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With eight billion people in the world, why are truly original ideas so rare?

Before calendars, did birthdays exist?

In the canvas of the universe, Earth is a dot, and we are a dot within it. And still, our problems feel immense to us.

Most product managers don’t fail because they lack ideas; they fail because they don’t make the right trade-offs. Over the course of my career, I’ve led product organizations building everything from 0→1 products to businesses generating over $600M in revenue spanning hardware, software, AI, and crypto. What I’ve found is that while the domains evolve, the craft of product management remains fundamentally the same. In the fast-paced world of product development, the job of a product manager is not to optimize for a single objective but to balance competing forces. I’ve found that good product managers consistently operate across four objectives:      A. User Experience      B. Profit (Unit Economics)       C. Competitive Advantage      D. Technology Advancement Read more about the four objectives here . The most common mistake product managers make is optimizing for one objective at the expense of the others. These objecti...

The fundamental flaw in the idea that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) can be more intelligent than humans is the assumption that language itself represents intelligence.