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On The Product Porch, every topic is a product topic. Dive into casual conversations on product management and career growth, woven with pop culture and real-life insights.
- Indexed videos, last 90 days
- 7
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
- Audience
- ~63 subscribers
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- Jul 7, 2026
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PM Power Skills - Building Comfort with Ambiguity (opens the original)
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Join us on the porch for our series on Product Manager Power Skills. These are the skills that help good product managers become great ones. They stay valuable across tools, processes, and product types, and building them can help you grow your impact and your career. How do you make progress when you don’t have all the answers? In this episode, Ryan Cantwell, Todd Blaquiere, and Joe Ghali explore comfort with ambiguity and why it’s a power skill product managers can develop. They talk through w
Revisited - Does Industry Experience Matter? (opens the original)
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Does industry experience really matter when you’re trying to land your next product role? In this episode, Joe, Todd, and Ryan revisit one of their earliest debates and find themselves in a slightly different place. Industry experience can help you ramp faster, understand the unwritten rules, and bring useful relationships to the table. But it can also get overrated, especially when companies use domain expertise as a shortcut for strong product skills or real customer discovery. The guys dig in
PM Power Skills - Strategy (opens the original)
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Join us on the porch for our series on Product Manager Power Skills. These are the skills that help good product managers become great ones. They stay valuable across tools, processes, and product types, and building them can help you grow your impact and your career. Have you ever been told to “be more strategic” and wondered what that’s supposed to mean? In this episode, Todd Blaquiere, Joe Ghali, and Ryan Cantwell break down what strategy really is, what it isn’t, and why product managers so
PM Power Skills - Communication (opens the original)
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Ever leave a meeting thinking you were crystal clear, only to find out everyone walked away with a different interpretation? In this episode, Joe Ghali and Ryan Cantwell dig into why communication is one of the most important power skills in product management, and why being clear is about more than saying the right words. They talk through how to tailor your message for executives, peers, and teams, why storytelling often lands better than a wall of facts, and how preparation, listening, and si
AI Tools Don’t Make You a Better Product Manager (opens the original)
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Does knowing how to use AI make you better at product management, or just better at using another tool? In this episode, Joe Ghali, Ryan Cantwell, and Todd Blaquiere dig into what AI competency should really look like for product managers. They talk about why completing training or knowing your way around ChatGPT, Claude, Figma, GitHub, or SQL is not the same as having sound product judgment. The real test is whether those tools help you make better decisions, create clearer outcomes, and focus
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