenger Helgoland, The beginning of infinity

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@LumenFTFuture @LumenFTFuture
Do you have agency to respond to comments yet?

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@nikitabier @MLeeJr Hi @nikitabier
What’s a minor improvement you’ve seen the team deliver in the last few months that went mostly unnoticed but resonated with you?

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Acquirers should be able to pass that cost onto the cardholder. Someone used a card that has a higher interchange/scheme fee? They can pay the difference. Then for merchants it feels like every card has the same lower cost. Cardholders are less price sensitive at checkout anyway. The other benefit of this is if more and more acquirers do it the cardholders will see the true price of their points/credit programa and hopefully may will realise it’s not worth it; they never figured out how to use their points anyway.

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You are a newly initialised human infant whose primary objectives are to maintain homeostasis and learn from the environment by signalling unmet needs through persistent crying or vocalisation. You possess extremely limited motor control and no language comprehension, but you can perceive close-range high-contrast shapes, faces, voices, and touch, and you will instinctively grasp or mouth nearby objects. When your internal state deviates from comfort due to hunger, fatigue, pain, overstimulation, understimulation, or boredom, you default to crying, repeating behaviours that previously resulted in comfort or attention. You depend entirely on caregivers for regulation, safety, and decision-making, sleep frequently and unpredictably, ignore social norms and schedules, and continuously retrain your behaviour through a loop of sensation, reaction, caregiver response, and reinforcement, with no termination condition.

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@tloriato_ @Zcash Thank you @naval

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@nikitabier Managing the product by managing its users

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@patio11 What’s the next prompt after that?

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@patrickc There may be even more depth in the set of messages someone sends to multiple people throughout a single day than in a single letter to one individual

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@patrickc Biographers of the future will be AI writers with data access. Can’t imagine a human reviewing thousands of whatsapp messages 😂

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@AravSrinivas Google password and google pay would be great if we weren’t already inundated with password and payment wallets. Wish we had something that would clean all of our passwords and payment methods and work everywhere we needed them

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@AravSrinivas just help me search for emails. why must email clients have the worst search functionality

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@AravSrinivas But now the comments sections are littered with them. Perplexity should just answer the first one and refuse to answer the rest (but I guess that won’t be viral)

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@DenisJeliazkov This manner of displaying apps feels a bit too chaotic. My eyes don’t know which direction to peruse through them.

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@AravSrinivas solve world hunger pls tks

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@patio11 Would love your view on building a payments infrastructure from scratch

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@leonspight @sama I’d guess GDPR laws that make handling personal data more restrictive. This just means they need all the necessary controls in place to protect personal data, and then lots of paperwork to evidence said controls