You're probably dealing with this already. Sales asks for a “must-have feature” because a competitor demoed it. Engineering pushes back and says the product's core functionality is still fragile. Design says the workflow is too messy to layer anything else on top. Everyone uses feature and functionality like they mean the same thing, and the […]
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Why OpenAI has been talking about Codex nonstop (03:28) Aakash: If anybody has been observing OpenAI at all, they have seen that in the last month or two, Sam has been talking about Codex. Codex, Codex, Codex. It seems like you guys have invested a lot […]
Most advice about product management training programs is wrong because it starts with brand names. It tells you to pick a bootcamp, a certificate, or a course provider before you've defined the actual career problem you're trying to solve. That's backwards. Hiring managers don't care that you “took a PM course.” They care whether the […]
You're probably here because a simple setup task turned into a dependency on engineering. You wanted a clean folder structure for an AI feature experiment, a quick prototype, or a shared workspace for specs and sample data. Instead, you got stuck toggling between Finder, File Explorer, Slack, and someone else's calendar. That's exactly why PMs […]
A lot of PMs run into the same problem at launch time. You know you need a strong marketing partner, but the title on the req doesn't tell you enough. Hire a marketing manager when you needed a PMM, and the launch gets plenty of activity but weak product narrative. Hire a PMM when the […]
You're in a review with the CEO, engineering lead, and go-to-market team. Someone asks a deceptively simple question: “Are we launching an MVP or an MMP?” If you answer casually, you've already lost the room. That choice decides what your team optimizes for, what quality bar you hold, who sees the product first, and how […]
You're probably looking at two job descriptions that both sound strategic, cross-functional, and high impact. One says Product Manager. The other says Brand Manager. Both mention customers, growth, positioning, launches, and leadership. On paper, they look adjacent. In practice, they build very different careers. I've seen candidates make this decision too casually. They optimize for […]
Most advice on product metrics is backwards. It tells PMs to instrument everything, build a dashboard, and let the data speak. In practice, the data rarely speaks. It mumbles. Then a team fills the silence with opinions, politics, and whichever chart makes the roadmap look justified. The PMs who get promoted don't win because they […]
In product management, MVP usually means Minimum Viable Product. In sports, it usually means Most Valuable Player, and that difference matters more than many realize. A lot of PMs run into the same moment. Leadership asks for an “MVP,” engineering hears “small first release,” design hears “rough draft,” sales hears “something demoable,” and a non-tech […]
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Why code is a liability now (03:18) Aakash: One of the craziest statements I heard from you was code is a liability. What does that mean exactly? And what has been recently enabled with the latest versions of GPT 5 and 5.5 that allows you to […]