Adam Kalsey

This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.

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Spammers love me

17 Dec 2006

Deane sent me a screenshot of some comment spam he got. The spam was on a blog mentioning some of my previous comment spam fighting.

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The URL in the spam was freehosting1.net, a site that I’ve complained about to their upstream providers a few times.

I guess I made an impact.

Recently Written

AI writing is intolerable. I'm trying to fix it.
Nov 13: "Delve" is the least of it. It's too long and hard to follow. I built open-source skills for Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok that fix that.
The Pumpkin Talks Back
Nov 6: I gave my flaming jack-o'-lantern a voice, a camera, and a personality, and let it insult trick-or-treaters for six hours.
A Skills Wheel for Product Designers
Oct 18: I love Petra Wille's PM Wheel for product managers. I couldn't find an equivalent for designers, so I built one.
Where Does Product Marketing Belong?
Mar 6: The debate about whether PMM reports to product or marketing has a simple answer once you ask the right question.
The Rise of Vertical Software
Feb 15: AI makes execution cheap. Deep industry knowledge becomes the real moat.
Using Chatbots as a Tutor
Feb 11: A prompt that turns your LLM chatbot into a custom tutor.
How to Interview Product Managers
Nov 9: Most people never learned to interview, so when thrust into hiring a product manager they ask bad questions. Here's how to ask better ones, with lots of examples of real questions.
AI as Your Strategic Thinking Partner
Oct 12: AI becomes a lens on your own logic. It doesn’t replace your judgment—it sharpens it. By asking questions you wouldn’t think to ask yourself, it turns private reasoning into something visible and testable.

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