If you’re already above average as a product person, the Henry Ford quote does more harm than good. The quote comes from a good place, but m...

-Indeed, average product builders should likely talk more to users -But most of the top 20% product builders are already talking to users e...

Do you work with anyone who largely seems to be using AI performatively and everyone on the team knows this but no one wants to say it out l...

Something that’s changed rapidly in the past year: Product Managers who’ve historically viewed their role as “my main job is to execute” ar...

This happens to smart people because of: 1. Deep-rooted identity of “I am good at product” (vs. “I am good at winning” or something like th...

Periodic reminder: the more you love building products, the greater the odds that you have this bias.

New video in the career series: how to reverse interview a company and assess the quality of talent at a company: https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Most mid-career product people who are doing reasonably well make 2 implicit assumptions that affect their quality of life: 1. the ceiling ...

If you work on products: How would you rate the Taste of your closest colleague who also shapes product decisions & direction? (compared to...

This is also true in tech careers. A lot of people I speak with are successful by every conventional metric, but they find it difficult to d...

PSA: in case you missed this list of videos when I shared them last week — I’ve since added 3 new videos on the channel. These videos are f...

If you have clarity of thought on a topic (which comes via authentic experience & understanding), writing it without AI - anything, a blog p...

Just published a new in-depth video. How to Get Promoted: https://youtu.be/2dkbuOSQoAM

New video: How senior PM leadership interviews actually work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efO73UQUHCo

I’ve recently released a bunch of career-related videos on YT but haven’t shared any of them here on X. So here they are (sorted by views). ...

This is an important point in product too. Product teams are using AI to get to higher volumes of answers and prototypes but many of them ar...

Zoom (unsurprisingly) heavily promoting its AI notetaker. If you’ve used it, how’s your experience been?

Somewhere along the way, Claude was told to “confidently assert what you think is good for the user even if they don’t ask, assume the user ...

I am increasingly finding the need to buy certain books within Claude / ChatGPT so it can use the book for context when I ask it to. Making ...

“effective AI engineering requires having product sense and understanding business context and customer goals, so you can participate in sha...