# product leader (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover product leader. Page: Feed: --- ## [Tokenmaxxing And Return-On-Tokens](https://labs.adaline.ai/p/tokenmaxxing-return-on-tokens) _2026-08-15 · Nilesh Barla · Adaline Labs_ Learn why AI teams are moving from tokenmaxxing to cost per accepted outcome, and how product leaders and engineers should allocate AI intelligence efficiently. ## [Designing Better Working Relationships](https://www.bringthedonuts.com/essays/designing-better-working-relationships/) _2026-08-11 · Bring the Donuts – Ken Norton_ Being intentional about how we relate with coworkers - Some years ago, I was in session with a newish client. This leader was expressing their frustration with a peer. This off-screen co-worker—I’ll call him Jacob—had been a frequent topic in our first few coaching sessions. Jacob and this leader were like oil and water, and the two seemed to... ## [How The Product Role Is Moving To Building And Verification](https://labs.adaline.ai/p/product-role-building-verification) _2026-08-08 · Nilesh Barla · Adaline Labs_ As AI speeds up execution, product leaders must focus more on product verification, evidence, judgment, and what is worth shipping. ## [Eval-First Product Design For Frontier AI Products](https://labs.adaline.ai/p/eval-first-product-design-frontier-ai-products) _2026-07-31 · Nilesh Barla · Adaline Labs_ Eval-first product design treats the evaluation suite as the product specification. A five-move operating pattern for frontier AI PMs. ## [What Product Leaders Should Stop Doing Now That AI Can Do It](https://labs.adaline.ai/p/what-product-leaders-should-stop-doing) _2026-07-25 · Nilesh Barla · Adaline Labs_ A practical framework for removing low-leverage work without outsourcing judgment. ## [What Is An Agentic Stack, And Why Does It Matter More Than the Model?](https://labs.adaline.ai/p/what-is-an-agentic-stack) _2026-07-18 · Nilesh Barla · Adaline Labs_ An agentic stack routes work, controls context, permissions, verification, and approval, and matters more than the model powering it. ## [What Is Loop Engineering, and Who Owns It?](https://labs.adaline.ai/p/what-is-loop-engineering-for-ai-agent) _2026-07-11 · Nilesh Barla · Adaline Labs_ The loop engineer owns an AI agent's runtime. Three primitives, five maturity levels, and where the role emerges inside production teams. ## [Agent Replay Is A Product Surface, Not A Debugging Feature](https://labs.adaline.ai/p/agent-replay-product-surface) _2026-07-04 · Nilesh Barla · Adaline Labs_ Agent replay for production AI agents: what to capture in every trace, who it serves, and why to design it in from day one. ## [The Long-Horizon AI Agents Ceiling Is A Product Problem](https://labs.adaline.ai/p/long-horizon-ai-agents-planning-ceiling) _2026-06-27 · Nilesh Barla · Adaline Labs_ The planning ceiling for long-horizon AI agents is real and moving slowly. Five product moves now bypass it, including embeddings-as-memory for guardrail adherence. ## [The Self-Improving Agent Is A Production Pattern Now](https://labs.adaline.ai/p/self-improving-ai-agent-production-pattern) _2026-06-20 · Nilesh Barla · Adaline Labs_ The self-improving AI agent is a real production pattern now. What agentic harness engineering is, and the five layers that build one. ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7Wvan6lLSSMw) _2026-06-20 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [Chat Is the Wrong Default for AI Products](https://labs.adaline.ai/p/post-chat-interface-ai-products) _2026-06-13 · Nilesh Barla · Adaline Labs_ Why the chatbox became the default AI interface, the four patterns replacing it in 2026, and a three-question diagnostic for your product. ## [Best Books for Product Managers \[2026\]](https://www.bringthedonuts.com/essays/books-for-product-managers.html) _2026-01-07 · Bring the Donuts – Ken Norton_ Essential product management reading - Updated for 2026. There are lots of excellent books about product management and product leadership, but these are the 44 books I d consider essential to any PM’s bookshelf. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making By: Tony Fadell Tony Fadell brought us the iPod and then went on... ## [Let’s stop the product management artifact fetishism](https://www.juliandunn.net/2025/07/30/lets-stop-the-product-management-artifact-fetishism/) _2025-07-31 · Julian Dunn · Julian Dunn's Blog_ I’ve noticed an increasing obsession in product management circles on the creation and maintenance of artifacts. I recently read a LinkedIn post from Janna Bastow, co-founder of ProdPad, with a “definitive list” of product documentation that PMs are presumably meant to be responsible for: There are also more books than ever on creating artifacts, such \[ \] The post Let s stop the product management… ## [A How to Hire a Product Manager Retrospective](https://www.bringthedonuts.com/essays/how-to-hire-a-pm-retrospective/) _2025-06-09 · Bring the Donuts – Ken Norton_ My perspective twenty years later - That's me in the JotSpot office in Palo Alto, Summer 2005, a few months before we were acquired by Google. This is my retrospective on my classic essay, How to Hire a Product Manager, originally written on its tenth anniversary in 2015 and updated on its twentieth anniversary in 2025.... ## [Why Great Leaders Embrace Humor and Playfulness](https://www.bringthedonuts.com/essays/why-great-leaders-embrace-humor-and-playfulness/) _2025-05-05 · Bring the Donuts – Ken Norton_ The case for humor, play, and letting go - Gregg Popovich. Photograph by Soobum Im, USA TODAY Sports Gregg Popovich, the legendary basketball coach, has retired from coaching and will be moving into a new role as the San Antonio Spurs president of basketball operations. I have long been a fan of Coach Pop, who has led his teams... ## [Product Leadership is Lonely](https://www.bringthedonuts.com/essays/product-leadership-is-lonely.html) _2025-04-10 · Bring the Donuts – Ken Norton_ Why this job feels so isolating and what you can do about it - Product leadership is lonely. While you may be surrounded by other people, it often feels like there’s no one to turn to who really gets what you’re up against. You don’t have other product peers to commiserate with anymore, like you had earlier in your career (and lower down the... ## [The Power of Not Knowing](https://www.bringthedonuts.com/essays/power-of-not-knowing.html) _2025-04-02 · Bring the Donuts – Ken Norton_ Embracing uncertainty by confronting our inner stories - I don’t know. When were you last willing to say that in front of your team? How does it make you feel to even consider saying that? For most leaders, saying, “I don’t know,” is terrifying. We’re led to believe that great leaders always have the answer. Admitting uncertainty feels... ## [Storytelling for Product Leaders](https://www.bringthedonuts.com/essays/storytelling-for-leaders.html) _2025-01-29 · Bring the Donuts – Ken Norton_ Learning to be a better storyteller in the workplace - My coaching clients often ask for help becoming better storytellers, one of the most important skills for product leaders. What follows is everything I’ve collected over the years. My number one recommendation is to become a better story consumer. Read fiction, comic books, children’s books, fairy tales, and folktales. Watch... ## [Zoom won’t be the winner of the videoconferencing wars](https://www.juliandunn.net/2024/11/05/zoom-wont-be-the-winner-of-the-videoconferencing-wars/) _2024-11-06 · Julian Dunn · Julian Dunn's Blog_ In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was first forced to use Google Meet to speak with a few teams, I was seriously underwhelmed. The reason was quite simple: the product barely worked. I’m not talking about weaknesses in fringe features but literally, the audio and video did not work reliably. Although my regular \[ \] The post Zoom won’t be the winner of the videoconferencing wars…