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Christoph Steinlehner

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Product Coach & Consultant Throwing stickies at Mapper.club Washington, DC

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Context switching is the evil brother of prioritization.

17.12.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Iβ€˜m totally fine with AI supported writing. But looking at the currently published content: It gets longer, and that’s annoying, because I want to still read full articles, but it gets impossible. And no, I don’t think AI summaries a solution.

05.11.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sitting in a train. Working with Claude Code on next weeks plan with my phone (via happy). Works surprisingly well.

31.10.2025 15:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s fascinating how even the big and product centric companies regularly fall into the β€šwe build it and they will comeβ€˜ trap. Of course people don’t just buy games at Steam, they enter a ecosystem to fulfill underlying needs.

29.10.2025 08:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm still totally flabbergasted by how bad the whole implementation of AusweisApp (German eID) is. It's technically ultra complicated, and the user experience is a maze mixed with randomness.
I still think the only way to fix this is to use this as the standard login for everyone in public service.

28.10.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Product Walk πŸ‘Ÿ Berlin - November Edition Β· Luma After a great kick-off this September, we will continue to walk and talk. Especially when it's getting dark and cold, fresh air is important (said my mom).…

I will do another for Product Walk Berlin on Nov 6 πŸšΆβ€β™‚οΈ

Join me and skip the small talk. We'll walk and discuss real product challenges - stakeholder management, AI tools, whatever's top of mind.

1.5 hours. Deeper conversations. Better than standing around with drinks.

luma.com/zx3lq620

28.10.2025 09:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just installed ito (is open source). But dictly looks also interesting.
And yes OS will catch up. Question is if there will be a β€žproβ€œ play. Like Raycast vs. Spotlight.

27.10.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It seems like every day there is a new speech2text Mac app. I’m wondering if there will be a winner and what their moat and differentiator will be. Or if this will go directly to OS integration (they already have the last gen tech integrated).

27.10.2025 21:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is using Obsidian and Claude Code together Vibe Noting?

24.10.2025 15:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dr Manhattan meme about time.
Frame 1: IT IS 1999 AND SEMANTIC WEB AGENTS WILL BOOK MY HOLIDAY AUTONOMOUSLY. THE ONTOLOGIES ARE BEING
DEVELOPED. I AM VERY EXCITED.
Frame 2: IT IS 2016 AND CHATBOTS ON FACEBOOK MESSENGER WILL BOOK MY HOLIDAY. I DON'T NEED TO DOWNLOAD AN APP. I AM CHATTING WHERE I ALREADY CHAT WITH MY FRIENDS. I AM VERY EXCITED.
Frame 3: IT IS 2025 AND OPENAI ARE INTRODUCING APPS IN CHATGPT TO BOOK MY HOLIDAY AUTONOMOUSLY. OPENAI HAS PARTNERSHIPS WITH BOOKING COM AND UBER. OPENAI IS BECOMING THE PLATFORM LAYER BETWEEN ME AND THE WEB. I AM VERY EXCITED.

Dr Manhattan meme about time. Frame 1: IT IS 1999 AND SEMANTIC WEB AGENTS WILL BOOK MY HOLIDAY AUTONOMOUSLY. THE ONTOLOGIES ARE BEING DEVELOPED. I AM VERY EXCITED. Frame 2: IT IS 2016 AND CHATBOTS ON FACEBOOK MESSENGER WILL BOOK MY HOLIDAY. I DON'T NEED TO DOWNLOAD AN APP. I AM CHATTING WHERE I ALREADY CHAT WITH MY FRIENDS. I AM VERY EXCITED. Frame 3: IT IS 2025 AND OPENAI ARE INTRODUCING APPS IN CHATGPT TO BOOK MY HOLIDAY AUTONOMOUSLY. OPENAI HAS PARTNERSHIPS WITH BOOKING COM AND UBER. OPENAI IS BECOMING THE PLATFORM LAYER BETWEEN ME AND THE WEB. I AM VERY EXCITED.

09.10.2025 17:17 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

This is hilarious: Ask your LLM if there is a seahorse emoji.

More details vgel.me/posts/seahor...

07.10.2025 07:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chatkontrolle stoppen! Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...

'Chat-Control' is such a silly idea, opening the road to every autocrat's wet dream. Can we please not destroy the secure infrastructure? weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

07.10.2025 07:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds to me not so unusual. The article says it’s an early prototype. Working out what functionality people need and what works in real circumstances, before introducing fine grained user management, event logging, etc. sounds smarter than creating β€˜a perfect system’ that doesn’t do the job.

