Executives only ask three questions about your opportunity: - Is it big enough to matter? - How is it different from today’s business? - Why now, not later? If you don’t prep for these, your idea never makes it past “interesting.”

I miss the days when the Silicon Valley was filled with idealism and trying to make the world a better place — not just for the shareholders.

What if AI amounts to just a 10x search engine? It is still powerful and useful, just with more limited use cases than the hype. Increasingly I am finding that the value is very situational: compile data, quick review, repeatable task or if quantity matters more than quality. Google 2.0. WDYT?

Some of the best product solutions come from observing what your customers are doing despite not being officially enabled. eBay Motors, its 1st $1B category, came from this observation after Simon Rothman saw a car listed for sale. Before it was assumed to be a crazy idea. Love this @bsky.app!

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Reposting including with one I have: go.bsky.app/AYJR3Gm

Most strategies don’t die in the boardroom. They die in Jira. Lists coordinate. Loops adapt. Here’s how to keep your strategy alive: medium.com/thrivve-part...

Disappointing at how many product thought leaders seem not to be on Bluesky, including many who remain active on X. 1. Encourage people to post here, instead of -- or at least in addition to -- X. 2. As people move over & for any I've missed, please let me know so I can add to the starter pack.

Perfect plans don’t survive first contact with reality. But lightweight, adaptive plans do. Mark progress. Set experiments. Then adjust fast. Your anchor is always what customers are already doing with the product. Stop defending the “right plan.” Start iterating on the next useful one.

A senior dev at a FAANG company shares how they use AI for production code, achieving a ~30% productivity boost. The process involves writing solid design docs, heavily peer reviewing them and then using AI to accelerate writing tests & code as well as helping with code reviews.

Start with customer need, break into its root causes & see where metrics or research do/don't support if this is an important priority. If you are structured the potential features, priorities and iterations become significantly easier to come up with. Much better vs. random idea generation.

Interesting read about Cursor's product-market fit, which could apply to similar AI startups docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If your most effective management skill is insisting people work 80 hours a week, you might want to consider learning some new management skills.

At a first read of the GPT-5 models initial analyses, there are to me a few things that jump out: 1. Hybrid system that has a router for different models 2. ⁠Not a dramatic leap 3. ⁠Writing, code, health 4. Prices Let’s do a deeper dive…

Drive from Chicago to Minneapolis with my 12 year old daughter. This means listening to the entire Taylor Swift discography from start to finish. Tim McGraw onwards. Won’t quite finish round trip, but will cover a lot. I think this is the 6th time we will have done this…

Latest example of needing to look beyond averages: • 12 year old got permission from my wife to sleep over at a friend's house AND also separately from me • 16 year old is on an educational trip • 18 year old just stayed out • On average, each of my 3 kids have permission 1.0x Perfect, right?

Hey 👋 - I'm running a survey, "The State of B2B Product Management 2025", to try to work out what's going on out there. Please fill it out if you have a few spare minutes, and share with any friends or frenemies! b2bproduct.io/state-of-b2b...

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 (𝟮𝟮𝘅) | 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 | 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗯, 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗯𝗻𝗯, 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗺, 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝗹𝗮 & 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 Product vision examples typically come in 4 different formats • 𝟭 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: A short, clear sentence that sums up what the product aims to do 1/5

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

I was reflecting recently on how stark the differences between teams can be and how often you can pick up on those differences within seconds. You can feel it. The words they use are different. The way they describe their work tells you almost everything. cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-364-th...

How is a CPO role different from a VP role? Firstly, this is a 𝗕𝗜𝗚 step up. At least as big as IC → people manager. Don't underestimate it. What makes it such a big change? Let's run through 6× key aspects. 🧵1/9

Most product teams are flying blind 🎯 The vast majority of features don't meet their goals, yet teams use processes that presume success and rarely measure results. New article on overconfidence in product results + a fun confidence test to check your own judgment. Link below 👇

This seems like a bad idea, especially for a company with a 3.3 rating on GlassDoor... Maybe instead they need to value HR more? www.linkedin.com/posts/ryanbr...

I meant to post this from my personal account. Reposting. While I'm doing this I should also call out @chiprodalliance.bsky.social who helped support this. The group is on a roll since being "inspired" to form after a @martycagan.bsky.social event last fall. Follow us to catch these in the future!

I had the privilege of hosting/attending @johncutle.fish's Chicago ProductTank event Thursday. A favorite quote: "Change is about people negotiating with their self-identity." So much of product work is helping people navigate uncertainty, not just mechanics. Thanks for the wisdom and warmth, John!

