Matt Anderson

Should product managers be responsible for a product revenue KPI? Should product managers be measured on revenue? This article explores the risks and rewards of using revenue as a KPI for product teams. Learn when revenue drives the right behaviours, when it demotiv...

Revenue is a complex, multi-factored, and lagging indicator that requires product teams to dynamically identify and address underlying issues like lead generation or churn, rather than treating revenue as a direct task.

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Strike First, Explain Never What is Trump up to with Venezuela?

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The History of Slop Every civilization leaves behind its waste. Ours just scrolls. Before slop meant bad content, it meant survival. In farmyards across…

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Sora app icon: a visual breakdown How the new Sora app icon gives away more than meets the eye.

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Vision isn't a statement. It's a guide. Discover why a great product vision means nothing if it stays on a slide. This article unpacks how Microsoft Teams lost sight of its vision—and how your product team can avoid the same trap by turning...

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YouTube video by IBM Technology What is a Vector Database? Powering Semantic Search & AI Applications

What is a Vector Database? Powering Semantic Search & AI Applications

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YouTube video by Product Science Group Systematically Building & Testing Solutions to Market Opportunities for Successful Product Launches

Systematically Building & Testing Solutions to Market Opportunities for Successful Product Launches www.youtube.com/watch?v=esrp...

The global race for the AI app layer is still on | TechCrunch The U.S. is far ahead of Europe in the race for large AI models, at least in funding. But the picture is different for the application layer, global VC firm Accel highlighted in its 2025 Globalscape r...

The global competition for the AI application layer is intense, with Europe and Israel showing considerable strength, even as the U.S. maintains a lead in funding for large AI models.

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Avoiding bias and building better hiring tools with AI The world's leading product community

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Good Visual Design, Explained To create appealing designs, align type and elements to a grid, build a clear visual hierarchy, use color intentionally, and stay consistent with every design choice.

Good visual design is achieved by intentionally aligning typography and other elements to a grid, establishing a clear visual hierarchy, using color strategically, and maintaining consistency across all design choices.

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From shiny object to sober reality: The vector database story, two years later The promise was intoxicating: Finally, a way to search by meaning rather than by brittle keywords. Just dump your enterprise knowledge into a vector store, connect an LLM and watch magic happen.

From shiny object to sober reality: The vector database story, two years later
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How AI Is Changing Blogging AI is transforming content marketing — but using it right is what separates traffic spikes from real growth.

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Continuous planning in Linear - Linear

The core of this approach involves funneling all incoming ideas and customer feedback into a central location to create "candidate projects" as they emerge, often with AI assistance to maintain and link related concepts.

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UI Design with ChatGPT 5 Generative UI is evolving at lightning speed, and nowadays we can achieve impressive results simply by asking AI tools to generate UIs for…

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Google AI Mode: Powerful Search, Poor Usability Google’s new AI Mode provides a new way to search the web but is hampered by discoverability and navigation issues — especially for AI novices.

Google AI Mode, a new feature combining web search with large language models for information seeking, is powerful but significantly hampered by usability problems.

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A Circling Story – Holly Haworth How can noticing seasonal changes be a radical act in a culture fixated with endless growth? Chronicling the microseasons of the Georgia Piedmont, Holly Haworth witnesses the archetypal story of death...

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Saving the Venus Flytrap: How One Woman Rallied a Town Around Its Weirdest Attraction Despite their outsize hold on popular imagination, Venus flytraps are native to a tiny corner of the globe: the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas. As development threatens, one town—spurred on by one tir...

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A Hippocratic Oath for tech… with teeth From Frankenstein’s dilemma to the Greek agora, history offers blueprints for building tech industry legitimacy.

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What every product manager should know about balancing revenue and user experience Discover how product managers can balance monetization with user trust in search ads

Optimizing for long-term value, such as conversions and user retention, yields more durable business outcomes and loyalty compared to solely focusing on short-term metrics like clicks, which can mislead.

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Is Product Operations a system or a function? | Christine Itwaru — Talking Roadmaps In Episode 15 of Talking Roadmaps, Justin Woods sits down with Christine Itwaru to explore whether Product Operations should be seen as a system or a function. Christine shares best practices like tre...

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System 0: Humanity’s Next Superpower It doesn’t replace us, it reveals us. The future of intelligence is human + machine, thinking together at the speed of context…

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Before you add AI, consider these three fundamentals Not every product needs AI. Use this guide to assess operational costs, scarce talent, and organisational risk, so you can protect profit and make a clear go/no-go.

Product leaders must consider three fundamental elements before incorporating AI into products: operational costs, staffing costs, and business risks, as executive pressure often overlooks these critical impacts.

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How solo Product managers can own go-to-market strategy in lean teams Many early-stage startups lack a dedicated product marketing manager, leaving product managers to own go-to-market strategy alone. This guide breaks down practical GTM frameworks, launch planning tact...

Success in GTM for solo PMs requires strategic boundaries, knowing what tasks to own versus what to push back on, creating scrappy GTM documentation, and identifying essential collaborators (sales, marketing, customer success) early on.

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Leo Robson · Diary: What I Saw at the Movies Jean Epstein compared going to a movie to entering a state of hypnosis, an aesthetic experience that ‘modifies the...

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Second and Long - The American Scholar Why did James Whitehead—poet, fiction writer, and onetime college football player—fail to complete a successor to his celebrated first novel?

Second and Long: Why did James Whitehead—poet, fiction writer, and onetime college football player—fail to complete a successor to his celebrated first novel? theamericanscholar.org/second-and-l... via @longreads.com

The thing that wouldn’t die: why Gothic endures in visual culture Gothic has moved from subcultural spaces into mainstream design practice. What’s causing its resurrection? From album covers and film titles to product branding, book illustrations, and more, we dig i...

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8 Ways Burnout is Secretly Destroying Your Financial Future Burnout doesn’t just wreck your mental health. It takes apart your financial future in many predictable patterns. Brain fog and exhaustion…

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Welcome to the entry-level void: what happens when junior design jobs disappear? Entry-level jobs are disappearing. In their place: unpaid gigs, cold DMs and self-starters scrambling for a foothold. The ladder’s gone – what’s replacing it, and who’s being left behind?

The emerging landscape requires designers to be highly self-directed, leveraging peer networks and AI-assisted projects, but this "audacity tax" disproportionately affects those without financial or social capital, creating uneven pathways into the field.

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How AI writing tools fail to speak to writers Seven design insights from taking Grammarly ads (too) seriously

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Traffic is no longer a reliable growth metric How Webflow is adapting to AI search, which converts 6x higher than Google

Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the next evolution of SEO, requiring a shift in mindset from just ranking for blue links to being understood and referenced by AI systems, while still maintaining SEO fundamentals.

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