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TLDR PRODUCT MANAGEMENT 2025-09-30

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01GENERAL

03OPINIONS & TUTORIALS

11 HARD TRUTHS ABOUT WORKING IN GROWTH

Growth never “arrives”. Goals move, structures block, loops collapse, and retention beats acquisition every time. The best companies unify around one metric, build lovable products, and embrace the messy, temporary nature of growth.

elenaverna.com12 min read

WE WERE HIRED TO DO THE GRUNT WORK

Tech employees often feel trapped in endless busywork, hoping AI will free them to do higher-value work. Yet new tools usually replace one kind of tedium with another, so the grind rarely goes away.

benn.substack.com12 min read

04RESOURCES & TOOLS

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PRODUCT METRICS TO USE INSTEAD OF VANITY METRICS

Vanity metrics like DAU create illusions of progress, while value metrics reveal true customer outcomes, retention, and revenue alignment. Shifting to outcome-based measures drives better decisions, sustainable growth, and product impact.

prodpad.com11 min read

HOW TO REDUCE AI HALLUCINATIONS WITH EVALS

AI hallucinations damage trust and sales. PMs can combat this with structured AI evaluations - setting goals, testing against ground truth, scoring outputs, and continuously monitoring to ensure reliability.

productify.substack.com5 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS