[Weekly Retro] High agency
#257 - Jul.2025
Hi there!
It's been very busy days (some interesting projects coming!) so I wasn't able to send the last Weekly Retro update, but I'm back!
This week I was reflecting on what makes a product leader irreplaceable.
AI is reshaping roles across all industries and product management is no exception. The skills that were valued before aren't as relevant anymore.
I think that the future of product leadership is about agency and taste. The capacity to make decisions and have strong creative judgment over countless options is what will separate great professionals from the average.
Healthy ambition fuels agency. The ambition that drives you to leverage (or develop) your skills to explore new possibilities. The ambition (and courage) to constantly ask "might this work?"
Putting agency in practice means:
- Experiment: pick one small problem. Build something fast to solve it. Learn from the experience
- Question the "how": is there a different way to solve this problem?
- Stop demanding certainty: optimize for speed of learning and iteration.
Create a trustful environment where people aren't afraid of failing.
People in a culture where failure is seen as a defect have no incentive to innovate.
🧪 Things I've been testing
It's simply amazing the speed you can have an application up and running using Claude Code through terminal. The speed of iteration you get over the code, while you test it and improve it, is mind blowing.
With these tools, sometimes it feels that the ideas are now becoming the constraint. The future is for the builders!
👨🏻💻 Interesting links
Ethan Mollick
🖋️ Quote of the week
“Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.” – Clayton Christensen
