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Dangerous Animals of Product Management
  • HiPPO: Highest Paid Person’s Opinion
  • ZEbRA: Zero Evidence But Really Arrogant
  • Seagull: Seagull Manager
  • WoLF: Works on Latest Fire
  • RHiNO: Really High-value New Opportunity
  • PUFFIN: Plans Unending Feature Factory Initiatives
  • GOOSE: Guesstimating Overly Optimistic Scheduling Estimates
  • PUMA: Promotes Unusually Meaningless Assumptions
  • CoBRA: Cognitive Bias Related…
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AI mandates are a demand for cognitive surrender

Urgency without direction is eating the industry alive.

Every time someone involved in the process decides to “just AI it,” the chain of provenance breaks. Instead of building a mental model in manageable increments, we are now asked to absorb massive chunks of output being flung our way all at once.

Artifacts that don’t exist on the fidelity cascade (such as power maps) are the only…

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