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Apr 6, 2026
AI-designed experiences are failing real people. The designer, the PM, the vendor, and the company are all pointing somewhere else.
Product intuition was never about having good ideas. On how to use AI to validate ideas before they consume sprints, credibility, and roadmap space.
Sometimes, over-rotating on a north star metric results in an anti-pattern with unintended side effects. Enter south star metrics. This updated guide covers the 7 types of south star metrics (detrimental, incomplete, out of reach, pressure, inconsequential, nonsensical, and incongruent), each with a definition and a diagnostic to help you spot it in the wild.
Its a popular joke among software engineers that writing overcomplicated, unmaintainable code is a pathway to job security. After all, if youre the only person who can work on a system, they cant fire you. Theres a related take that nobody gets promoted for simplicity: in other words, engineers who deliver overcomplicated crap will be promoted, because their work looks more impressive to non-technical managers.
Receive a hand picked list of the best reads on building products that matter every week. Curated by Anders Toxboe. Published every Tuesday.