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Your admin screens need a journey
Fifteen screens, and nothing to tell you if you missed one.
Give your stopgaps an expiry date
Or they'll be there for years.
Fix the blind spot, not the bug
The hard part isn't fixing it. It's finding out it's there.
Strategy is your compass
Anyone can name the problem. A strategy is the decision you keep reaching for - the thing that tells you which way to go.
Your stakeholders don't read your PRDs
And that's your problem to solve, not theirs
A better product isn't always enough
Switching comes at a cost
AI lowers the bar to build. You still need to ask why.
How fast building leads to product debt
Can you still do your job without AI?
What do you do when you run out of tokens?
Don't be the PM who agrees with everyone
Constant agreement looks collaborative. It isn't.
Are you tracking the wrong metric?
You’re asked to track a metric.
How to be the PM people come to
Why you can't force influence - and what to do instead
The meeting that cancelled itself
Alignment isn't something you do in a room. It's the work you do before you get there.
When to remove features from your product
We spend a lot of time deciding what to add. We rarely think about what to remove.
When to stop talking to the AI, and start building
Is prompt drift slowing you down?
Automating ticket creation is solving the wrong problem
I keep hearing about PMs creating AI automation to write tickets.
AI won't save a blurry vision
On pressure, vision, and why speed isn't the answer.
Claude Design doesn't make you a designer, any more than Figma does
In December 2023, Brian Chesky announced that Airbnb had eliminated its product management function.
Roadmap sessions: Show what you've done
Don’t just show what’s coming.
A Prototype is Worth a Thousand Slides
You’ve written the document, explained the idea, and walked through the user journey step by step.