Cultivating Strong Product Culture
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The Massive AI Opportunity Hiding on Your Home Screen
Most 'AI products' aren't AI-native. Use the Home Screen Test to spot the billion-dollar opportunities hiding in plain sight.
APIs are the Strategic Foundation for Agentic AI and Beyond
APIs are not small. They are the backbone of digital growth and the foundation of agentic AI and MCP orchestration.
Jobs-to-be-Done - Demand Reducers and Systems Thinking
Explore the demand reducers in Jobs-to-be-Done—Inertia and Anxiety—and how systems thinking helps overcome hidden barriers to product adoption.
From Product-Led to Product-Agentic Growth in B2B
Product-Agentic Growth reframes how B2B software must evolve: AI agents doing work for users, reshaping PLG with autonomous workflows, predictive expansion, and real ROI.
GTM Playbook for Feature Products in the Platform and AI Era
A GTM playbook for feature products competing with platforms in the AI era, focused on delight, speed, and switching costs before the bundle arrives.
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ChatGPT Is Becoming the Interface
Sam Altman outlines how OpenAI plans to turn ChatGPT into the internet’s next interface, powered by apps, commerce, and global infrastructure growth.
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Notes on the Modern Product Leader’s Playbook
Notes on strategy, speed, and why modern product leadership is a leverage game.
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How I Scaled My Blog Archive with AI
How I built a scalable, AI-powered blog archive by learning GenAI coding constructs and focusing on product thinking, not syntax.
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OpenAI’s App Store Moment and the Future of Product Boundaries
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT app store redefines how users interact with products — shifting from interfaces to intent.
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From Competitive Moats to Collaborative Bridges
In the AI era, the strongest products don’t build walls — they build bridges. Here’s why connectivity, not isolation, defines modern defensibility.
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The Feedback Loop Fallacy in AI Products
AI feedback loops can lie. Learn why engagement metrics fail and how product managers can rebuild truth-centered measurement systems.
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Platform Products Need to Earn Their Keep
Platform products need empathy and accountability. Treat them like external products — measure impact, earn trust, and prove real value.
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Thinking Through Agentic Loops
Exploring how agentic loops extend feedback loops by adding autonomy, iteration, and goal-directed action in systems and AI.
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The Shift from SEO to AEO Is Redefining Visibility Online
The rise of answer engine optimization (AEO) marks a shift from SEO. Visibility in AI-driven answers is now the key to discovery.
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Sora 2 Changes the Video Play
Sora 2 pushes AI video into mainstream use. Here’s what it enables now, who gets disrupted, and why B2B teams should pay attention.
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Adaptability, Creativity, Tech Fluency: The Skills Defining Work Now
The core skills once seen as future-ready—adaptability, creativity, and tech fluency—are already defining how work gets done today.
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AI Platforms as the New Distribution Layer
OpenAI’s Instant Checkout turns ChatGPT into a commerce channel. Here’s what product managers need to know about AI-native distribution.
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The Factory Robot for Apps
Cloudflare’s VibeSDK acts like a factory robot for apps. It turns plain language into live software while teams stay focused on customer value.
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Level Up or Get Left Behind by AI
Walmart and Accenture show why AI is an existential risk for workers who don’t adapt, but also a chance to reinvent work for the better.
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Rethinking Product, Market, Channel, and Model for AI Era
How Brian Balfour’s Four Fits framework has been updated for the AI era, and what product leaders can learn from the shift.
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From Architect to Gardner to Orchestrator: The AI-era Product Leader
How AI transforms product leadership from building to conducting. The rise of the Orchestrator mindset in product management.
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What a Gigawatt of AI Really Means
What a gigawatt of AI really means, and how abundant intelligence could reshape technology, healthcare, and society.
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From Product-Led to Product-Agentic Growth in B2B
Product-Agentic Growth reframes how B2B software must evolve: AI agents doing work for users, reshaping PLG with autonomous workflows, predictive expansion, and real ROI.
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When Work Becomes the Practice
Moving beyond the search for meaning to the practice of creating it. A product manager's reflection on making work matter, one sprint at a time.
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The Massive AI Opportunity Hiding on Your Home Screen
Most 'AI products' aren't AI-native. Use the Home Screen Test to spot the billion-dollar opportunities hiding in plain sight.
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Platform vs Product: The AI Era Convergence
AI is collapsing the line between platforms and products. The winners will master both, balancing ecosystems and user experiences.
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Atlassian's Browser Move
Atlassian’s $610M bet on The Browser Company is bold. Here’s why it makes sense, and the big risks that could derail it.
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When to Trust Intuition vs. Metrics
Intuition is a compass, metrics are a map. Here’s how product managers can decide which to trust, depending on the product stage.
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AEO is the New SEO?
A quick look at Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), why it matters for both consumers and businesses, and how it differs from SEO.
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The Limit of Metrics
Metrics measure the present, but intuition imagines the future. Here’s why great product managers need both — and how to define intuition.
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Apple’s Sugar Water Trap
Apple’s iPhone 17 shows the sugar water trap risk as AI reshapes tech. A lesson for product managers on balancing incremental progress with bold bets.
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Outcomes Over Outputs For Real
How to make outcomes real, align cross-functional teams, and still give leaders confidence with a dual lens scorecard, DORA metrics, and probabilistic forecasts.
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Learning How to Learn Is Your Real Superpower
Learning how to learn is the real superpower for product managers. It’s not about speed, but reinvention, adaptability, and enjoying the process.
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Treat Your Job Like a Product and Protect Maker Time
Product leaders must treat their job like a product and protect maker time, or risk getting stuck in execution and missing leadership growth.
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The Hidden Cost of UX Friction in Enterprise Systems
Enterprise systems often rely on mandates, not UX. But small friction compounds into real business risk. Here’s why PMs can’t ignore it.
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Claude Now Builds Spreadsheets and Documents
Claude now generates real files—Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDFs—from prompts.
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One Question Every Product Manager Should Ask in Roadmap Reviews
A simple question can sharpen roadmap reviews: what will this feature replace in the user’s life? Here’s why the replacement lens matters.
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What Leadership Really Looks Like
Leadership for product managers isn’t about titles. It’s about daily choices—small acts of influence, initiative, empowerment, and courage.
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GTM Playbook for Feature Products in the Platform and AI Era
A GTM playbook for feature products competing with platforms in the AI era, focused on delight, speed, and switching costs before the bundle arrives.
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APIs are the Strategic Foundation for Agentic AI and Beyond
APIs are not small. They are the backbone of digital growth and the foundation of agentic AI and MCP orchestration.
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OpenAI’s GPT-realtime Brings a Step Forward in Voice AI
OpenAI’s GPT-realtime unifies voice AI into a single model. See why its technical leap and early adopters make this the moment voice AI goes mainstream.
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The Token Squeeze is Real
AI isn’t getting cheaper. Token demand is exploding, and flat-rate subscriptions are doomed. What pricing models can survive the squeeze?
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When AI Bots Rule the Web
AI crawlers dominate web traffic, but most don’t send users back. Here’s what product managers need to know about training bots, referrals, and strategy.
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Nano Banana and the Future of AI Image Editing
Google’s Nano Banana is redefining AI image editing. Here’s what it means for creativity, platforms, and trust in the digital age.
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What Makes a Real Data Moat
Data moats are the key to AI defensibility. Tesla and Stripe show what makes them real and how product teams can build them.