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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.
 • Mike Watson
Some of the best software ever made stopped updating years ago.
Indie devs talk about shipping. Nobody talks about stopping.
 • Mike Watson
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.
 • Mike Watson
Companies are measuring AI adoption. They should be measuring capacity.
The wrong number is producing the wrong intervention.
 • Mike Watson
Your profession isn't gone. It's restructuring.
How to move when the ground is shifting.
 • Mike Watson
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.
 • Mike Watson
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.
 • Mike Watson
Software can't read the room.
And that's a product problem, not a technology problem.
 • Mike Watson
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Product Party is a newsletter tailored for product enthusiasts and tech aficionados, delving into the art and science of creating outstanding products, advancing careers, and the convergence of innovation with AI.
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