Author: Tara
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How AI Is Showing Up in Product Experiences
Keeping up with all the new AI can feel impossible, right? But if we can take a look at some of these developments through the lens of the products we might already be using use every day, it makes it easier to create some context on how to think about them. In the following we’ll…
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Microsoft Recall is Just Creepy
I’ll admit that I’m a screenshot-er. Order confirmation pages, receipts and other things that I think i’ll look at at some point later but never do. But in every instance I’ve taken a screenshot I’ve never wished that something would do this automatically on my behalf, because that would just be creepy. But this is…
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These Prompts 5x’ed Case Study Creation
AI tools are pretty amazing, but without a unified plan on how teams will use them, everyone ends up doing things their own way. This can be great for exploring new methods, but more often than not, it leads to messy, inconsistent outcomes that still need a lot of human work to get them just…
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An AI Empathy Test: Which Model Understands Us Best?
Every two years, a few long-time college friends and I have a week-long reunion that’s as joyous as it is challenging to plan. Trying to decide on dates alone is hard enough and that’s just the beginning. Despite having tested a number of group travel planning apps over the years, I’ve yet to find one…
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App Store Review Insights in Under 10 Minutes with ChatGPT
App store reviews can be a valuable resource for tapping into immediate user feedback and identifying trends. With the help of ChatGPT you can extract some meaningful insights with minimal effort. Here’s a quick, step-by-step guide on how to use ChatGPT to transform the traditionally tedious task of review analysis into a swift and straightforward…
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Get Over Your Fear of Being Annoying
If the title prompted a silent chuckle, you can bet you’re not alone. Every PM knows the tightrope walk between being a thorough communicator and becoming that dreaded pest, a challenge that doesn’t discriminate by experience. That moment of hesitation—whether to voice your thoughts or stay silent—can be agonizing. And yet, despite understanding the critical…
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Time Crimes: How Agencies Self-Sabotage with Timesheets
Many agencies fall into the trap of believing that the mere act of getting people to do their timesheets will magically unlock insights. The time time the herculean effort to get all the time submitted is finished, no one wants to spend a minute more thinking about it. This is completely normal, timesheets do suck,…
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Pass Precision: Winning Outcomes Begin at the Handoff
Every summer Olympics the event I look forward the most is the 4×100 meter finals. Winning here takes more than just speed. The baton exchanges look so easy and they happen so fast but it’s in the four, 30 meter exchange zones where make or break can happen. Imagine you’re in the thick of a…
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The Future-Proof PM
All the things I’ve been able to delegate to AI has me pretty excited for the future. Spinach.io and Otter.ai can transcribe and capture action items and automatically send them out. Writemyprd can setup a PRD structure with the basics so I can spend more time on the parts it’s not so good at, just…
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The MOM: A tool for accelerating team trust.
The Manual of Me has become my go-to-tool for helping good teams get to great.