#69: 🎅🤶🎄 Celebration Week before taking a break
PM news, expert insights, Community and Conference updates, open roles, and events to help you grow your career and network.
🍺 Lenny’s Event
Join us for an informal evening!
📅 Tonight, 8th December
📍 Mitte
🎫 Join Us
🎅 ToolTime - Community Xmas Celebration
Instead of the usual format, we’re hosting a cozy Christmas evening in a community-style setting.
A warm, relaxed night of:
- real conversations,
- deep product debates,
- let’s not forget, good food as well
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗲𝘀: our speakers are still joining us.
Marcel Mansfeld, Himadri Joshi, Ankit Dhingra and Alexandru Dorobantu will be there for fireside-style discussions, not formal presentations.
🧑🎄 To make the evening work, we have reduced the total capacity to 50 spots, with only few remaining.
📅 Thursday, December 11th
📍 Friedrichshain, Berlin
😎 Last Recap from our Conference
How Product Managers Survive (and Thrive) When Growth Isn't Enough Anymore
When Bandan Singh moved from Gojek to Booking.com to Rivety, he thought product management was all about user growth and conversion optimization. MAUs, DAUs, experiment after experiment—that was the game.
📰 Product Leaders’ Wisdom
Brought to you weekly by Leila Montazeri
In his latest analysis, How AI Strategy Is Different, Mike Goitein looks at how Otter, Granola, Gamma, and Shopify each made a different strategic bet, not by chasing AI features, but by using AI to deepen the advantages they already had. Their paths highlight a simple idea many teams miss: real differentiation starts with constraints, not models.
It’s not a new release, but it’s worth revisiting, especially in today’s world of overloaded AI and IT teams. In How Small Wins Unleash Creativity, Harvard researchers Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer found that nothing fuels motivation and creativity like making progress, even tiny steps forward. Their study of 12,000 workday diaries shows that small wins consistently lift mood, clarity, and performance more than praise or perks ever could.
What do engineers wish PMs knew? In this conversation, Jay Stansell and Ali Havishji unpack what truly strengthens the PM-engineering partnership: clarity on outcomes, prototypes instead of long PRDs, and honest, empathetic communication. It’s a reminder that great products come from trust, not handoffs.
Watch the full video on Product Coalition.
💪 Open Roles
Brought to you weekly by Alessia Marchi
🎶 Song of the Newsletter
From our DJ Marco D’Avila