Product
Who Killed the Product Manager?
(or: how we quietly dismantled the one role that understood the whole business)
Geoff Anderson
Product
The True Religion of American Pricing Psychology
What a gallon of gas can teach you about anchoring, asymmetry, and the stubborn math of consumer behavior
Product
A Pragmatic PM's Guide to Generative AI
What it gets right, what it gets wrong, and how to use it without getting torched. There is no doubt that AI can greatly augment your work, and help you get to defensible positions without getting bogged into the tactical morass
Product
The Craft of Product Management
My near three decades in the product management trenches has reinforced that product management isn't a recipe, it is a craft, and it is a craft honed by repetition and practice.
Product
How We Got Here: Three Decades of Product Management's Identity Crisis
Product management has transformed significantly in my 3 decades of experience, but it has still remained true to its original goals: how to meld business context to solving customer problems
Product
The Toolbox Doesn't Make the Carpenter
Having been in product management as long as I have, the evolution of the tools that do product management tasks, and while they are slick, they don't make you a product manager.
Product
The Old Dog's New Trick: AI as a Force Multiplier in Building Technical Training
For a long time, I was a sceptic, someone who resisted the use of GenAI in my day to day. I thought that it wouldn't be able to deliver the goods. That changed when we pivoted our development process, and the tools became an essential part of the workflow.
Newsletter
Do I keep this alive?
At a crossroads, is the Product Bistro worth keeping alive, or should it be allowed to slip into the long goodnight. Help me decide!
OpenAI's Problem
OpenAI's ChatGPT is impressive, but the competition is catching up (and surpassing them in places). That is making their lack of a defensible moat an Achilles Heel.
MBA? Nah bro.
A change is needed in the business, and instead of calling a consultancy, I turned to AI, and it was not disappointing. Is it good enough? No, but it is enough to prime the pump on the business transformation needed.
AI and the Enterprise
Corporate AI projects are not yet driving expected productivity gains, but don't read too much into it - yet.
Newsletter
The Coming (web) Traffic Apocalypse
The shift to AI summaries in searches leads to fewer click-throughs and thus a drastic fall off of ad revenue for media sites. This is driving a trend to the "newsletter" model.