Articles
- Everyone Wants Your Fans to Stay. The Question Is Who Gets Left Holding the Community.
Recent moves by major platforms to enhance real-time engagement and integrate habit data underscore the importance of aligning product features with revenue streams to ensure long-term viability.
- Cheap Pixels Are Here. Now Decide What They're For.
Cheap image and video generators just landed. Ray on which AI tools belong in your workflow versus your product, and how to tell them apart.
- AI Does What You Meant, Not What You Wanted
AI in product management helps clear workflow friction, but it won't fix a broken team. Here's where it earns its keep and where it hides the rot.
- The prompt writes the screen. It won't tell you if the screen should exist.
AI design tools ship faster, but the thinking, framing, and craft judgment still belong to your team. Here's what actually changed and what to do about it.
- The CSS you already know just got safer to standardize
CSS translate functions and February's Baseline features give your design system concrete things to lock down. Here's what changed and what to do Monday.
- Your Design Tool Just Learned to Code, Test, and Click
Figma ships code layers and Gemini gets a mouse. Here's what agentic design and dev tools change for your team's build-versus-buy calls.
- The Best Helper on Your Team Is the One Closest to Burning Out
How to structure teams, rethink the growth role, and help people without wearing yourself down. Ray reads the leadership stuff so you don't have to.
- Meta Broke Its Own Team for AI, Then Started Charging for a Chip You Already Own
Zuckerberg admits Meta's AI reorg is wobbling while it paywalls smart glasses features. Here's what it means for how you set AI timelines on your team.
- Your Best Reviewer Is Doing a Machine's Job on Friday Night
AI is splitting design system review into rules a machine can enforce and judgment only a human should own. Here's what to automate and what to protect.
- You Need a Consent Policy Before Your Team Ships the Voice
AI voices, deepfakes, and fake profiles are forcing product leaders to write authenticity and consent rules. Here is what changed and what to do Monday.
- Your Team Can Ship a Prototype This Week. That's the New Problem.
AI coding platforms and agent frameworks make prototyping cheap and fast. Here is what that means for your roadmap and your next review.
- Your Best Hires Are Rebuilding Themselves. Are You Watching?
Designers are surviving 550 rejections, launching agencies at 45, and questioning briefs. Here is what that tells design leaders about coaching and retention.
- The AI You Shipped Has a Personality Nobody Chose
AI hype, sameness, and chat-only interfaces are draining user trust. Here is what product and design leaders can actually do about it on Monday.
- Great Products Attract the Wrong People. Here's How to Protect Yours.
Product vision, mission-locked governance, and Kent Beck's take on what stays human. What actually changed and what to bring to your next review.
- Sony Killed the Disc. Read the Fine Print.
Sony's all-digital PlayStation, rising console costs, and Xbox layoffs all point to one shift: platforms are trading ownership for control.
- The Web Just Grew a Toll Booth, and Your Content Is the Road
AI content monetization is here. Cloudflare, X, and OKX just set new rules for who pays to feed AI, and product leaders need a POV fast.
- The Building Is the Story Now
Cultural and hospitality builds are using spatial storytelling to shape experience. Here's what design leaders should take from the new wave.
- The rung you're standing on, and the one you're avoiding
PMs are being asked to finish tasks with AI, not just draft with it. Here's what career resilience actually looks like when the job keeps moving under you.
- The five-person team that deleted its own process
Gusto shipped a product line in 10 weeks with no PM, no Figma, no Jira. Here's what actually changed about who does the work.
- Your agent doesn't have a model problem, it has a plumbing problem
Reliable AI agents come down to state, stress tests, and a launch process, not a smarter model. What that actually looks like in practice.
