Best Of Product Roundup - April 20, 2024
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Top Long-Form Articles
Key skills in AI Product Management
What we liked: succinct explanation of the key ways in which product managers need to think differently when AI is involved, written by two of the world’s experts.
Choice Quote: “Certain types of products and capabilities are very well suited to probabilistic solutions, and others are not. This is perhaps the most fundamental consideration.”
AI for Church + Founder’s discovery process
What we liked: Founder/engineer explains exactly what he learned and how his solution evolved based on thoughtful discovery using AI for a church-based use case.
Choice Quote: “Last autumn, I sat with two executive pastors over lunch at a Spanish tapas restaurant near Palo Alto. Using RAG1 + LLM + text-to-speech, I mocked up an AI that used scripture and past sermon recordings to answer personal questions in the pastor’s voice.”
Defining product insights and why they matter
What we liked: Straight to the point explaining that insights are the true currency of product work.
Choice Quote: “An insight shines new light: we become enlightened to the truth of something. This yields a deeper, intuitive understanding of how that thing really works.”
Top Tweets
Short List of “Tarpit" Startup Ideas (easy to validate but mostly don’t work)
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