*screaming in #ProductBoard*
#productmanagement
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Today is the day before I write my weekly newsletter, so of course Brave chooses today to roll out an update that obliterates all of my open tabs by combining "redundant" "inactive" ones. And then automatically opts every user into this feature.
I had a few Mastodon tabs open, now they are just one tab that points to mastodon.social.
So, uhh...anyone write anything good on #Product / #UX topics that they want me to feature this week? 
A week later, I’m still reflecting on Product at Heart 2025.
Arne said: “Curation is one of our most powerful tools of resistance.”
That hit home. I’ve been operating in dark mode - focused on flaws. This reminded me why I love product: We amplify what matters.
Personal Blog of Patrick Sauerwein · Product at Heart 2025: My Key Takeaways from Hamburg ConferenceAs someone who’s become a regular attendee of Product at Heart in Hamburg, I find myself returning year after year for the same compelling reasons: deepening my product management knowledge, …
I'm reading, "Creating radically good products, sparking radically good change"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creating-radically-good-products-sparking-change-sian-murray-huynh-o7vse by @sianmurrayhuynh published 30 June 2025.
www.linkedin.comCreating radically good products, sparking radically good changeHello folks, something shiny and new for you ✨ Thanks to the wonderful Fran Cook and Laura Malan I have a beautiful new website! It sets out my stall for a people & planet focused way of doing digital and product development. If you believe as I do, that we need to sharpen our critical thinking skil
The Hovercar Framework for Deliberate Product Design, by @leaverou:
lea.verou.me · The Hovercar Framework for Deliberate Product Design • Lea VerouMany teams start with the MVP. But what if the key to shipping great products wasn’t starting small — but starting big? Could great products start at the finish line?
Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM #AI #UXDesign #UX #Design #Tech #userresearch #productmanagement #product
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/can-designers-avoid-meetings-d6d3
The Product PicnicCan Designers Avoid Meetings?LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.
New blog post: a cross-functional brainstorming exercise I love to run as a PM! https://melanie-richards.com/blog/opportunity-solution-alignment/
OSAs are a great way to uncover compelling ideas and build a team’s shared sense of ownership in the work. #product #productManagement
Melanie RichardsOpportunity-Solution AlignmentAlign your cross-functional team on important customer opportunities, and generate creative solutions to these opportunities
Companies should stop treating AI as a feature, because it's not. It's a tool. For some use cases it's quite good, and others not at all useful.
Advertising your product or service as AI-enabled, or having AI... is not especially useful. Let's go back and talk about outcomes. What does your "thing" do, what does it help users achieve?
If you do that through "AI", hand waving, or if you've used Pascal to develop it, or running your backend on serverless infrastructure ... just doesn't matter. You may think it's cool and all, but from a user perspective it's worthless information.
An engineer recently sent me some questions about the #productmanagement role. I took a long time to respond because I saw it as a great opportunity to reflect on the role and what it means to me. I decided to share my answers here, in case it’s useful for anyone else!
Elezea by Rian van der Merwe · Product Management: The Good, the Hard, and How to Know If It's Right for YouWhat I like most about the job, what makes me sometimes want to take a break, and how to choose between PM and EM roles.
A Leanpub Podcast Interview with Nicolas Brown, Author of Real World Agility: Backed by evidence, built for results | Watch here: https://youtu.be/SV0T6ro-jUg #books #ebooks #Agile #ProductManagement #Leanpub #Leadership
#Windows11's new #StickyNotes app (a thinly disguised #OneNote) is fucking annoying. Since it is so-called "smart", and it attempts to provide context around the "source" of your note, its window is constantly updating with "current source" ALL THE TIME. Its visually distracting AF.
And it can't be disabled. Do better #Microsoft.
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Great products die when you ignore great feedback that comes from the heart. #productmanagement
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:am2eg2fcdzrt5345kqxeabii/post/3lrheiiud422i
Bluesky Social · Abraham Samma🔬🔭👨💻 (@abesamma.bsky.social)To the #bluesky community and the @bsky.app team. Come together to showcase what we have here and spend less time being "judgy hall monitors" because the competition is capitalising on this. We still need more folks to move to this network.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/bluesky-backlash-misses-the-point/
"These meetings are distracting me from the work."
The meetings are the work. Sorry.
The fact that your org doesn't value meetings and doesn't put any effort into making them more effective is a symptom of a broader pattern of ignoring feminized "glue work" in favor of Big Masculine Outputs.
Making the work visible is the first step towards making it valued.
The Product PicnicThe glue is the workTech orgs only function thanks to people who volunteer for thankless "glue work." This is the space where UX lives; for the field to get respect we need to make this work visible.
Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:
• The business and ethics of #therapy, with Melissa Flanagan, LCSW
• #ClimateChange and #wildfires in Canada, with @rickylanusse
• #ProductManagement and team dynamics, with Camila Barreto
• Strip Mall, a fictional story by Leigh Alexander
https://medium.com/blog/how-therapy-apps-work-and-dont-work-with-therapists-1499c735f051
Least jobs-to-be-done product design?
- Cadbury's Flake
- Candy floss
- Cling film
- Undergraduate BA courses
Every tech oligarch wants to build an Everything App - because they now have the power to do so, but also because they're completely out of ideas.
This week's issue of my newsletter tackles the rise of the "data-driven" Nothing Manager responsible for building Everything, with the "power" of #GenAI.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-everything-app-is-a-symptom-of-nothing-management-part-1
The Product PicnicThe Everything App is a symptom of Nothing Management (part 1)Leaders who surrender their point of view inevitably arrive at the same conclusion: we must solve every problem for every user. This approach demolishes the possibility of real impact.