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Every PM Should Be Building Skills

Aman Khan · 5 Mar 2026

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  1. As a product builder or specialist in some way, one of the highest leverage things you could do right now is find ways to encode your knowledge into an agent for it to be used to take action. Skills are the perfect method of doing this.
  2. A well-written skill encodes how you think about a problem, what conventions you follow, what mistakes you’ve learned to avoid. My writing voice skill is 200+ lines of patterns, anti-patterns, and calibration sentences that encode years of figuring out what works. When I share that skill, I’m sharing my judgment, not just a prompt.

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