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Underrated AI use for PMs: the technical jargon translator. Drop the jargon from an eng meeting into Claude and ask for the ELI5. You stop nodding along to terms you don't know and start actually following the conversation. Comprehension compounds. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Occam’s razor trims away unnecessary assumptions when analyzing reality, while Chekhov’s gun trims away unnecessary details when creating fictional worlds.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Before you hire someone to do the repetitive operational work, ask if the work should even exist. Sometimes the cheapest new hire is an automated workflow, not a headcount. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Start with a minimal direct prompt and only move up to higher levels of structure when the task's complexity, risk, or need for reusable tool control justifies the extra effort. arxiv.org/html/2609....

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The best defense against politics isn't playing the game better. It's building something undeniable. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PMs: Corralling chaos is not a distraction to your work Most days, it IS the job. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not every B2B customer wants AI in their product. Some actively resent it. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Before reacting to anything, pause and ask whether what's troubling you is a fact about the world or a judgment you've added to a fact about the world - Epictetus

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watched a PM get asked about a line in their own roadmap doc and... not know the answer. "Maybe that's not applicable, not sure why I wrote that." You didn't write it. AI did. You just didn't read it before presenting. Are you seeing a lot of AI slop in your line of work?

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When my distributed eng team goes on holiday, I feel two things at once: Relief - finally, no back-and-forth midnight Slack messages Dread - what if prod breaks

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most workflows should just stay deterministic. AI where the fuzziness adds value. Plain old code everywhere else. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In moments of high stress — an outage, a tense talk, a project sliding — jumping to conclusions causes compounding mistakes. Taking thirty seconds to suspend judgment prevents "premature closure," ensuring your decisions are grounded in reality rather than panicked assumptions.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Strip product management down and it's three questions about anything you might build: 1️⃣ Should we? 2️⃣ Why? 3️⃣ Why now? #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

PMs: Suppose every decision is made above your team and handed down. You're not managing product. You're managing a backlog. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Don't pass raw user feedback straight to your engineers. "This is garbage..." helps no one Your job is to translate venting into actionable insight. Protecting the team's morale is part of managing the product. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

AI is brilliant at augmenting a workflow you understand and useless as a solution hunting for a problem. Start with the problem. Always. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Years of repetitive practice produces genuine understanding. You couldn't fake it

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Write the first draft yourself, then let AI refine it. Reverse that order, and you never build the underlying judgment; it is too convenient to accept whatever the model hands you. Create from scratch, then polish. #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Quality in the final product is inseparable from the quality of attention sustained throughout every repetitive, unglamorous step leading to it

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every skill you outsource to AI is a muscle you stop training. If you don't know how to do the work, you cannot innovate. Do some of the "routine" thinking by hand. On purpose. #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The recent debate is about whether foldable phones are "useful" Wrong lens A big chunk of premium purchases is driven by status and delight, not utility Sometimes the job to be done is "feel something when I pull this out of my pocket" That's a real JTBD. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Validate before you build" is great advice until the feature comes straight from leadership. You don't always get to run discovery. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Same AI tools. Wildly different results. Some teams 10x their output; others barely notice it's there. Which camp is your team in? #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Recent discussions: AI-generated requirements are difficult to read and comprehend A human PM writing for a specific eng team calibrates language, depth, and assumed context to that audience. AI defaults to a generic style that doesn't account for where a team is. #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Theory without execution scars is a beautiful deck that ships nothing. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Context rot isn't running out of tokens. It's poisoning (hallucinations echoed as fact), distraction (noise crowding signal), and lost-in-the-middle bias. Bigger context windows won't fix it. Option to fix context rot 🧵👇 1/3

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In the AI era, "Can you explain your own reasoning without AI?" is becoming the real skills test. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"AI slop" is polished, confident, and quietly wrong. #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Motivation sets the destination; habit is the vehicle that will actually gets you there.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In the AI era, the only defensible layer is proprietary data, workflows, and the system of record that users are locked into. The holistic system is the product, and AI is a capability within it #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Everyone can be a PM” sounds great until conflicts arise Customer needs vs. revenue. Speed vs. quality. Strategy vs. stakeholder pressure. PM isn’t about having opinions. It’s about making the trade-off when every option has a cost. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Teaching humans is hard; teaching AI is harder #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nobody remembers what your badge said. They remember what you shipped. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Use AI to manage the busywork. Keep your hands on the judgment. That split is becoming the whole game now. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The hardest thing to design into an ambient AI feature isn't when it speaks. It's when it pauses and waits for the right moment. It is easy to generate a suggestion. Knowing when to nudge the human and when it should stay silent is the actual craft. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What you can't control is trying to teach you something Stop asking "How do I make this situation stop?" and start asking "What kind of person do I want to be while navigating this?"

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Don't refuse new scope. Reframe it as a trade. "I can do X or Y this quarter, not both. Which matters more?" Refusal makes you seem difficult to work with. Anything can be done, but not everything. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The best AI assist is the one that shows up where you work and with the right context For this reason alone, I use Gemini in Chrome rather than other LLMs #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Intelligence will solve many of your problems. Wisdom determines which problems are worth solving and what kind of person you become in solving them.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits." - Aristotle

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

2026 Prediction: By 2030, the role of product manager will cease to exist productsthatcount.or... Do you agree or disagree with this prediction?

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The newest AI model may not automatically be the right one for your use case. Teams regularly keep finding the older, stable model quietly beats the new one on cost and reliability. #ProductManagement #AI

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Viktor Frankl said meaning comes from 3 places: what you create, what you experience, and how you respond to what you can't fix. None of them require your work to be important.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not able to get leadership buy-in to invest in UX: Make them do a real task using the product. Nothing converts a skeptic faster than five minutes as a real user. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Victor Frankl's framework: Instead of asking "how do I find meaning in my work," you ask: what is my work, right now, asking of me?

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Want to align a team on a vision fast? Amazon Working Backwards Approach: Have them write the press release for the day the product succeeds. Nothing exposes fuzzy thinking like being forced to describe the win in plain language before you've built a thing. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The gospel of "one metric that matters" quietly breaks at scale. A mature product with one north star is a product ignoring four fires. #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Philosophy isn't a body of knowledge to acquire. It's a habit of attention to develop.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The "V" in MVP isn't universal. For a PM, it means "the smallest thing that teaches us something." For leadership, it means "the launch that we can sell" #ProductManagement

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

PMs own the metric your product touches, adoption, activation, and stop apologizing for revenue numbers sales controls. #ProductManagement

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