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Product Management

Insights into product development, management strategies, and the evolving role of product managers. Examines how products are conceived, built, launched, and refined, especially in technology companies.

Product Managers, Stop Carrying Water for Your AI

You paste in Slack threads, Jira tickets, meeting notes. The AI writes something great. But you spent an hour gathering context so it could spend ten seconds synthesizing. You're doing the grinding. It's having the fun. That doesn't feel right.

One Document, Every Touchpoint

I distilled how I talk about my work into a single positioning doc, then used Claude Code to propagate it across my website, LinkedIn, and scheduling page in an afternoon. The friction of keeping your positioning in sync is gone, and that changes how often you're willing to do it.

Own the Outcome

Product management has always been about ownership. Now you have the tools to actually exercise it. Everyone's on the growth team. Form hypotheses, ship, learn, iterate. The velocity that required dedicated resources is now yours.

Product Management is Dead?

A lot has been written about the death of product management. Let me be clear: the core of what we do will continue, while the tactical elements transform. This shift will empower those who've been focused on the craft rather than making them obsolete. Product management connects today&

Can Google and Gemini Catch Up to Their Own Potential?

AI: Where the Big Fish Might Just Get Bigger Many people predict that AI will be a space where the rich get richer. Incumbents have the data and the capital to do the expensive work of training models. They also have the applications that AI can be applied to. Startups

Beyond the Bot: Rethinking AI Interfaces

I had a great conversation with some entrepreneurs today. They're using AI to build something new, and it got me thinking about how we interact with technology. We touched on an interesting point: people don't really have good associations with chat interfaces in products. Think about