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The Fiberglass Plant and the Photomask Writer
Everyone's calling the AI buildout 'industrial.' A fiberglass plant and a photomask shop are both industrial — and only one of them can fund itself.
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Product
Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm Pt 5: "The Reckoning"
AI isn't disrupting product management as a category. It's disrupting the execution layer of it specifically. If you've been telling yourself you're on the strategic side of that line, this post is about whether that's true.
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Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm Post 4: The Ticket Queue Is Not a Career
Part 4: The promise bifurcated, and many were sold a bill of goods. For most, the grind of the feature factory was lived experience
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The Deskilling Machine: How We Hollowed Out Product Management — and What AI Is About to Do to Everything Else
Or, this is the removal of the Cargo Cult technocrats, hired to work, but not to have a purpose. You surely have come across these drones.
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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.
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Why Amazon, oh why
A recent purchase with a Trade-in is leaving a sour taste. For a retail giant, their customer-fu is weak