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Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager
Compares good and bad product manager behavior trait by trait in Horowitz's 1996 essay.
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Presents a six-question checklist for deciding what to delegate and how to explain it.
Compares good and bad product manager behavior trait by trait in Horowitz's 1996 essay.
Argues that market choice matters more than team or product quality in startup success.
Describes Amazon's practice of drafting a press release before building a product.
Presents Jeff Bezos's 1997 shareholder letter, the founding statement of Amazon's long-term thinking.
Explains why evaluation skill is becoming essential for building reliable AI products.
Explains a one-line mechanism for turning a standalone tool into a network-effect product.
Describes how Superhuman used a 'very disappointed' survey threshold to measure product-market fit.
Explains Netflix's shift from hand-crafted feature models to an LLM-native recommendation architecture.
Reports that an AI model found a counterexample disproving a 1946 Erdős conjecture.
Reexamines the author's own claim that tech lead roles are a trap, extending it to middle management.
Argues that not all revenue deserves the same valuation and sets out ten metrics for business quality.