Product Sense Pushups: Personalization Strategies — Customization vs. Automation November 18, 2025 Spotify A large part of Spotify’s personalization comes from it’s shuffling and daylist mechanics. Searching for your daylist directly gives you music recommendations meant… Continue Reading
BUSINESS: Should We Deploy a Gen AI Salesbot? November 11, 2025 Should they deploy a AI chatbot now or wait? The risk: deploying an AI chatbot, as part of the article’s original vision, is a… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushups: Crisis Management — Error States and Recovery November 11, 2025 Slack Slack’s connection error is fairly helpful – it gives a path forward (restarting), makes suggestions for how your settings might be interfering with… Continue Reading
CASE STUDY: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up (Internship Ethics) November 11, 2025 Speaking up to your boss Susan’s big risk is that her boss will receive her concerns poorly. She has been told by her manager… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushups: Subscription Decisions — Paywall and Upgrade Flows November 4, 2025 Spotify Spotify understands that a number of users see the value in streaming unlimited music, but not to the extent that they would pay… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushups: Discovery Patterns — Search and Browse October 28, 2025 Netflix Netflix’s whole goal is to present the best matched content as immediately as possible to create as strong of a perceived value proposition… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushups: Purchase Intent — E-commerce Checkout October 21, 2025 Amazon: buy now was an immediate stand out. One click purchase definitely incentivized easily and quickly buying one thing. If you add to cart,… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushups: Onboarding October 14, 2025 Instagram Prioritizes: contact info, (real) name, birthday, username, and contacts [in that rough order] Cost of each friction point: contact info (negligible, required for… Continue Reading
Eager Sellers Stony Buyers October 11, 2025 Q: How can product managers effectively balance the desire to innovate and introduce new features with the need to address buyer resistance? What strategies… Continue Reading