the best ideas i ever shipped came from engineers on my team. an engineer's job is NOT only to code. they are incredible problem solvers and are ridiculously creative. they understand the tech, know what is possible, and will be building it. involve them early and often!

Worthy Read: The Science of Product Management: The Process is a Means to an End, Not the End Itself. by Melissa Perri (Melissa Perri) bit.ly/2VAPVxG #prodmgmt #ux #engineering

GPT-4's vision API isn't public yet, but something better is here. Genmo: a creative & multimodal chatbot that not only takes image as input, but also generates and EDITs images and videos. Unlike Midjourney, Genmo is an *interactive* assistant able to genmo.ai

Worthy Read: 4 Major Problems With The Lean Startup Methodology by Sachin Rekhi (Sachin Rekhi) bit.ly/3RLBbpW #prodmgmt #ux #engineering

Worthy Read: The Mindset That Kills Product Thinking by Jeff Patton (Jeff Patton) bit.ly/3rDH9yU #prodmgmt #ux #engineering

Tl;dr No amount of doc or figma review substitutes for using the product, hands on, like users do. Spend time every week using your app, especially new stuff. And ship in bits and speed up feedback cycles, even during the development phase. Finally: details matter.

If you're drowning in bureaucracy at work, your company probably isn't following Elon Musk's five-step process for improvement. Here are the highlights: "Everybody's been trained in high school and college that you have to answer the question. It's convergence logic. You can't

The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible Much of the tension in product development and interface design comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and the possible. Figuring out which things go in which bucket is critical to fully understanding how to make something

happy code freeze to all who celebrate

milei’s speech should be the media event of the year. every high school class in the US should break and watch it, then spend a week understanding the historical context behind his devastating truths. if you haven’t watched, please do. and share widely.

Every time you ask the user click you lose half of them. (AKA why tutorials, splash screens, and lengthy signup flows are a bad idea) If you’ve been building apps for a long time and have seen the results of a lot of A/B tests, you quickly realize that people are a flighty

#agtech software has struggled with adoption, will #AI help solve the problem? Sarah Nolet j matthew pryor (e/ag) of Tenacious Ventures and I did a deep dive into trust, CX, and biz models for agtech software Free report below rhishipethe.com/aireport

Instead of “Now / Next / Later” what about “Now / Probable / Possible.” You’re still communicating roughly the same thing, but with correct level of commitment.

A technical background is a superpower for PMs. You make better decisions, communicate with engineers with more confidence, and create more career opportunities for yourself. In today's newsletter, Colin Matthews (instructor of the top-rated Maven course "Technical Foundations

🌱 Exciting news from Leaf! We've closed an $11.3M Series A round led by Spero Ventures. This funding will help us continue to help push food & agriculture forward by making it easy for companies to become compatible with data from any farm via a single integration.

WTF are evals? Evals are how you measure the quality and effectiveness of your AI system. They act like regression tests or benchmarks, clearly defining what “good” actually looks like for your AI product beyond the kind of simple latency or pass/fail checks you’d usually use

Great overview of where product management is headed - Problem shaping / clarity - Context curation - Evals / taste

In order to have a sense of AI adoption right now, you really need to have one foot at the bleeding edge with the kids Wispr-ing through a mic at Devin all day and one foot in the 99% enterprise world where they’re still debating the merits of leaving “bundled-MSFT-ELA-Copilot”

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