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Finding your work people.
When Excel skills forge deeper connections than virtual happy hours.
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Mike Watson
You should join the Feature Diet Club.
Trimming the product fat for leaner, more valuable digital experiences.
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Mike Watson
From Friction to Fuel: Harnessing Conflict for Innovation.
A framework for turning team tension into breakthrough ideas.
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Mike Watson
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Test Before You Invest: The Pretotype → Prototype → MVP Sequence.
Save months of development on features destined for the product graveyard.
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Mike Watson
Product EQ: The skill that can shape your career.
How emotional intelligence turns good product people into exceptional ones.
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Mike Watson

March 2025

The Anti-Pattern Playbook.
Breaking free from the cycle of building things nobody wants.
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Mike Watson
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How to: Not become the human equivalent of a floppy disk.
We need to start sorting out our next moves as product folks before we go extinct.
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Mike Watson
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The finale to my first full-stack project experience.
I built a full-stack golf course search platform and am sharing the details of my journey.
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Mike Watson
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The future of software is being written in...COBOL?
Move aside, React. This week, we are deep diving into the wonderful world of a little software platform with a big heart - COBOL.
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Mike Watson
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February 2025

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