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Kaarina Mikalson
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On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later I’d done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...
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Why your own messy notes still beat a tidy AI summary
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So cool to hear Kaarina talk about how the MoTaverse has helped her build a vocabulary and ask questions to learn more broadly. 🤩
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Lurking sounds a bit creepy. But in the MoTaverse we embrace it. Lurkers are observation workers. Lurkers want to see what a community is about. Lurking is a form of community participati...
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Kaarina explores how a highly skilled tester’s sense of ā€œthis is a problemā€ often diverges from what real users experience as a problem. And what is the scarcity mindset?
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Deciding what really matters can be hard, yet it doesn't have to be that way
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