2025-02-04
Don’t miss February’s Mind the Product conference promotion
The countdown to #mtpcon, Mind the Product’s flagship conference, is on, and we’re bringing you an incredible February-only promotion to help you make the leap and secure your spot at...
Why you should ignore your loudest customers
Learn how to prioritise product development by focusing on the right customers—not just the loudest ones. Discover strategies to identify profitable, repeatable users, gather meaningful feedback, and build a scalable...
Donald Trump’s Executive Orders Aim to Create Jim Crow for Trans People....
Donald Trump’s Executive Orders Aim to Create Jim Crow for Trans People. “The orders also, variously, deny people the ability to exercise control over their own bodies, medical care, and...
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re the most transformative technology to ever…
2025-02-03
LBJ on the Difference between Republicans and Democrats
The LBJ Presidential Library, regarding a largely ad-libbed address Lyndon Johnson gave to a group of 150 non-incumbent Democratic candidates for Congress in 1966: He talked about the difference between...
‘Apple in China’ — New Book by Patrick McGee, Coming in May
Speaking of books, Simon & Schuster announced a new one: Apple isn’t just a brand; it’s the world’s most valuable company and creator of the twenty-first century’s defining product. The...
Rick Reilly’s ‘Commander in Cheat’
Speaking of cheating, my favorite book from Trump’s first term was Rick Reilly’s Commander in Cheat, which I linked to, with an excerpt still available at The Guardian, when it...
Heather Cox Richardson is perhaps too dispassionate in her piece about Trump’s/Musk’s...
Heather Cox Richardson is perhaps too dispassionate in her piece about Trump’s/Musk’s ongoing attempts destroy the US government but these are the facts and her sources list is well-worth making...
Scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder on the 2025 coup: “The people who...
Scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder on the 2025 coup: “The people who now dominate the executive branch of the government…are acting, quite deliberately, to destroy the nation.”
A complete archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025....
A complete archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025. Under the direction of Trump, the CDC has been removing data related to gender, vaccines, and climate change.
‘Don’t Believe Him’
Ezra Klein in an audio essay/transcribed column at The New York Times: That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because...
A simple guide to using Signal for government workers (written by a...
A simple guide to using Signal for government workers (written by a US federal employee). If you need to communicate securely with others (coworkers, journalists, etc.) during this coup attempt,...
Top product management reads: January 2025
January is always the month to pick up tools, get reacquainted with regular practices, and set personal and work goals for the year ahead. On Mind the Product, here is...
Finance skills for product people
Align product decisions with financial success by mastering key metrics, business case modelling, and strategic financial storytelling. Read more » The post Finance skills for product people appeared first on...
The Great Agile Reset: Moving Beyond Frameworks in the Age of AI
TL; DR: Moving Beyond Agile Frameworks in the Agile Reset Remember my article from six months ago about reinventing Hands-on Agile to counter the great agile reset? (Just kidding; of...
2025-02-02
Cabel Sasser: ‘The Snacks & Cereals of 2024’
A delight, as usual. (My one suggestion for 2025’s list: My Dad’s Chips. Holy hell are these good potato chips. I’ve got a particular weakness for the French Onion ones....
Swift Playground Gets an Update and Loses Its Plural
Interesting detail with the latest update to Apple’s app for learning and tinkering with Swift: it’s now named Playground, singular, not Playgrounds, plural. I’m not going to argue that much...
Product Manager Onboarding: Your First 30/60/90 Days
How to drive maximum impact step-by-step. Notion template with a proven PM onboarding framework. What you should do as a PM in your first 30, 60, and 90 days.
Where Are the Bluesky Clients?
Parker Ortolani: Mastodon clients have become the new UI playground in the same way that Twitter clients used to be. But what I can’t wrap my head around is the...
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