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If you're only chatting with AI chatbots through a web interface, you're missing out on the real potential. Pick something and build it. Read: "Everything starts looking like a toy" #296
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Use your Exoskeleton
You can generate more surface area than you can evaluate. When output is cheap, bad ideas multiply. Your judgment is the solution. Read: "Everything…
 • Greg Meyer
Design Navigation from the Inside Out
Don’t make people hunt through menus first. Let them ask for what they want, build it instantly, then save common paths as navigation items later. Read…
 • Greg Meyer
The Three Minute AI Skill Test
Want to get better results from AI? Three minutes turn AI prompts into repeatable skills. Read: “Everything Starts Out Looking Like a Toy" #293
 • Greg Meyer
When Shipping Gets Easy, Choosing Gets Hard
AI makes execution cheap; PM impact now depends on judgment and decision quality. Read: "Everything Starts Out Looking Like a Toy" #292
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Start with a single page web site
DadJokes are a pretty great model for a sample web site. For example: "I tried to tell a joke about recursion… but it just kept coming back." Read…
 • Greg Meyer
From Tickets to Conversations
Chat isn't just support anymore! It's a control surface where users expect instant action, not ticket queues. Time to rethink what customers need. Read…
 • Greg Meyer
Why focusing on the customer journey fixes the ownership problem
The customer journey is the only end-to-end system teams share. Make it your decision tie-breaker to focus on the right problems to solve. Read…
 • Greg Meyer
What do you build when you can build anything?
With AI, everyone can build quickly with fewer engineering resources. Does this reduce or increase problems? Read: "Everything Starts Out Looking Like a…
 • Greg Meyer
A State Machine answers “when” and “why” for customer changes
Status fields capture moments. State machines capture journeys. For anything that changes over time, you need the journey. Read: "Everything Starts Out…
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Data Operations helps product leaders approach integration, automation, and product challenges with an operational mindset. Each weekly issue features a short long-form essay, with one thing that seems like a toy but might be important in the future.
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