Toby Rogers

@tobyrogers.pm

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the punk pm | talking about product, tech creativity, and innovation | head of product @ https://hedgehoglab.com | retired music journo | blue peter badge winner | adhd https://tobyrogers.pm

A customisation menu in Slack that encourages the user to celebrate the music of Miles Davis with colour schemes for Kind of Blue, Funky Fresh, Jazz Club, Electric Fusion, Brassy, and Sunglasses Inside.
Screenshot from Andrew Chen's X account that says: bullish on the PM role quietly becoming the most important role in tech again. When anyone can build, the person who decides what to build becomes the bottleneck.
A laptop with an image of a podcast recording on screen with three people in it.
White cube-shaped digital alarm clock
Image of a donkey and some mountains with text that says you unsubscribed from our mailing list. Our unsubscribe donkey, Pepe will begin his journey; your request should be processed in 4 to 6 weeks.
Bald man with glasses in a blue shirt pointing at a whiteboard with a marker-drawn graph. On the bottom axis it says fuck around and on the left axis it says find out. The graph has a line that says the more you fuck around the more you find out
Me talking about prototyping as an alternative to writing product requirements documents in front of an attentive audience of product people (and some pizzas) at ProductTank Newcastle.
Screenshot of a tweet from Google’s Head of Product, Madhu Guru talking about how they’re moving from a writing-first culture to a building-first culture with vibe coding tools.
Meme showing a note-taking journey that goes from calm Apple Notes to frantic and freaked out Anki, Readwise, Notion, Roam, Obsidian etc to zen Apple Notes.
Screenshot of a fantasy football stats app in the style of championship manager
A screenshot from Anthropic’s Claude app saying your account has been disabled after an automatic review of your recent activities
A screenshot from a prototype for a flat earth navigation app with a voice interface that only responds to rhyme.
An action figure in a blister pack wearing a hoodie, jeans and trainers with a Fender style guitar, a coffee mug, a hedgehog, and a book. The box says Toby Product Punk Action Figure and has a sticker that says Smashing Things Up Since 1978
LinkedIn notification saying several co-workers have played the daily Queens puzzle and I should join in.
Passage from Andy Grove talking about how historical data won’t usually help you when it comes to understanding the impact of emerging trends on your business.
45 rpm vinyl single of Going Fishing by The Original Knights
The X-Bomber spaceship from 1980s Japanese marionette TV series X-Bomber
Toby and Tolu presenting at the ProductTank Newcastle meetup
A young man with long hair wearing a tie-dyed Jimi Hendrix Experience t-shirt
The Bouncing Souls - Hopeless Romantic album cover
A bottle of hot sauce called Hot Sauce from Hell, Devil’s Revenge
Screenshot from the original Grand Theft Auto video game
Tumbleweed rolling on cracked desert rock
Me in a straw hat
The stoner kid from the movie Dazed and Confused
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe meme from bladerunner
Steve Buschemi in 30 Rock
Everybody love everybody quote from the movie Semi Pro
A young Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode