critical thinking
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Deciding What Not to Build
Feature requests are easy to accept and hard to undo. Real product discipline shows up in deciding what not to build, and keeping the roadmap aligned with what the product is actually for.
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When Systems Get Amnesia
Systems are supposed to make work easier, not heavier. But over time, even good ones start serving themselves. Here’s how to keep structure useful and keep the purpose in sight.
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Seeing Patterns Is a Superpower
Systems thinking teaches you to see beyond features, metrics, or teams, to notice the patterns that keep shaping results. For product managers, that’s not theory, it’s how you stop firefighting and start understanding why things happen the way they do.
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On Staying Sharp in an Age of the Machines
There was a time when simply knowing your stuff was enough to get ahead. But now, we are surrounded by knowledge. It’s not what you know, but how you think about it that matters. The challenge isn’t finding facts, it’s framing them. Perspective is what we need the most.
Florin Branici 