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Your strategy isn’t dying in the roadmap. It’s dying in the intake form.
The process nobody designed is still making your decisions.
Apr 29
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Mike Watson
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Three Sentences, No Title: What Actually Happens When You Try It.
What three sentences reveal about how much your title was carrying.
May 19
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Why it feels like nothing ever gets done.
Five contractor teams across two codebases. Less output than ever.
May 13
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Mike Watson
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Some of the best software ever made stopped updating years ago.
Indie devs talk about shipping. Nobody talks about stopping.
May 6
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Mike Watson
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Building alone taught me I’d been doing product management at a safe distance.
The contractor’s customer never opened my app. My app’s quality depended on them anyway.
Apr 22
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Mike Watson
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Jan 8, 2025
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Why users ignore your best features.
May 6, 2025
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Your emotional intelligence is sabotaging your career.
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The product management job everyone wants might not exist.
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Companies are measuring AI adoption. They should be measuring capacity.
The wrong number is producing the wrong intervention.
Apr 15
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Mike Watson
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Your profession isn't gone. It's restructuring.
How to move when the ground is shifting.
Apr 7
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Mike Watson
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Your app has 30 features. Your user's brain has 4 slots.
Cognitive science research on working memory and cognitive load reveals why feature-bloated apps fail — and how product designers can build better UX.
Mar 31
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Mike Watson
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AI didn't kill product intuition. It exposed who never had it.
Using AI to validate ideas before they consume sprints, credibility, and roadmap space.
Mar 24
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Mike Watson
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Software can't read the room.
And that's a product problem, not a technology problem.
Mar 17
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Mike Watson
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Your implementation project doesn't need five consultants. It needs one who validates first.
AI didn’t just speed up the implementation. It changed what “implementation team” means.
Mar 10
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Mike Watson
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From research to App Store in 48 hours.
What rapid validation actually looks like when building is cheap.
Mar 3
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