Kasra VaziriProduct Leadership
Product Leadership
Product Sense Is a Practice, Not a Gift You're Born With
Product sense isn't innate taste. It's a trainable practice of habits any PM can run on purpose. Here are the four reps that build it.
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Product Leadership
On leading teams, strategy, and the craft of product.
Product Leadership
Product Leadership
1:1 Meetings Your Team Won't Dread: A Manager's Guide
The 1:1 is the highest-leverage hour you run as a manager, and most are wasted on status. Here's how to make it the report's meeting: cadence, questions to ask, and what to never do.
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Product Leadership
AI Agent Guardrails: Autonomy Is a Product Decision
An AI agent got tricked into leaking private repos by an issue that said "Additionally." The lesson for product teams: how much autonomy you grant an agent isn't a security detail — it's the shape of the feature.
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Product Leadership
Good Product Strategy Is Deciding What Not to Build
Real product strategy is focus and sacrifice. It's mostly the good ideas you choose not to build. On the cost of saying yes, why pleasing everyone is no strategy, and how to make focused bets.
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Product Leadership
AI Gross Margins: Why Your Best Feature Loses Money
Your AI feature ships, users love it, and every interaction quietly burns compute. AI gross margins are running 20–30 points below classic SaaS — and that's a product decision, not a finance one.
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Product Leadership
Your Product Roadmap Should Be Problems, Not Features
Feature-list roadmaps over-promise outputs and lock teams into a solution before they understand the problem. Here is the case for a problem-and-outcome roadmap, how to build one with now-next-later, and how to sell it to stakeholders who want dates and features.
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Product Leadership
Per-Seat Pricing Is Dying — and It's a Product Problem
Per-seat pricing measured logins. AI does the work without them — so the better your product, the less you earn. Why how you charge is now a product decision.
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Product Leadership
AI Evals Are the New PRD for Product Teams
You can't write a spec for a system that never behaves the same way twice. The PRD is dead for AI products. The new core PM artifact is the eval — a graded test set that defines 'good' with a number.
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Product Leadership
Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail, and What the 5% Do Right
MIT found 95% of enterprise AI pilots deliver no measurable ROI. Here's why AI pilots fail — and the unglamorous things the 5% that work do differently.
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Product Leadership
The Product Manager Role Is Splitting Into Two Jobs
AI is automating the PM's old job description. In 2026 the product manager role is splitting into two — and the riskiest place to stand is the middle.
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Product Leadership
Feature Adoption: Why Most of What You Ship Goes Unused
Most software features are rarely or never used. Here's what the feature adoption data really says — and how to ship less, cut more, and build what sticks.
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Product Leadership
Vibe Coding's Bill Is Coming Due for Product Teams
Vibe coding made shipping effortless. Now the maintenance bill is arriving — and it's landing on product teams. Here's what the reckoning means, and how to get ahead of it.
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