Rise of the Product Leader
Assaph Mehr's views and advice on and for rising product leaders - from those just entering product management, to those leading product organisations.
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Will you finally do your cyber properly? Kthx (opens the original)
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Australia’s business and financial regulators wrote to everyone they regulate about AI. APRA sent an open letter to the banks, insurers, and super funds. ASIC sent one of its own to licensees and market participants, and together they recently published joint insig
Two Kinds of Optimism (opens the original)
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I live on the edge of the bush, so bushfire plans are part of life (albeit less so since moving to Tassie). Picture two neighbours on a rural street, facing the same summer and the same risk.One spends a Saturday on it: they clear the gutters, pack a go-bag, agree where they’d meet and which road they’d take, what’s the cut-off of stand-and-fight and where to go if you’re leaving.The other neighbour says “She’ll be right” and plans to leave if any fire gets too close for comfort. And here’s the
Nobody Can Prove You Used AI (opens the original)
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This floated past my feed recently, around the discussion AI writing:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="494" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qoai!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws
AI Raises the Ceiling and Lowers the Floor (opens the original)
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A 15-page document lands in your inbox, where a one-pager would do. It’s well formatted with confident headings, tidy bullet points that all sound vaguely alike, and a bolded executive summary that catches nothing important. It somehow misses the point of the question you asked. You know within two paragraphs that AI wrote it, and that the sender didn’t read it as carefully as you’re about to.That’s the trick, isn’t it? You’re about to. The effort behind the work didn’t disappear when the sender
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