05.10.2025 06:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, good idea. Can perplexity create csv or xls?

03.10.2025 19:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m trying to do some heavier research with ChatGPT. Basically getting infos about the Berlin startup scene. And it seems ChatGPT wants to save tokens. It’s again and again providing less things as I asked and also is arguing if I really need this info. Computers πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

03.10.2025 17:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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16.09.2025 14:40 πŸ‘ 11080 πŸ” 4659 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 257

With all these ATS and AI conversions in the job application management systems. Is there a data format standard for CVs that ATS are using under the hood?
It feels like people are faxing CVs back and forth and are surprised a lot of stuff is going wrong.

16.09.2025 13:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stuff that seems to be a thing in Germany, but not in the US: WhatsApp and Signal Communities.

I'm pretty surprised that it seems German professional networks actually run on WhatsApp.

10.09.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anmeldung beim Einwohnermeldeamt, nicht beim Beitragsservice. Die verweisen darauf, dass sie die Daten vom Einwohnermeldeamt bekommen.

06.09.2025 08:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kann bitte jeder, der bei staatlichen Projekten ΓΌber BeschrΓ€nkungen durch Datenschutz, digtiale Prozesse, etc. jammert den Beitragsservice fragen? Kurz nach Anmeldung bekommt man einen Brief mit QR Code, man gibt das Aktenzeichen ein, und alle Daten sind vorausgefΓΌllt. Alle anderen dΓΌrfen das nicht?

06.09.2025 08:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Baudrillard’s 4 stages of simulacra applied to pumpkin spice

Stage one (next to picture of pumpkin): Initially the sign (image or representation) is a reflection of basic reality

Stage two (next to picture of pumpkin pie): the sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of reality

Stage three (next to Starbucks pumpkin spice latte): the sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists

Stage four (next to jug of pumpkin spice flavored coffee mate): the sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is it’s own pure simulacrum

Baudrillard’s 4 stages of simulacra applied to pumpkin spice Stage one (next to picture of pumpkin): Initially the sign (image or representation) is a reflection of basic reality Stage two (next to picture of pumpkin pie): the sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of reality Stage three (next to Starbucks pumpkin spice latte): the sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists Stage four (next to jug of pumpkin spice flavored coffee mate): the sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is it’s own pure simulacrum

Don’t know who made this but thank you

26.08.2025 20:03 πŸ‘ 3717 πŸ” 1015 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 71

I just gave ChatGPT a pixelated whiteboard of mine to test if it could still read it. It said yes, and made up all of it's context with content from former conversations.
Super interesting how the memory sometimes seems to work as a 'I think you want to hear' function.

26.08.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The most problematic aspect about that, is that politics / public debate runs on opinion polling. I'm pretty sure that we would have different politics, if we would ask people about actual behaviors instead of asking about opinions.

25.08.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1. It's well known (low risk for buying decision)
2. All data is already in Atlassian systems (no switching cost)
3. Everybody knows it (no training cost for new people)
4. Can be configured (we are specialβ„’)

Most enterprise software is not about the user, but the buyer (see rise of Azure Devops)

19.08.2025 13:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've actually seen companies that were able to prioritize and focus. But I also seen many that were far away from this. The main difference: Focus comes with strategic decision making, if everything is 'a good idea' nothing is.

19.08.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Business organizations tend to start over time to protect themselves from their customers and their staff. Look at any bank, insurance, telco, or similar. Customers are asked constantly to prove they are not fraudsters, and employees are operating in tight guardrails to ensure they are not stealing.

18.08.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It seems like Instagram tweaked something on their suggestion algorithm. My abandoned account gets a lot of new followers. Probably the PM hits the goal, but nothing will change for a user or the business.

18.08.2025 14:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are Vibe-Coder and Bro-Grammer the same?

15.08.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Many pre-Covid Meetups transformed to online formats and with that to marketing sessions for the organizers. This is not a critique. Everybody is free to join these or not. But it's interesting how the format change from in-person to online also changed from many2many to one2many. Medium is message.

13.08.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Two chairs and a table in an empty flat.

Two chairs and a table in an empty flat.

Almost a real office. I even would have a chair for a client.

05.08.2025 18:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0