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PMFPMF & Discovery
FundamentalsProduct Craft

There are no PM secrets. Just fundamentals done well.

Nine years in product and the problems are always the same. Different industries, different team sizes, different tech stacks — the surface changes. Underneath it's always some ...

2 min read
DeliveryDelivery & Operating System
Problem SolvingExecution

Five PM problems everyone faces and what actually works

The pattern shows up everywhere. Different company, different product, different team — same problems underneath. After enough engagements you stop being surprised by what's bro...

3 min read
PMFPMF & Discovery
DiscoveryUser Research

Discovery isn't a phase. It's a habit.

Most teams treat discovery as a phase. There's a kickoff, a few weeks of research, a synthesis deck, and then the team moves to build. Discovery is something you do at the start...

4 min read
PMFPMF & Discovery
User ResearchDiscovery

Empathy isn't soft. It's how you build the right thing.

Empathy gets dismissed as a soft skill. Something for the people side of the job, irrelevant to the actual decisions about what to build. That framing is wrong twice over. First...

4 min read
DeliveryDelivery & Operating System
PM RoleCareer

What a PM actually does — beyond the job description

PM job descriptions list artefacts. Roadmaps, requirements, specs, OKRs, presentations. They make the role sound like a documentation job. The artefacts are the visible output. ...

4 min read
PMFPMF & Discovery
User ResearchCommunication

Active listening is the most underrated PM skill

PM job descriptions emphasise the speaking work. Stakeholder communication. Presentations. Influencing without authority. Pitching the roadmap. The actually-load-bearing skill i...

4 min read
GrowthGrowth & Metrics
RetentionFeedback Loops

Feedback loops are your fastest path to retention

Most retention work is reactive. The team looks at the cohort curve, sees a drop, runs a campaign, builds a feature, and watches the curve do whatever it does. The teams with th...

4 min read