Best Of Product Roundup - August 16, 2025

The best expert-curated product content from the best product thinkers from around the Internet delivered twice a month.

Every two weeks, we dive into the vast ocean of product content online, both free and paid. We sift through it all to bring you the crème de la crème. Our round-up includes carefully curated links and concise excerpts from top content.

This week’s highlights feature:

• Top 4 Long-Form Articles/Podcasts

• Top 3 Tweets

• Top 3 LinkedIn Posts or Short Videos

Our expert product team has selected these resources to help you save thousands of dollars on unnecessary subscriptions, avoid wasting time reading instead of taking action, and save years following the wrong advice. Our mission is to introduce you to brilliant product thinkers, whether they’re renowned experts or emerging voices.

In case you missed them, here are the posts from Emergent from the past three weeks:

1. (Video) Vibe Coding Influencers are Lying To You (free)

2. (Podcast) The Defense Startup That’s Quietly Disrupting China and Russia (free)

3. (Article) Write perfect prompts with no effort (free+Custom GPT)

4. (Video) The Death of the Middle: Why Average is Over (free)

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Top Long-Form Content

1. How to Create an AI Product Strategy

   1. What we liked: A hot take with an easy to follow 7-step framework on product strategy with AI from an OpenAI product leader.

   2. Choice quote: “Your AI product strategy is the DNA of your product. If the DNA is wrong, no amount of growth hacks or funding will save it.”

2. Why Winners Win

   1. What we liked: Emphasizes some of the patterns that will still win in an AI world including examples from Roblox, Anduril, and more.

   2. Choice quote: “Modelbusters usually take one of two forms: companies with a larger-than-anticipated TAM and companies that add product lines that open up even more opportunities for their business.”