Matt LeMay
Product management consultant and author of Impact-First Product Teams and Product Management in Practice; wrote about music for Pitchfork for 13 years before working in product.
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Their wordsIn these cases, it’s almost as if the most consequential metric is not how much money the business makes, but whether the business successfully caters to the egos of a few powerful people. These people are usually men. And there are usually one to three of them.
↗The One-to-Three-Men Theorymattlemay.beehiiv.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBeing “impact first” matters a lot when you need to explain and defend the value of your work. But when your perceived value is a function of your power, your title, or your status… well, that’s a very different situation.
↗The One-to-Three-Men Theorymattlemay.beehiiv.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Outside one's expertise, AI makes you more creative but also more impatient and less critical.
Their wordsIn arenas where I don’t have long-standing skill and expertise, AI has undeniably made me more creative. But it’s also made me more impatient—and less (productively) critical. I find myself marveling at the things I’ve “made”, even if I have no idea how they were made at all. Stopping to think feels like slowing down. The sense of intrinsic reward that comes with creative work is there, but it rings shallow.
↗AI and the Romantic Fallacymattlemay.beehiiv.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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AI erases the friction in creative work, and the friction is what makes creative work interesting.
Their wordsWordsworth’s romantic fallacy rhetorically erases the real friction that goes into creative work. AI erases it materially. And it’s exactly why newly minted creatives (myself, in the world of software development, very much included) are in for a rude awakening: the friction is what makes creative work interesting.
↗AI and the Romantic Fallacymattlemay.beehiiv.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsFOMO is a feeling. But it’s also a business model—and increasingly, one of the more successful ones. Fear, in general, makes people much easier to separate from their money. It’s perfectly suited to this moment of ubiquitous grift, where everything feels like a lottery ticket or a multi-level marketing scheme.
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Their wordsThe aesthetic of contemporary AI is tacky and tasteless, somehow both try-hard and lazy.
↗How I Learned to Keep Worrying But Still Like Some Things About AImattlemay.beehiiv.com
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Their wordsUnderstanding what success means to the business at large is a prerequisite for understanding why any product team exists in the first place.
↗Do You Know *Exactly* How Your Business Defines Success?mattlemay.beehiiv.com