Steve Jobs on why we should spend our time making great things:

Do good work. Make good money. Take care of your people. Stay in shape. See the world. Everything else is just noise.

As product managers… how are you using #AI within your teams to have better PM governance?

Just wrapped up the 🧠 Google AI Essentials course and earned the cert. Broke it down like a Product Manager: ✅ What’s worth your time ✅ Where the value is ✅ How I fit it in while keeping my toddler from eating Play-Doh 😅 Full review on Substack 👇

Absolutely! Some founder motivation much needed this Friday! Thank you Alexis Ohanian 🗽 👏

every PM and product leader needs to check this out Marty Cagan gives some great tips on how to prepare for AI as a product team I curated a short list of my own notes to help you (see full video below)

🚀 New Substack Recap — My take on the AfroTech AI Edge Summit by Blavity 🔥 From custom GPTs & Perplexity to Adobe Firefly, HeyGen & Zapier — this was all about turning AI curiosity into AI execution. 📖 Read here ➡️open.substack.com/pub/nolanfmels… #AfroTech #Blavity #AI

I’m a 36 PM in big tech. I also love to tinker and have some ideas. Am I too old for Y Combinator 🤔

Love this quote from Aman, “Going from Vibe Coding to Thrive Coding.” - & If you only have 2 hrs, this will help you become an AI PM 👉youtu.be/Ej4pBDaHspk?si… #ai #vibecoding #productgrowth #thrivecoding

Nolan Melson Woo! Let’s get more AI PM thrive coding 🙌

Marc Andreessen’s career advice for the AI era:

⚔️Avelis Health prevents overpayments on medical claims. Their AI agents have audited millions in claims and prevented significant overpayments for self-insured employers. ycombinator.com/launches/OEB-a… Congrats on the launch, Angel Onuoha and ASH🪄!

5 Prompting Hacks to 10x Your AI Productivity Today | Stanford Universit... Jeremy Utley | Stanford HAI youtu.be/yMOmmnjy3sE?si… via YouTube

This dude literally dropped the coldest truth about distraction

AI will not replace doctors. But doctors using AI will transform healthcare. 🏥🤖 At Texas McCombs Homecoming I heard from alum Ganesh💰Padmanabhan ⚕️🦾 (CEO of Autonomize AI and my former PM instructor) and Brené Brown on how AI + leadership are shaping the future. My substack recap 👇

🚀 New Substack article! I spoke with Francisco García Osuna (Fran García) ex-VC in Mexico, product builder, now Booth MBA — on what AI founders need to know about launching in LATAM. 👉 Read here:open.substack.com/pub/nolanfmels… #LatAmStartups #AI #VentureCapital #Fintech #Startups

Most PMs learn how to ship features. Few learn how to collaborate with AI. #AnthropicAI AI Fluency Certification (my Vol. 2 course review) teaches the 4 Ds every AI-minded PM needs: 🪶 Delegation 💬 Description 🧐 Discernment ⚖️ Diligence Full insights in my newest substack 👇

See you all SHPE National! Swing by the Apple Booth (751) and say hi! 👋🏽 #SHPE2025 #FamiliaAtApple

Just wrapped a fireside chat with the Texas McCombs MBA MBA Tech Club! Great conversations with Texas McCombs MBA students on breaking into tech, PM careers, and how #AI is reshaping the future. Grateful for the students’ energy and sharp questions. 🐂 Full write-up here: