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AI as Undermind Mirror

Use a structured five-days-of-questions prompt to make an LLM reflect back patterns you already sense but can't articulate.

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Peak Performance4 steps

Build Taste by Watching Adjacent Software

Develop design intuition by watching real people use OTHER products, not your own.

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Chronic vs Acute Organisational Challenges

Work down the chronic issues so you have capacity to absorb the acute shocks.

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Leadership5 steps

Come In Listening, Not Swinging

Earn trust before you inflict change: the first 90 days of a leader inheriting a team.

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Communication4 steps

De-Ambiguate Upstream: The Brief as a Prompt

Design is slow only when the brief is vague; remove variables upstream like you'd add context to an AI prompt.

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Innovation4 steps

Delay the Primal Mark

Stay in low-fidelity blocks and conversation as long as possible before drawing anything that looks real.

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Strategy4 steps

Design Tenants (Decision-Making Rules, Not Principles)

Replace feel-good design principles with 3-4 opinionated tenants that settle recurring debates for good.

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Strategy5 steps

Fail Conclusively (Maximize the Treatment Effect)

Design experiments that kill an idea for good, so no future exec can resurrect it.

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Innovation5 steps

Fear-Origin Audit for Product Bets

Products built from competitive fear fail; audit the motivation before you audit the roadmap.

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Influence5 steps

Find the Loops Available to You

Even when told exactly what to build, you can still run most of the product loop.

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Innovation4 steps

Frameworks as Job Aids, Reps as the Goal

Adopting a framework is never the goal; getting reps through the full loop is.

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Leadership4 steps

Hypothesis-Based Coaching (Explorer, Not Lecturer)

Coach by exploring a well-informed hunch with someone, not lecturing them from data

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Strategy4 steps

Interview for Design in the DNA

Before joining, verify the founders valued your function from the very beginning; it can't be grafted on later.

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Communication4 steps

Make the Implicit Explicit (Meetings and Decisions)

Force every meeting and decision to declare its purpose, owner, and method out loud

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Personal Operating Principles Discovery

Derive how you lead by forcing your values down to three, then plotting your work style

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Innovation5 steps

Problem-First, Wheelhouse-Checked, Unit-Economics-Proven

Three gates a product idea must pass before you build the solution you already fell in love with.

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Communication5 steps

Ruthless Simplification for PM Writing

A set of concrete tools to strip PM documents down to only what's necessary.

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Communication4 steps

Say the Thing You Think You Cannot Say

Voice the hard observation by detoxifying it into a question you own

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Communication3 steps

Start-With-Why One-Pager

The PM's core artifact: define the thing by nailing the problem and why-now before anything else.

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Mindset5 steps

The A-Side / B-Side Career Ledger

Track the B-side of your career so a bad season doesn't read as a verdict on your life.

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Strategy5 steps

The Broken Equation Test

No amount of product craft can fix a company whose underlying math doesn't close.

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Strategy4 steps

The Company Operating System (House Metaphor)

Build a company like a house: founding documents, operating system, and operating cadence

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Mindset3 steps

The Data-Driven Red Flag

When someone brags about being 'data-driven,' suspect weak product judgment, not strong analytics.

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Innovation7 steps

The Data-Informed Product Loop

Strategy to models to measurement to bets to impact to learning — find the broken link.

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Leadership5 steps

The Five Markers of High-Performing Product Teams

Coherence, stubborn beliefs, faith in product, matching words to actions, contextual skills.

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Strategy8 steps

The Landscape-First Product Strategy Doc

A bullet-driven Google Doc that builds an unbroken logic chain from company mission down to a single team priority.

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Innovation5 steps

The Minimum Viable Experiment Trap

A lean test that strips out the mechanism doesn't test the idea — it buries it.

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Self-Mastery5 steps

The Pyramid of Leadership Self-Awareness

Four levels from knowing nothing about yourself to treating diverse worldviews as an asset.

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Strategy4 steps

The Reverse Anna Karenina Principle

Dysfunctional companies all fail the same way; high performers succeed in wildly different ways.

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Leadership3 steps

The Three Threads of Great PMs

The three durable behaviors that separate great product managers from good ones, in any company type.

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The Worst Product You Ever Shipped

One interview question that separates PMs with real reps from PMs with a clean résumé.

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Productivity4 steps

Tuning Your Operating Cadence

Set review rhythm by two signals: too fast if no progress, too slow if content is stale

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Unpack the Mindset Into Teachable Skills

Replace 'product sense' and 'high agency' with the specific competencies underneath them.

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Leadership4 steps

Values, Not Behaviors: The Culture Car Wash

When you change companies, keep the values that got you hired but recalibrate the behaviors to the new culture.

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