Topic

Product Management

Essays about product frameworks, PM education, research practice, and the assumptions product teams build into their work.

Product Management Has an Individualistic Ontology

A critique of the assumptions PM frameworks inherit about users, decision-making, and society.

Essay · Apr 2026

Personas simplify research, but they can also compress away the context teams most need to understand.

Essay · Apr 2026

JTBD is useful, but it struggles when the world around a user matters as much as the task itself.

Essay · Apr 2026

Research gets better when teams study practices, environments, and social worlds instead of only user opinions.

Essay · Apr 2026

The PM education pipeline trains teams to see individuals faster than systems, norms, and collective consequences.

Essay · Apr 2026