Product velocity is an org design. Empowered PMs who decide and ship without five approval layers. Almost no gap between who decides and who builds.
Gobi
@gobiraj.bsky.social
Enterprise PM | Platform integration → agentic AI | Writing about building systems that AI agents can actually use | gobiraj.substack.com
Dogfooding turns "a user reported X" into "X annoyed me this morning." Nothing shortens the feedback loop like being forced to live inside your own product. #ProductManagement
Your analytics will tell you a feature isn't used. They will seldom tell you why. "Why" lives in a conversation with a user
Simple framework for continuous improvement: build something, reflect on what happened, simplify, repeat.
PMs obsess over one question: what adds customer value and what's waste to cut? That's the entire job. #ProductManagement
Decouple deploy and release Don't treat shipping code and launching a feature as the same event; every release becomes high-stakes. Use feature flags to split them apart: deploy quietly, release when ready, roll back instantly. #ProductManagement
Having an AI agent is like a direct report that you need to manage Agent: Notified that a domain is expiring on a certain date Me: Ignore it, because it is on auto-renew Agent: Kept nagging Me: I now have an obligation to let the agent know it is taken care of 🤦
Finding meaning in your work isn't a hidden treasure to be discovered outside yourself; it comes from the quality of attention you bring to what you're doing.
Stale context is AI agents' quiet failure mode They're executing against a decision that changed last week and never got updated. Keeping the context current is becoming the new challenge #ProductManagement #AI
AI didn't make discovery less important. It made skipping it more obvious. Fast building is a spotlight on lazy thinking. #ProductManagement #AI
When the machine writes more, humans reviewing it need it in smaller bites to comprehend it. #AI
"AI made everyone faster, but we're not shipping more." Speeding up one station doesn't speed the line. It exposes the next constraint. #ProductManagement #AI
Gating AI tools by job title is like rationing calculators to accounting. AI isn't a coding perk anymore. It's leverage for anyone who thinks for a living. #ProductManagement #AI
Notice where PMs say what they really think: On LinkedIn, everyone's crushing it. In Reddit threads, they admit the challenges and that the job's hard.
If AI can rebuild your features in an afternoon, your features were never the moat. #AI
Career-proofing isn't out-AI-ing the AI(which you cannot). It's standing where it can't reach. #ProductManagement #AI
AI is a multiplier. AI rewards expertise you already have. #ProductManagement #AI
Changing your mind or walking away from something that no longer fits is not a failure
The most underrated source of PM authority: being the person who knows the product as a user better than anyone, what's great, what's broken, what each persona feels. Be the #1 user and your opinions stop being opinions. #ProductManagement
A hook is the opening line or moment whose only job is to make the audience want the next line.
The invisible 80% of PM work won't show up in your review unless you make it. Working out loud isn't bragging. It's the only way quiet work gets counted. #ProductManagement
The newsletter or podcasts that made you sharper three years ago might be making you dumber now. Content drifts, toward sponsors, toward trends, toward repeating itself. Audit your inputs like a portfolio. Cut what's stale. #ProductManagement
Stop selling a better mouse trap. Sell a bigger, scarier and hungrier mouse
Most "this is urgent" in a big company isn't. Learning to tell real urgency from theater is how PMs protect their team's focus, and their own sanity. #ProductManagement
Tesla’s flying Roadster fails every PM prioritization test. Tiny market, regulatory mess, no clear payback. Unless the product isn’t the car but the attention. Expensive demo, or a glimpse of the future? #ProductManagement
A PM’s vibe-coded app isn’t a spec or a blueprint It’s a conversation starter. Its job is to surface the real arguments early, while they’re still cheap to have. #ProductManagement #AI
Agreeableness feels like job security. It's actually how a product rots from the inside while everyone keeps their job. #ProductManagement
Need resources leadership is not ready to commit to? Don't pitch it as a new idea. Attach it to theirs; frame it as advancing a goal leadership already has. #ProductManagement
The best product content I like isn't another framework listicle or a hard-to-consume infographic. It's a practitioner describing a specific, messy problem they had and how they got out. Specificity has the whole value. What about you? #ProductManagement