Best Of Product Roundup - December 21, 2024

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 the top content.

This week’s highlights feature:

• Top 3 Long-Form Articles/Podcasts

• Top 4 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 it saves you years spent trying 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 two weeks:

1. (Video) Are You Understaffed—or Overstaffed—on Product Managers? (paid with free preview)

2. (Video) Four Questions to Master Build vs Buy Decisions (paid with free preview)

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Top Long-Form Content

1. 15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to

   1. What we liked: A practical and qualitative list of the types of use cases where generative AI generally excels and does not.

   2. Choice quote: “Using AI well requires holding opposing ideas in mind: it can be transformative yet must be approached with skepticism, powerful yet prone to subtle failures, essential for some tasks yet actively harmful for others.”

2. 24 AI Tools Ranked from Essential to Forgettable for 2025

   1. What we liked: A fast read for quickly checking if you’re aware of all the key tools making splashes this year. Also has a nice list of tools that are very task specific that only come up in a given context. Savage feedback included!

   2. Choice quote: “Earlier this year, I wrote that Apple can win the personal AI race, assuming they could execute. Unfortunately, the reviews have been almost universally negative.”