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Takeaways from conferences, reflections on building, and lessons from the AI product landscape.

AI StrategyProduct ManagementCase Study

How Intercom Restarted Their Company in a Weekend

The playbook for pivoting an incumbent product to AI-first, from the people who actually did it.

AI ProductsUX DesignProduct Thinking

Chat Is AI's Radio Drama

GitHub Next's thesis on why chatbots are a transitional form, not the destination.

AI StrategyFrameworksEnterprise

Automate, Augment, Stay Human

Snowflake's three-pillar framework for deciding when and how to apply AI in any organization.

GrowthAI ProductsStartups

Speed Is the Strategy: Inside Perplexity's Growth Playbook

How a flat org, relentless experimentation, and hiring for dopamine are beating Google at search.

Product ManagementAI StrategyPlanning

The Death of the 5-Year Roadmap

How AI product teams actually plan when your January roadmap is obsolete by March.

AI AgentsCareerFuture of Work

Managing Agents Is the Most Important Skill Nobody's Teaching

Box's CTO on the shift from doing work to managing AI that does work — and why it changes everything.

DistributionAI ProductsGrowth

Answer Engine Optimization: The New SEO Nobody's Talking About

How AI answer engines are disrupting traditional discovery and what it means for every product builder.

CareerBuildingProduct Management

Build First, Title Second

Why every leader at the conference said the same thing: the best career move is to ship something.

FrameworksProduct ThinkingCreator Economy

Fame, Fortune, or Fun: YouTube's Framework for Creator Products

A deceptively simple mental model for understanding what users actually want.

CareerAI ProductsProduct Management

Why Hybrids Win in the Age of AI

The case for being a jack of all trades — and why 'master of none' is no longer the ending.

AI ToolsCareerGo-to-Market

How OpenAI's GTM Leader Learned Healthcare in 4 Months

Using AI to speed-run domain expertise — and landing a major UCSF partnership in the process.

InnovationProduct ManagementEnterprise

The Hand-Off Problem: Why Corporate Innovation Dies

GitHub Next's hard-won lessons on why prototypes die when they leave the lab — and how to prevent it.