Product judgment still wins ⚖️, cracks in the AI thesis 🪨, PLG sales problems 🤔

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News & Trends
Strong Opinions, Loosely Held (8 minute read)

AI makes building cheaper, not product judgment easier. Strategy, customer understanding, and independent thinking matter more than ever.
Cracks in the AI Thesis Part 2 (4 minute read)

Anthropic extended its lead in business AI adoption, though overall growth slowed and spending by top users dropped nearly 10% in August. Falling token prices and a shift to cheaper models are cutting costs, while open-source and Chinese models account for little corporate usage.
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Opinions & Tutorials
Don't let AI automate the mess out of product development (4 minute read)

Don't automate away productive friction. Use AI for routine work, but keep humans in the conversations where judgment and alignment happen.
Product Management is Still All About Telling Stories (11 minute read)

AI makes building cheap, but judgment still defines great products. The PM's job is to choose what matters and tell a story users understand.
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The product process that saved us weeks of wasted development (8 minute read)

Catch bad product architecture before you build it. Validate early, and let the structure of the problem shape the solution.
Congrats, your sales problems in PLG are completely unoriginal (6 minute read)

Don't kill PLG to grow enterprise. Let product adoption create enterprise demand, then use sales when customers actually need it.
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Miscellaneous
Catching the (Venture) Bus (8 minute read)

Tech's biggest winners are increasingly built in private markets. Traditional venture allocations may be too small, but access to the best funds matters more than broad exposure.
How To Find Meaning In Life (7 minute read)

Meaning comes from commitment, not endless options. Invest deeply in people, purpose, and work that matters beyond yourself.
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Quick Links
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Distinguishing decisions from assumptions (2 minute read)

AI can make assumptions look like decisions.
Why Spotify Still Uses Frequentist A/B Testing (2 minute read)

Bayesian A/B testing is only as useful as its priors.

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