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The dog days of summer are almost upon us! In anticipation, we're sharing 15 books by NYFA-affiliated writers...some of which are hot off the presses (or are about to be!). The image is of Summer J. Hart's dog, who "has opinions" about her process. Details https://ow.ly/aSZ350Z7Pbp Featured: -Iain Haley Pollock -Edgar Gomez -Cathy Linh Che -Summer J. Hart -Lu Chekowsky -Eliza Barry Callahan -Rachel Jihye Han -Hala Alyan -Miller Wolf Oberman -Nina St. Pierre -Hannah Thurman -Olivia Wolfgang-Smith -Sarah Wang -Ellyn Gaydos -Elina Alter

Ten years ago, I joined Nexcess.net. Today is my last day, as CTO of Nexcess and Liquid Web. In that time, we built. Products. Platforms. Teams. A managed hosting business that grew organically and through acquisitions, consolidations, and the kind of software, platform, and messy plumbing work nobody puts on a slide. I'm proud of the work. More importantly, I'm proud of the people who did it with me. Here are my honest thoughts on that journey: The work was hard. Engineering software and platforms in the multi-tenant hosting space, at fleet scale, is unforgiving in ways you only learn by living it. Outages cost real dollars, but more importantly, real sweat equity by humans: birthdays, anniversaries, family vacations become part of the incident channels. Migrations don't go to plan. Customers don't care about your reorgs. The teams I had the privilege of leading shipped through all of it, often quietly, often without enough recognition. I find myself incredibly humbled and honored to have worked with teams that sacrifice, quietly, for each other and our customers, without hesitation. I'm confidently leaving the technology org in better shape than I found it, which is all I ever ask of my teams. I am proud of our journey together. Better architecture, better practices, better people. That credit belongs to the software and platform engineers, front-line support, and leaders who actually do the work. I tried to clear the road and get into the weeds with y'all along the journey, and I'm thankful for your grace to allow me to be part of that with you. To the customers who trust us with their workloads, their businesses, and in many cases their livelihoods: that trust was never lost on me. Hosting is one of those industries where the work is invisible until it isn't, and you stayed with us across migrations, rebrands, ownership changes, and the inevitable hard nights. That trust is the most valuable thing this business has. I tried hard never to spend it lightly. Thank you for trusting in our organization, and on no small amount of occasions, affording me your personal trust to show up when it mattered most. To everyone at #LiquidWeb, #StellarWP, #Nexcess, #Servers.com, #InterWorx, and across the Nexcess.com portfolio: Thank you. You're the best part of the last decade. We built a Michigan love story together, bringing Nexcess.net and Liquid Web under one roof and growing it into a global organization with a wider, more diverse set of leaders and brands. That story is incomplete and now in your hands. Solve for the outcome, for our customers. I trust in you. To the founders and leaders who entrusted us with what they built, inside the #StellarWP constellation: #KadenceWP, #LearnDash, #TheEventsCalendar, #GiveWP, #SolidWP (#iThemes), and to the teams who carried it forward: what you made mattered. Thank you for serving your, our, customers. What's next? Still figuring it out. Open to conversations. → To be continued.

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Am I the only Product Manager who still isn't getting exponential value out of AI? Here's my problem: I'm already very efficient with the aspects of my job that AI would help with. ChatGPT can do math and create a draft doc faster, but that's about it. It can't weigh competing priorities and other factors to create a viable strategy faster than I can. And I constantly have to check its bias because it wants to give me the answer I'm looking for. Basically, it can't think for me, and that's the highest value work I currently provide. The only AI tool I've been excited about so far is Cursor because it helps semi-technical Product Managers (and aspiring #vibecoders) like me explore and interact with the code base, make small changes or fixes, or even create a prototype for a new feature. Which AI tools do you use, and what do you like about them? How do they help you do more impactful work? #productmanagement #ai

After one year of work wp-browser v4 RC1 is out: https://lnkd.in/eDPj9RiT There is more work to do to make it ready for a streamlined experience, but I'm getting there. Rad more here: https://lnkd.in/ezi58J7g