Hey friends,

It's been a while! No full posts in this issue, but I guess the headline (well, for me) is that I have an iPhone app in the App Store now! It's the most niche thing you can possibly think of... it lets you easily track your physical (Vinyl/CD) music listening via the tracking service Last.fm.

If that sounds really silly to you I will have you know that there are dozens of us—DOZENS!— who have a need for this. You can read more on the landing page here.

To the links!

Rian

Link Posts

• How to stay relevant when the PM role keeps rewriting itself — Melissa Perri reframes PM productivity as "how often you changed a decision that mattered, how often you saw around a corner," and I argue the missing piece is the work of setting up the AI layers above you so the right decisions surface in the first place.

• Why Did Hollywood Stop Making Dramas? — Daniel Parris at Stat Significant on why 90s Oscar dramas feel dated while action and horror don't: spectacle still translates across generations, while the cultural-emotional texture those dramas relied on tends not to.

• I Left Port 22 Open for 54 Days: An SSH Honeypot Study — Arman exposed port 22 for 54 days and logged everything that hit it. Every IP gets probed within seconds of going live, so no server is too obscure to attract automated attacks.

• Meet the Sad Wives of AI — A Wired essay from the perspective of women whose husbands won't stop monologuing about AI. I feel personally attacked by this one."

• You're Worse at Your Job Because You Care Too Much — Molly Graham on why caring deliberately beats caring about everything, with a one-year filter for separating strategic weight from background noise.

• The Product Leader's Influence on the World We All Will Live in — Petra Wille on the cognitive "brain fry" she's seeing in coaching sessions, with teams completely "cooked" before lunch after a morning of AI prompting and output review. Nobody has good answers yet for what sustainable rhythms look like.

Side project releases

• tldl v2.4.0 — A broadsheet-style redesign with a highlighted lead episode, cleaner typography, and redesigned episode pages.

• lastfm-mcp v2.4.0 — Three new top-tracks and artist tools, timezone-aware date queries, and an 8,000-line code cleanup.

• discogs-mcp v3.3.0 — Hourly background sync means collection searches return instantly without paging the Discogs API.

• Discrobble v1.0.2 — The iPhone app that scrobbles your Discogs collection to Last.fm is now live and free on the App Store.