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“Impact-first Product Teams” (Book Review)
There are two things that frustrate me when I see some product managers and teams at work. First, PMs and teams not making a tangible impact. Instead, these teams just focus on releasing features “that the business has asked for”. Second, PMs talking about “the business” as if it was a separate entity that they’re…
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The Product-Led Playbook (Book Review)
“The Product-Led Playbook” has been written by Wes Bush as a practical companion to his previous books about product-led growth. Bush’s earlier book, Product-led growth, is all about designing and building products in such a way that the product itself can drive user acquisition, expansion, and retention. Things like subscription renewals or account upgrades are…
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DeepSeek R1 (Product Review)
By now, the Internet is all about DeepSeek and what makes its LLM different from other LLMs like OpenAI’s ChatGpT or Anthropic’s Claude. What stands out to me is DeepSeek’s thinking and reasoning output. As a simple example of DeepSeek’s ability to think in real-time, I asked it to tell me how to build a…
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My Product Management Toolkit (65): creating – customer and business – impact
At a time where people in the industry seem to question the added value of Product Managers (PMs) there’s even more reason for PMs to focus on the impact that they’re making through their products. The need for PMs to ensure to move the needle on their company’s bottom line is not a new one,…
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Learning from Anthropic about building effective agents
I previously explored agentic AI, focusing on autonomous AI decision-making by agents. Anthropic (the company behind Claude) recently shared their insights on agent development in their essay “Building effective agents”. Anthropic’s essay serves as a good reminder about what agentic AI is and I’ll share my takeaways here. What are agents? At Anthropic, the definition…
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