Best Of Product Roundup - November 8, 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 3 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.

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Top Long-Form Content

1. Beyond “AI Product Managers” - How Proper PMs Can Start Thinking About AI Product Strategy

   1. What we liked: A refreshingly contrarian take that challenges the “AI Product Manager” title craze with a simple, actionable framework for deciding which AI initiatives actually deserve investment versus which are just checkbox exercises for boards.

   2. Choice quote: “If everyone’s super for wrapping an LLM into their product, then no one is.”

2. 13 Product-building Lessons from Palantir

   1. What we liked: Real war stories from the trenches with specific examples of what went wrong and why, from building calculator widgets that users rejected to managing custom deployments that nearly sank into technical debt - lessons you can’t get from frameworks.

   2. Choice quote: “Secondhand understanding is almost always incomplete. When engineers only read tickets or summaries, they miss the context that shapes a user’s real-world decisions.”