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AI
Where Product Managers Stop With AI (And the Level Above It)
Amazed, annoyed, building past it. Where product managers tend to stop with AI, why the second level feels like the end, and a quick check for which level your work is at.
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Career Development
Product Management Levels
The levels of product management, explained by the one question you own at each stage: is this worth building, how do I know I'm right, and will this still be right without me.
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Product management
The 16 essential rules of product management
The rules I keep coming back to after 11 years in product. Print it, pin it above your desk, argue with it.
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Career development
10 lessons from surviving a toxic workplace
You can't outwork a bad culture. Ten lessons on protecting your health, holding your boundaries, and knowing when leaving is the right call. Download the PDF and keep it for the day you need it.
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Stakeholder management
How Product Managers Say No (11 Phrases That Keep the Conversation Open)
Eleven ways to say no that find the real problem under the ask, make the cost visible, and keep people bringing you their best ideas.
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FREE PDF#6
Career development
Product Manager Career Path: The Trap at Every Level, From APM to CPO
The product manager career path from APM to CPO, with the trap at each level, the question that gets you out of it, and one thing to try this week.
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Product decision-making
The 6 Brutal Laws of Product (And the Question Each One Asks)
Pareto, Goodhart, Sturgeon, Conway, Kidlin and Brooks. Six laws that weren't written for product teams, and the planning question each one forces.
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Product management
10 Years of Product Advice in 60 Seconds (Build Less, Decide Better)
Ten years of product lessons, stripped back to one line: build less, decide better.
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FREE PDF#9
Product strategy
Product Strategy Starts With the Problem, Not the Tool
When every product problem gets the same answer, the tool has replaced your judgement. The order that protects the decision: problem, diagnosis, fix, tool.
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Product decision-making
The Missing Line in Your Agent Spec (Why Product Judgement Now Moves Earlier)
Most agent specs set one finish line. Agents need two: when the result is good enough, and when more work stops being worth the cost.
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FREE PDF#11
Leadership
Delegation for Product Managers: Hand Over the Task, Not the Call
There are two things you can hand a machine: the task and the call. They feel the same from the inside. A three-question test to tell them apart.
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Career development
Generalist vs Specialist Product Manager: Which One Gets Paid Now
You get paid for the decisions you're trusted with, not the work you can do. The five deciding skills that pay the most, each with one move.
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Product management
Generating Is Not Building: What Day 30 of Vibe Coding Tests
Vibe coding feels like building on day 1. Day 30 tests judgement. Four levels separate generating from building, and what to sort before you let it build.
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Product decision-making
How to Actually Build a Product: 12 Swaps That Turn a Feature Bet Into a Decision
Pendo found 6.4% of features get 80% of the clicks. Twelve swaps that turn "ship it and see" into a decision, plus the three lines to write before launch.
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Product decision-making
Two Kinds of People in Every Product Team Right Now
One talks about AI in meetings, one opens it before their first coffee. Why only the second builds the judgement a product team needs, plus a quick self-check.
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Product management
What Makes a Great Product Manager (It Isn't the List)
The short list is the insult, the long list is the truth. What the best product managers actually manage is the decisions behind the list.
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Stakeholder management
When Your CEO Has a Bad Idea: 7 Questions to Ask Before You Say No
Your CEO's bad idea usually isn't the real problem. Seven questions help you tell fear from insight, and answer with options instead of a no.
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Leadership
Every Question Only You Can Answer Is a KPI Problem
When every decision routes back to the product lead, the team is missing context. Six Keep People habits that let decisions get made without you.
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Product / AI era
Role Confusion: The One Product Decision AI Still Can't Make
AI made building cheap, so everyone started doing someone else's job. The one decision AI still can't make, and why owning it is the product manager's real job.
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Product management
Rebuild the Product Manager Job, Don't Just Do It Faster
Doing the same product job faster saves time. Rebuilding the job changes what you can see before every decision. Four parts to rebuild, and where to start.
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Stakeholder management
Your CEO Thinks AI Can Do Your Job (What Is Still Yours as a Product Manager)
When the CEO says "we need AI", someone has to answer: to do what? Why the product manager's job moved rather than vanished, and the one sentence that proves it.
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Career development
The Product Manager Interview Question That Shows If a Team Is Really Empowered
One interview question shows whether a product team is really empowered or just says so: when did evidence last change something already decided?
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Leadership
15 Subtle Traits of Great Product Leaders (The Habits That Stop Your Team Waiting on You)
Fifteen small habits that stop a team waiting on its leader, from planned disappointment to dissent memory. Check which ones you already run.
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Product decision-making
What to Put in a PRD Now AI Can Write It: The Lines That Show Your Judgement
AI made the PRD free. What to put in a PRD so it shows your judgement: three questions before you write, and four lines only you can add.
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FREE PDF#25
Product management
24 Harsh Truths of Product Management I Learnt the Hard Way
The hardest part of product management isn't the product. 24 harsh truths about decisions, money, ownership, evidence and your level, grouped by where they bite.
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Product decision-making
Product Experiments: Make the Smallest Bet That Answers the Question
AI made building cheap, but guessing never was. The five step product loop that turns a cheap build into evidence, and how to make the smallest useful bet.
