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Viability beats feasibility in the AI era

Craft → Product Sense

For an empowered product manager, if your responsibility is value and viability, if you boil it down, that's the real challenge left with ChatGPT or GenAI, is viability becomes even more the important question.

Marty CaganThe disease of process people
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Value means for the customer, viability means for your business. So that means it works for your business. You can sell it, market it. It's legal, you can service it. It's compliance.

Marty CaganProduct management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
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Product managers need to serve the business and it's not a bad thing. If you have a company, it needs to survive and all money is, is oxygen, it lets the company keep going.

Christina WodtkeThe ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
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The things you think you're fighting against are usually the things that are giving your work shape, if you let them be.

Matt LeMayThe one question that saves product careers