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The product management job everyone wants might not exist.
Why successful companies distribute product work instead of hiring traditional product people.
Oct 7, 2025
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Mike Watson
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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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Are you fulfilled by the work you are doing?
Jan 8, 2025
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Mike Watson
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Why users ignore your best features.
May 6, 2025
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Mike Watson
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Your emotional intelligence is sabotaging your career.
Sep 23, 2025
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Mike Watson
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The Anti-Pattern Playbook.
Mar 25, 2025
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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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Mike Watson
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Building is free. Customers still cost everything.
Vibe coding solved the easy problem. The hard one hasn't changed.
Feb 24
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Mike Watson
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Prompting isn’t the skill gap. Judgment is.
While everyone’s learning to prompt better, the market is moving past prompting entirely.
Feb 17
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Mike Watson
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I trained an AI on my career so hiring managers don't have to guess.
How I built an AI that represents me better than my resume ever could.
Feb 10
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Mike Watson
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Companies cutting product people are about to learn an expensive lesson about AI.
The bridge between technical capability and business value isn't code. It's the empathy and translation skills you're laying off.
Feb 3
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Mike Watson
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