Category: Product Strategy
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AI Can’t Build your Moat (Hopefully)
AI doesn’t eliminate developer positions, it makes them more critical — because now they should focus most of their effort on building your moat.
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AI Character Building
When your software approaches the realm of not-quite-human, it needs a not-quite-human personality. This new generation of AI-driven chat interfaces comes with a curious side effect. As chatbots start sounding more human, we ‘actual humans’ often assume they can think the way we do. If someone asks a large language…
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Do We Know How to Win?
Chances are, you’ve seen this vision statement before: “We will be the leading global provider of ____________ to _____________.” Sometimes it’s dressed up with fancier words, or more qualifiers. But, at their core, many vision statements are simply saying, “we’re SOOOO going to win this market”. Look, there’s nothing wrong…
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Putting the ‘Objective’ in OKR
“We have to find a way to fit this project in this quarter. It’s the most important one on the board.” “Where is that coming from? We’ve been hearing from our customers that we need to invest in these 3 key features — we’ve got those at the top of…
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Staying Grounded
“Are you a capital-P Product Manager, or a lowercase-p product manager?” I wasn’t sure how to take the question at first — I’d never really considered my capitalization identity before. “I worked with a product manager once,” my co-worker continued, “he made a bunch of noise about our vision and…
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