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TL;DR Marty Cagan argues AI changes product work in two distinct ways: adding AI to a product, and using AI to change how the product is built2.
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“May I present to you: The Standard-Setter. The Standard-Setter’s superpower is failing upward while confusing pressure with motivation. They believe everyone has another gear, and that their job is to force people into it.”
Shreyas Doshi announces a new resource: a playlist of 23 candid video answers to career questions and dilemmas submitted by readers. The announcement frames the content as blunt and practical, aimed at ambitious…
The essay opens with an anecdote about a journalist's first impressions of a notable figure, using it as a jumping-off point to ask what humans should use their minds for as AI takes on more cognitive work. It frames…
Of course, enabling product success has always been the main job of a PM. Execution, while essential (by definition), was never the main job of a PM. Proof: This is a tweet I had sent in the pre-generative AI era:
John Cutler outlines ten career traps that thoughtful people, including capable product and tech professionals, tend to fall into. The core argument is that good intentions and strong work ethic can quietly steer…
Marty Cagan argues that the current trend of cutting managers in favor of pure individual-contributor builders is a temporary phase rather than the future. He restates the principle that experts lead experts: effective…
Something that’s changed rapidly in the past year: Product Managers who’ve historically viewed their role as “my main job is to execute” are finding it way harder to get hired at top companies than those who’ve viewed their role as “my main job is to make the product successful”
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Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast.
Product discovery coach, author of Continuous Discovery Habits; writes Product Talk.
Founder of Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) and author of Inspired, Empowered and Transformed.
Co-founder of Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics and FYI; writes about product, SaaS and customer research.
Product leader (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo) and advisor known for frameworks on product sense and…
Co-founder and CEO of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY), co-author of Rework and Shape Up's home company.
Author of Escaping the Build Trap, founder of Produx Labs and Product Institute.
Former VP of Product Design at Facebook, author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
Product sense is a learnable skill, not a fixed gift, and the sources agree on building it through deliberate immersion in customers and products. Jules Walter argues it…
Read the answer →Q:The sources agree that a product strategy is your plan for making the product vision real, not a feature list or a spec. Start by deciding what matters most and being…
Read the answer →Q:An empowered product team is a cross-functional team given problems to solve rather than features to build, and held accountable for outcomes. Marty Cagan defines it by…
Read the answer →Q:A startup should raise its prices earlier and more often than most teams do, because founders tend to underprice and rarely revisit price. Patrick Campbell puts it…
Read the answer →Q:Great product managers, per these sources, are judged by business outcomes and value/viability ownership rather than feature output or backlog administration. Marty…
Read the answer →Q:The sources agree that the North Star Metric is tied to strategy rather than being just a dashboard number. Lenny Rachitsky frames it as your strategy, and his guide…
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