Articles
- The platforms just told you what they value. Write it down.
Recent platform decisions emphasize the need for clear policies on AI content and community engagement, urging product leaders to prioritize authenticity and measurable compliance over vague intentions.
- Autonomy stopped promising and started shipping
The shift from demos to real-world deployments in autonomous vehicles signifies a critical juncture for product leaders to reassess ownership of technology layers and prepare for regulatory and safety challenges.
- 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.
- Your Most Credible Creator Might Already Be On Your Payroll
Starbucks is paying baristas to make TikToks. Here's what the creator economy teaches product leaders about building real audience trust.
- Stop Polishing the Screen Nobody Feels
Design leaders are trading surface polish for felt experience. Here's what changed, and what to bring to your next review.
- 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 Compute Bill Is Coming for Your Roadmap
Neocloud megarounds, new AI VC firms, and regional hiring wars are about to reshape your tooling costs and talent market. Here's what changed and what to do.
- The Chips Under Your AI Features Just Got Political
The hardware layer behind your AI features is now a competitive and political fight. Here's what the chip war means for your roadmap.
- Stop Reporting What Your Team Did. Start Reporting What Changed.
How design leaders can tie UX to revenue, defend headcount, and stop getting labeled a cost center. Let me catch you up on what shifted.
- 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 Agent's First Reply Is a Retention Decision
Default prompts, agent tone, and eval scores predict AI feature retention. Here's what the data shows and what to fix on your team first.
- 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.
- Your audience can smell the AI. Here's what they're buying instead.
Scout rebrands, self-funded print zines, and contract playbooks all point one way: creative leaders are betting on authenticity and ownership over AI sameness.
- 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.
- Attention is the product. So is walking away from it.
Tinder made a TikTok dating show while a $59 gadget locks your phone. Here's what the engagement versus attention split means for your product team.
- Your AI Product Doesn't Behave Like Your Old One. Your Metrics Should Change Too.
AI product OKRs should measure what users do, not model accuracy. Here's how to write behavior-based key results and version-control your PM workflow.
- Your AI Budget Just Became a Line Item.
Token rationing is here. Here's how design and product leaders should govern AI inference cost before finance does it for you.
