When Not to Fail Fast?
Fail Fast tells you how to move. It doesn't tell you what to check before you start. The cases where those questions go unasked don't just fail fast. They fail wide, quietly, and at someone else's cost.
Topic
Product Management
A collection of 11 issues
The Reversible Decision: A Product Manager's Guide to Navigating Uncertainty
Certainty is a recipe for brittleness. In fluid markets, the only real strategy is a shock absorber. From Bezos's Two-Way Doors to the Three-Strike Rule, learn how the Reversible Decision framework lowers the cost of being wrong and creates the space for growth.
Your SaaS Product Is Becoming Liquid: The Bundle Is Unbundling
Two parallel shifts are converging: AI agents that generate interfaces on-demand, and LLMs that compile intent into code. Together, they're ending the era of fixed software. If the UI and the logic layer goes away, what's left of your SaaS product? Time for an uncomfortable exercise.
The Street Sweeper Trap: Why Your Solutions Are Just Creating More Work
A city has pristine streets, but 5000 sweepers scrub them daily at a huge cost. This is the "Street Sweeper Trap." We often fall into the trap of solving symptoms with effort instead of architecture. Stop being the janitor of your team; start being its architect. Learn the 4-step framework.
The Machinery
Your fitness app warns your streak will break. Your meditation app reminds you to be mindful. None are designed for peace of mind. They're designed to keep the machinery running. What if we built products differently?
The Happy Path Is the Shadow of Good Failure Design
The happy path builds itself when failure is designed from the start. This essay breaks down a simple hierarchy for ranking errors, planning recovery, and shaping products that feel smooth not by accident, but because the messy paths were handled deliberately.
If AI Builds Faster Than You Can Think, How Do Product Managers Stay Relevant?
AI has made building effortless — but not meaningful. As prototypes shrink from months to minutes, the real advantage isn’t speed; it’s awareness. This essay explores how Product Managers can adapt their craft, design faster feedback loops, and rediscover meaning in an AI-accelerated world.
Are Your Experiments Killing Innovation?
Does your team runs dozens of experiments every month? Let's explore how great product teams turn experimentation into true discovery, and why organizations get this wrong.
Building Better Software Teams Part 3 - 4 Symptoms or One Problem
This story is third in the series Building Better Software Teams in which we understand and try to remediate some common issues faced by software teams.
In the previous part, we saw how 5 Whys can be a great way to get to the root of an issue. Once the
Building Better Software Teams Part 2 - Starting with 5 Whys
In Part 1, we explored the story of Beth and her team, who are facing challenges in delivering a critical project on time. We observed Beth taking initiative by speaking with her manager, Linda, to bring the team together and discuss their current predicament. Additionally, we saw them identify 6