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[Weekly Retro] Small and quick steps

#250 - May.2025

Weekly Retro is a short e-mail with a wrap-up of ideas from the week, interesting links I found, and food for thought before you head off for the weekend.

Hi there!

💡 Here is a quick idea for the weekend:

The traditional way of managing products does not work for great AI-driven products.

Success in AI product development comes not from building entire & complex solutions upfront, but from identifying and refining features that demonstrate clear value in small steps.

It's about fully embracing experimentation, creating solutions in days, not weeks.

This is a big shift in how we do product discovery where we tend to invest a huge amount of effort upfront. Instead, focusing on having a direct and efficient stream of feedback from customers at each iteration has never been so important as today.

Small & quick steps. Recurrent. Continuous learning.

🧠 Ideas from this week

Simple vs. Simplistic
#249 - Knowledge bites on tech innovation, design, and creativity. Simple is not the same as simplistic.

🛠️ Resources you can download

Mental models for managing AI-driven products: New mindset to navigate the complexities of AI product management. Yes, it's free!

“What if we begin to treat the outputs of chatbots as protected speech and edge closer to believing AIs deserve moral rights?”

📣 Are We Having a Zeitgeist Moment on AI and Humanity?
The Pope, Murderbot, free speech for chatbots, and the strange new frontier of AI ‘welfare’

What we think is corporate politics is more a lack of proper understanding of strong advocacy?

“Politics”
In most of my CPO coaching engagements, we eventually come around to the problem of “politics,” usually framed as frustration with C-level peers doing unexpected or unreasonable or department-centric things. My default response is that we call it “politics” when we’re not good at it, or when it’s

🖋️ Quote of the week

“What kills an idea is people’s urge to express their opinion.” – Jony Ive.
César Rodríguez
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