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Product management
Remote Product Management: 12 Assumptions vs the Reality of the Work
Remote product work is not pyjamas and long breaks. Twelve common assumptions about remote product managers, set against what the work actually looks like.
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Product management
Customer Discovery for Product Managers: 5 Habits That Matter More Now Prototypes Are Cheap
Five customer discovery habits for product managers, from the outcome sentence before you prototype to reading real sessions before you trust evals.
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Career development
Product Manager Job Red Flags: 12 Signs a Role Won't Get You Promoted
Twelve signs a product manager job will keep you stuck for years, and the interview question that spots each one before you say yes to the offer.
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Product decision-making
Product Backlog Triage: 5 Free Skills That Sort the Small Calls So You Keep the Big Ones
Five free skills that use a judge model to sort tickets, feedback and requests one checkable call at a time, so the big product decisions stay with you.
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Career development
6 Types of Product Managers: Same Title, a Completely Different Job
You didn't lose your edge. You got a different job. Six product contexts, one title, and how to tell which job your product is handing you.
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Career Development
Product Manager vs AI Product Manager vs Product Builder
Three labels people treat as a ladder, and why they aren't one. One is what you own, one is what you work on, one is how you work, and you can be all three at once.
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Career development
Seniority in Product Management: What Gets Exposed When First Versions Get Cheap
When first versions get cheap, seniority in product management shows in three calls: which problem to commit to, what evidence counts, which trade-offs to own.
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Stakeholder management
How to Disagree With Leadership: 11 Questions That Change the Decision Without Losing Trust
Push back wrong and you're labelled. Push back right and they trust you more. Eleven lines product managers use to disagree with leadership and keep trust.
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FREE PDF#35
Leadership
Healthy Product Culture: 7 Rules That Let Your Team Make Good Calls Without You
Seven rules for a healthy product culture, from pricing every yes to giving away real decisions, learnt the hard way from keeping a brilliant know-it-all.
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Career development
77 Product and AI Creators to Follow on LinkedIn (A Free Way to Keep Learning)
77 product, AI, design, leadership and business creators worth following on LinkedIn. Pick a few in each group and let your feed teach you for free.
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FREE PDF#37
Leadership
The Product Leadership Paradox: Over-Protecting vs Over-Committing Your Team
Senior PMs get stuck between shielding the team and reassuring the business. The two traps, the tell for each, and how to redesign the middle so teams own more.
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FREE PDF#38
Product decision-making
13 Signs of High-Performing Product Managers (A Self-Check)
High-performing product managers often look like the problem. 13 operating principles to run as a self-check: which standards still hold under pressure?
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Stakeholder management
How to Push Back on Urgent Requests (11 Questions Product Managers Ask When Everything Is Urgent)
Eleven questions that sort real urgency from false urgency, so you can push back on urgent asks without looking like the blocker.
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Leadership
How to Run 1:1s That Build Decision-Makers (4 Questions and 10 Habits)
Four questions for Goals, Risks, Options and Way Forward, plus ten habits of strong 1:1s, so the meeting builds judgement instead of a status update.
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Career development
Product Manager With No Say on the Roadmap: 5 Tests to Win Back the Role
Handed a finished roadmap to comment on? Five tests a product manager can run to win back real decisions, or learn the org never planned to give them any.
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Leadership
Product Leadership Styles: The 4 Modes Great Leaders Switch Between (And When Each One Breaks)
Product leadership styles as four modes: Strategist, Coach, Guardian and Architect. What each adds, when to use it, when it breaks, and how to switch.
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Product metrics
The Museum of Meaningless Metrics: Build Numbers vs Customer Outcomes
Lines of code. Story points. Pull requests. Tokens spent. Every number a team reports with pride, and not one of them proves a customer's life got easier. Download the PDF and ask the same question of your own dashboard.
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Product decision-making
Product Manager Headaches: Why a Small Change Needs Product Judgement
One small change can eat a quarter. What a senior PM hears behind the request, and why the judgement that stops it is the hardest thing to prove.
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Product decision-making
Product Management Cheat Sheet: Judge the Thinking, Not Just the Result
A good result tells you it worked, not that the thinking was right. A cheat sheet for reviewing product decisions, and the one layer that compounds.
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Product management
The Invisible Work of Product Teams: 8 Jobs That Never Show on the Roadmap
Your roadmap shows what shipped and hides the work that keeps the product alive. Eight jobs product teams carry every week, and how to make each one count.
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Product decision-making
The 10 Tensions of Product (And How to Find the Ones Already Deciding for You)
Ten product trade-offs every team runs, most of them unnamed. How to spot each one, name the risk you are accepting, and know when to reopen the call.
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Career development
Product Manager Interviews and AI: Show the Setup, Not Just the Output
Banning AI in a product manager interview hides the thinking that matters. Four questions to make your AI setup and judgement visible in interviews and at work.
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Product management
Product Team Workflow: Automate What Happens After the Decision
Your product team has tools that work and a workflow that doesn't. Automate what happens after a decision with a four-part record and a revisit rule.
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Career development
How to Actually Get Promoted in Product (12 Things That Work, and 12 That Don't)
What gets product managers promoted, and what only feels like progress. Twelve moves that work, each with a real example, set against twelve that don't.
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