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ChatPRD

By Claire Vo

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Communication5 steps

Clear Is Kind: The Three-Sentence Correction

State the failure, state your belief in them, hand them the responsibility — starting tomorrow

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Communication4 steps

Design For Tomorrow's Majority, Not The Vocal Minority

Optimize for the far larger future user base, then manage the unhappy few with authentic listening.

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Leadership3 steps

Diagnose Agent Failure as Structural, Not Stupidity

When an agent does the wrong thing, check its context, tools, and scope — not its intelligence.

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Strategy3 steps

Differentiate Above The Model, Not Around Its Gaps

Build your moat outside the LLM so your product gets better as the models get better.

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Leadership3 steps

Earn The Next Role By Driving Impact In This One

Stop eyeing the next promotion; be judged on impact delivered in the job you already hold.

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Peak Performance3 steps

Exposure Hours

Build taste as a trainable skill by quantifying time spent watching real people use products

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Self-Mastery5 steps

Follow People, Not Plans

Choose jobs by who you'll learn from, not by a five-year plan or a financial bet.

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Self-Mastery3 steps

Learn the Tokens, Not the Depth

In the AI era, master the symbolic vocabulary of a domain rather than its exhaustive depth

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Strategy5 steps

Lowercase-c vs Capital-C: AI-Proofing Your Skill Stack

Sort every task into what AI does 80% well and what only a human can do — then invest accordingly

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Marketing3 steps

Make the End User Feel Like a Winner

Design agents that don't just do tasks — they make the user look good and feel like a winner.

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Influence5 steps

Manufacture the Room (Bending the Universe)

Decide which room you must be in, then engineer a legitimate reason to be standing in it

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Strategy3 steps

Nine Nos For Every Yes

Guard product quality with creative restraint — every feature you say yes to is a puppy you must care for forever

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Productivity3 steps

One Agent Per Lane

Beat context overload by running many narrow, purpose-built agents instead of one do-everything agent.

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Productivity4 steps

One Click Faster (Clock Speed Management)

Three tactics to raise an organization's pace without lowering its bar

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Productivity4 steps

Product-First AI Prompting

Steer AI builders by describing the end-user experience ambitiously, then iterate like you're coaching a collaborator

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Strategy3 steps

Pull the Thread on New Tools

Judge a new AI tool by where it'll be in a week or a month, not where it is on day one.

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Communication3 steps

Ramble-Mode Onboarding

Onboard an AI agent by voice-rambling everything you need, not by wiring up APIs and structured fields.

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Innovation3 steps

Solve the Problem Behind the Problem

When an agent can't do a task, escalate API-to-browser, then reframe to the underlying need it can solve.

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Innovation3 steps

The Escape Hatch Principle

Abstractions should let power users drop to raw control when the model doesn't fit their problem

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Leadership3 steps

The Hire-an-Agent Onboarding Model

Set up an AI agent exactly like you'd onboard a human EA: own identity, delegated access, earned trust.

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Entrepreneurship3 steps

The In-Product Feedback Loop

Stream user reactions straight into your team's consciousness by building feedback into the product itself

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Leadership5 steps

The Org Chart With Your Name On It

Win the promotion by solving your boss's org problem, not by asking for your next title

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Leadership6 steps

The PM-Engineering Alignment Operating System

Run product and engineering as one leadership unit with clear ownership and async, iterated reviews.

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Innovation5 steps

The Technology Wave Specialization Ladder

Ratchet down on a new technology while it's still weird — teardown, no-code, then fun build

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Self-Mastery5 steps

The Zone of Genius Calendar Audit

Bucket last quarter's calendar by joy, then ask what only you can do

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Innovation4 steps

Throwaway Prototyping To Discover The Product

Build disposable prototypes on real data to feel what works before writing any production code.

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Productivity4 steps

Use AI As Leverage On Your PM Time

Assign the model a role, feed it more context than you could read, and iterate the prompt until it works.

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