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Dare to Be Different. (opens the original)
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Something interesting is happening now. It feels like a deja-vu with different colors, but the same predictable results. Let me share what I observe, and you’ll tell me if you’re seeing something else.Most product folks I know are doing more or less the same right now. It’s something like this:Learn how to use LLMsImprove promptingStart building with AICreate a few agentsLearn about Skills, MCP, RAG, Eval, LoopsAttend some AI coursesGet a certificate<div cla
Dealing With the Broken Job Market (opens the original)
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I have a confession for you. I’ve never received an offer for any job I applied to. Not even a single time. For a while I kept that to myself, maybe because I felt this was embarrassing, but today I feel the need of sharing it because there’s a key lesson I learned later in life. Stick with me and we’ll get to that.Let me ask you a question: how do you perceive the job market right now?Untrapping Product Teams is an honest newsletter about product in reality. We don’t t
7 Weak Product Management Signs (opens the original)
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In 2021, I wrote about the 7 signs of weak product management. Recently, I decided to revise it. Why? Sometimes we get so deep into new solutions that we forget what they were for.Let me take you back to my first role as a lead. I was a head of product, and I remember my continuous fight against the corporate firewall. I wanted the team empowered with problems worth solving, and I wanted them to figure out the solutions on their own. Overcoming that firewall was tremendously challenging. Sometim
Bullshit Management Didn't Die. It Got Automated. (opens the original)
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Four years ago, I was pissed. I knew I wasn’t doing product management, but I couldn’t name what I was doing. Eventually, the term found me: bullshit management. I wrote exactly what I felt, published it, and moved on. Barely did I know what was about to happen.That single article got over 1 million reads combined across LinkedIn, Substack, Medium, and my website. I ended up speaking about it at conferences in 12 countries. For a long time, I asked myself why this one traveled so far.<p class="c
Just Another Transformation (opens the original)
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Have you ever seen any transformation working?If you have, please share what made it successful because more people need to learn from it. Most transformations fail. And they fail for predictable reasons.Let’s travel back in time a little bit.A few decades ago we had several digital transformations taking place, consultancies made big money, but the results were often questionable. Then after that was the time for Agile transformations, smaller companies went with Scrum, bigger ones with SAFe, l
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