How to Think About Product Strategy in the Age of AIDear Reader, Two weeks ago, I had the incredible opportunity to be on Akash's Product Growth Podcast. Now that the episode is out, I can finally share it with you as well. I typically don't put podcast episodes front and center in this newsletter, but since this is more of a 1-hour AI Product Strategy Masterclass than an audio-only podcast, I think it's one of the best pieces of work I've put out to date:
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Product Practice #432 Your Product Strategy Can Be Focused Without Covering Everything PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, If your Product Strategy prioritizes paid customers, what happens to everyone using your product for free? Aakash Gupta raised this question in our Product Growth podcast conversation. At Apollo, the strategic focus was on paid users. But he couldn’t ignore everyone else. It’s a useful tension. A strategy needs to concentrate your effort, while your team...
Product Practice #431 Linked Better Practices over Stacked Best Practices PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, Last week, Julia and I taught our new The AI-Powered PM: From Hype to Agentic Application workshop, and I wanted to share my top three takeaways across our material and participants' takeaways: #1 Effortless Agentic Building Enables True Product Creativity Once everyone locked in on the fundamental agent components of user prompt, system prompt, context, and output,...
Product Practice #429 Linked Better Practices over Stacked Best Practices PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Meet Me Next Week at Just Product 2026 Get your Ticket Dear Reader, When a leadership team wants to introduce OKRs, it can be tempting to start by turning every bullet point of your strategy into an OKR. But a long list of priorities will still compete for the same time and attention, even when it gets repackaged. Before moving into OKR drafting, I like to work through this...