Best Of Product Roundup - July 5, 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 4 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) The Secret to Sales? Shut Up. (free)

2. (Video) Equity Math Every Startup Should Understand (free)

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Top Long-Form Content

1. How to build prototypes that actually look like your product (podcast)

   1. What we liked: For anyone experimenting with design prototyping tools, the disconnect between what AI generates and what your engineers see in production can be a major communication problem. Plus, we wrote a similar piece months ago, and this goes far beyond!

   2. Choice quote: “These tools can be used by anyone on the team…there’s no limit on who’s allowed to have ideas.”

2. The rise of the AI-native employee

   1. What we liked: A clear redefinition of modern productivity that reframes AI fluency not as a skill set but as a mindset. We also love that the author wasn’t working in these cultures previously, so the contrast is stark.

   2. Choice quote: “An AI-native employee isn’t someone who ‘uses AI.’ It’s someone who defaults to AI.”