#63: See you this week & Conference talk drop
PM news, expert insights, Community and Conference updates, open roles, and events to help you grow your career and network.
🎫 UXCam October event—our first community roundtable.
We are almost ready for our first Q4 event at UXCam with their Director of Product, Kevin Teodoro. What does a Roundtable conversation look like?
In short: it’s a conversation. We’ll gather around the table to share candid lessons from the trenches of building and shipping real AI products. What went wrong, what we learned, and what we’d do differently today.
🔨 From our Keynote, Stefan Ostwald: “Stop building better hammers. Build the carpenter.”
Stefan Ostwald, Co-founder of Parloa, challenged ProductLab attendees to shift from building AI-powered tools to autonomous AI workers. His framework: the walk-away test, 4 design principles, and why you must disrupt yourself while you’re still successful. One client result: 38% increase in customer satisfaction. Read the full article or watch his talk on YouTube.
✳ Introducing Leaders Circles — insights for leaders at every stage.
First article: How AI either amplifies your strategy or destroys it (and how to make sure it’s the former). Brought to you by
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📰 Product Leaders’ Wisdom
Brought to you weekly by Leila Montazeri
Department of Product explores how OpenAI’s new Agent Kit and ChatGPT Apps could become the next major distribution channel for product teams. By letting users “do” more, not just “ask” inside ChatGPT, OpenAI may be creating an AI-era equivalent of the App Store moment.
Diana Stepner captures a shift reshaping product teams, from Shopify to LinkedIn, companies are dissolving rigid roles and celebrating builders over specialists. The new formula? Human + AI = 3. Success now belongs to those who solve problems, not those confined by titles.
Roman Pichler shares five practical ways to master stakeholder management, turning endless meetings and conflicting opinions into real alignment. His five tips show how trust, shared goals, and smart conflict handling can turn stakeholders from blockers into your strongest allies.
Read more on Roman Pichler’s Blog
💪 Open Roles
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🎶 Song of the Newsletter
From our DJ Marco D’Avila
Didn't expect this take. 'Build the carpenter' is such a brilliant reframe of AI's future.