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Product. 2x founder, 2x acquired. Post about product management, startups, and growth. Subscribe: alexdebecker.substack.com
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Another normal day on LinkedIn

I find myself refining and refining and refining my PRD template. They get too complicated fast, and then no one reads them. At its most basic core, a PRD should cover these 3 sections:

Imagine getting that text

How do you get developers to test their own features? Asking for a friend.

The first person to say ‘hey fellows’ gets an instant ban.

We are so back. Open product roles are finally on the rise across the board in February (except in Latin America where open roles are down ~3%). It's a good little breather as we just experienced two harsh down months in a row before that, phew. More insights thebacklog.beehiiv.com/p/the-state-...

Reminder: celebrate the wins during your retros. Retros are often seen as a way to get better, improve, learn from mistakes. But they're also a great place to celebrate individual or team successes.

So much AI slop the Author's Guild came out with a 'written by a human' book badge. Probably fine.

Churchill on tarifs in the early 1900s, still relevant today: “Trying to tax yourself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

Someone reached out to me on LinkedIn asking for career advice. I saw his questions over the weekend, mulled them over for a few days, and typed a long personalised answer to them this morning. His answer:

Wannabe 'contrarian' PMs love to say "There is no version 2"; throwing a little mysterious wink along with the statement. Makes no sense to me. There definitely is a version 2: alexdebecker.substack.com/p/there-is-a...

Gergely clearly doesn’t understand the user story that drove this decision. Let me help! As a: Google product manager I want to: make AI mandatory everywhere within Google products Because: I am a complete piece of shit