Happy to share I was on the @invinciblecareer.com podcast with @larrycornett.coach. The theme is "Expertise on Demand - Is a Fractional Role in Your Business Future?" though we discussed a bunch of other topics. Enjoy! substack.com/home/post/p-...

For those in the Chicago product community, June will be a big month for events -- starting tonight. Agentic AI PM: Demystifying the AI Buzz with MAHESH YADAV Hosted by ProductTank Chicago 📅 TODAY/June 3, 4-5:30 PM 📍 Virtual 🔗 www.meetup.com/producttank-... #justproduct

Great tips on delegation from David Jesse. I'd love to hear tips from others. What strategies have worked for you?

I spoke with @jozeran.bsky.social from @tempusai.bsky.social for the Products That Count Product Talk podcast. The theme was building high-impact product teams through disciplined leadership and customer focus 🎙️ 1/2

Random appeal to those in tech: be specific about the function of product management vs. product teams. Almost no product gets built by a PM alone, but typically as part of a triad with design and engineering. Design = product design. There is even such a term as a product engineer.* 1/3

Nice piece from @cwodtke.bsky.social eleganthack.com/metrics-are-...

Happy World Product Day to those who celebrate. www.mindtheproduct.com/world-produc... If you are in Chicago, hope to see you at the event tonight with Erik Metelka on building an experimentation culture! @chiprodalliance.bsky.social www.meetup.com/producttank-...

When you're scheduled to deploy once a week but the deployment takes more than a week that's called continuous delivery

📊 Too Many Metrics: The Product Team's Dilemma I've seen product teams track too many metrics & wonder why they can't make good decisions. I share how to build a focused metrics framework to connect feature usage to meaningful outcomes. www.buildcrescendo.com/blog/too-man... #justproduct

Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...

🚨🎶S.F. Jazz just dropped a love note to the internet, a couple of thousand recordings from their archives. 🎶 🚨 I’ve started sort of relaxed, with Joe Henderson doing Porgy and Bess, but I suspect I can spend many hours browsing this. archive.org/details/sfjazz

Strong lineup of Chicago events: Eric Metelka: Building an Experimentation Culture 📅 May 21 lnkd.in/gxEn2-Yt Mahesh Yadav Agentic AI PM: Demystifying the AI Buzz 📅 Jun 3 lnkd.in/g2_Q_-wK John Cutler The Beautiful Mess of PM 📅 Jun 12 lnkd.in/giqQK6FD @chiprodalliance.bsky.social #justproduct

Is your product team greater than the sum of its parts? Research shows team dynamics predict performance better than individual talent. A few key attributes separate true teams from mere groups. Read what these are and how you can develop them: www.buildcrescendo.com/blog/collect... #justproduct

Addresses value vs. usability in clear terms — Slack wasn’t yet released when he wrote this! “When you want something really bad, you will put up with a lot of flaws. But if you do not yet know you want something, your tolerance will be much lower.” Thanks @jmspool.bsky.social! #justproduct

Glad they referenced this Harrison Metal video: www.harrisonmetal.com/library/drak... Jessica Lachs gives a great talk on identifying value drivers, a similar idea. m.youtube.com/watch?v=K3TI... Finally @ttunguz.bsky.social writes about this in his great book Winning With Data.

Excited that @johncutle.fish will be doing a keynote in Chicago next month. Hope to see you there. www.meetup.com/producttank-... #justproduct @chiprodalliance.bsky.social @crescendoprodgroup.bsky.social

Disappointing at how many product thought leaders seem not to be on Bluesky, including many who remain active on X. 1. Encourage people to post here, instead of -- or at least in addition to -- X. 2. As people move over & for any I've missed, please let me know so I can add to the starter pack.

I would like to find more product related content on Bluesky as a substitute for unnamed sites I used to frequent. Who else should be on this list? Please mention them if their posts frequently touch upon product, PM, UX design, engineering, tech innovation, etc. I will add. go.bsky.app/AYJR3Gm

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

if you’re getting pushback from engineering saying “but that wasn’t in the spec” you’ve got a lot bigger problems than it not being in the spec

A friendly reminder, from a teacher: Reward the behavior you want to see. Even if it's not when you wanted it. Even if it's not as great as you were hoping for. Even if the person who's doing it metaphorically shat the bed before.

Like in PM, understanding the needs of the user just a little better — including asking the right question — can lead to breakthroughs in design and results. Even bays have room for innovation. “Ultimately, it just takes people asking the right questions and being willing to be forward thinking.”

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist