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AI in Product Management
AI is moving fast in product management, from PRDs to prototypes. Here’s what research shows, what’s missing, and how PMs can lead.
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Agentic Browsers Meet Their Hardest Test: Security
Agentic browsers face significant security risks, such as prompt injection, but early defenses demonstrate why security will be the true differentiator.
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Product Culture Is Your Real Operating System
Strong product culture drives better decisions, innovation, and outcomes. Leaders shape it daily through hiring, rituals, and behaviors.
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The Big Squeeze in B2B and the Challenge of Lasting Defensibility
In B2B, escape velocity isn’t enough. Startups must turn rapid distribution into lasting defensibility before incumbents close the window.
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Curiosity Beats Tenure in the Age of AI
Junior developers’ curiosity and adaptability make them the most AI-native talent. Cutting them now risks weakening future innovation.
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Agentic AI Needs APIs to Act
Agentic AI can reason, but it needs APIs to act. APIs are the execution layer that makes AI autonomy real.
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No New Ideas in AI? The Power and Limits of Data
A critique of the idea that AI progress is only about data, exploring the role of algorithms and human creativity alongside new datasets.
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Why Customer Success Belongs at the Start of Product Strategy
Shift-left Customer Success by embedding it early in product strategy, design, and GTM to boost retention and drive SaaS growth.
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Observability Now Includes Watching AI
AI observability means monitoring accuracy, drift, and hallucinations, not just uptime. PMs must treat it as a core product feature.
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Fixing Google SEO Indexing Issues with ClaudeCode
Fixed Google SEO indexing issues using ClaudeCode by adding canonicals, updating the sitemap, and cleaning redirects—no SEO expertise required.
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Why Empathy, Not IQ, Defines Success in the AI Age
Empathy and critical thinking—not IQ—are the keys to thriving as a product leader in the AI era.
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Build, Buy, or AI-Build
Vibe-coding opens a new AI-build path, but Marty Cagan’s point on business rules shows its limits. Can AI ever capture this hidden and complex logic?
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Vibe-Coding Is Early But Already Changing SaaS
Vibe-coding is still early, but already empowers non-technical builders while pressuring SaaS vendors to deliver leverage beyond features.
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How Product Leaders Can Adapt and Thrive in the AI Era
Practical playbooks for product leaders to adapt and thrive in the AI era using wedge expansion, jobs-to-be-done, and dual transformation.
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The Informal Committees Behind B2B Buying
B2B buying isn’t decided by end users alone. Informal committees shape decisions, and product managers must map their jobs-to-be-done.
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Why Startups Struggle and Giants Stall in the AI Era
Why AI disruption challenges startups and giants while firms with product market fit adapt faster, explained through proven strategy frameworks.
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Making Product Decisions with a Bets Mindset
How leading product teams use betting principles to make smarter decisions, test ideas fast, and adapt quickly to real-world results.
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Start with Product and Target for Effective Distribution, Not Channel
Learn why smart product managers match channels to product and target, not trends, with a simple hospital software example.
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AI Risks to SaaS Companies
Generative + Agentic AI is accelerating feature commoditization; read the room and adapt.
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Product Managers Who Think in Systems Will Survive the AI Era
AI is reshaping product management. Learn how to map, optimize, and automate your systems before someone else does it for you.
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The Power of an Anchor - Warby Parker's Pricing Strategy
Warby Parker's playbook for product managers. Learn how the company uses pricing strategy, vertical integration, and innovation to grow.
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From Promise to Practice - AI's Real Impact on Medicine
Real-world data on AI in medicine. Where it works (imaging, drug discovery), why it fails (data, integration), and what actually drives adoption.
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When AI Becomes Your Medical Translator
How AI LLMs are transforming healthcare by empowering patients with PhD-level medical knowledge and reshaping the entire industry ecosystem.
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The Winner's Curse: Rhyming History in the AI Era
Why AI disruption differs from past paradigm shifts: faster cycles, probabilistic computing, and why today's tech winners face an accelerating curse.
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Vibe Coding and Test-driven Development
Vibe-coding coolness
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Architect vs. Gardner: Product Development Mindsets
Product leaders must know when to act as Architects and when to act as Gardeners. Learn how to balance precision and adaptability in product development.
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Modernizing the Product Requirements Process
PRDs aren’t dead—they’re evolving. Learn how to modernize product requirements with outcome focus, living documents, and AI-powered prototyping.
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How to Make OKRs Work
Practical tips to make OKRs work: writing strong objectives, measurable key results, and avoiding common pitfalls in execution.
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Cultivating Strong Product Culture
Learn how to cultivate a strong product culture by empowering teams, aligning leadership, and focusing on outcomes over features.
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Cultivating True Agile: From Process to Outcome
Agile is not stand-ups or sprints. Learn how to cultivate true agility by focusing on outcomes, empowering teams, and decentralizing decisions.
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Love the Problem, Solution will Follow
Fall in love with the problem, not the solution. Learn seven techniques to uncover customer needs and build products that create lasting impact.
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Why OKRs Matter
Learn why OKRs matter, how they align teams, and the four superpowers that make them a proven framework for execution.
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Beyond the Deliverable - The Strategic Product Mindset
Learn how to move beyond delivery and adopt a strategic product mindset with practical steps, proven frameworks, and customer-first thinking.
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Making Better Product Decisions
Great product leaders know not all decisions are equal. Learn how to apply the one-way vs. two-way door lens to improve decision speed and quality.
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Defeat Bias: Build Products that Truly Matter
Learn how to defeat confirmation bias in product management with eight practical techniques to improve decisions and build products that truly matter.
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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.
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Jobs-to-be-Done and the Forces that Create Product Demand
Learn how Jobs-to-be-Done explains the forces that create product demand—Push and Pull—and why progress, not features, drives adoption.
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The Questions Great Product Leaders Ask
Great product leaders don’t rely on perfect foresight. They ask sharper questions that cut through ambiguity and lead to better decisions.