Hi friends, so I'm curious to hear about how you're all using AI in your product work? Have you found any interesting use cases, or tools that are helping you be more efficient in your work?

What's up friend! The year is just zipping by isn't it - I hope you all enjoyed Blink! I'm looking forward to the summary call next week (7pm CET on the 7th of March!) This month, we're going to shift gears and read UX Strategy (2nd Edition) by Jamie Levy. The First edition was one of the first books I read on Strategy back in 2016 when I really felt myself taking this 'strategy' thing seriously for the first time. When I heard that Jamie was putting out a 2nd Edition - it went onto my reading list, and I'm pretty excited to dive into it! If you're a Product Strategist, UX Designer, or Product Manager - I'm confident you'll take a lot away from this book - so I hope you'll join me in reading it this month! _________________________ What’s Product Bookclub? _________________________ It's an online bookclub for the members of Product Synthesis - each month I’ll announce a new Product book that I’ll be reading throughout the month, and anyone in the community is welcome to read (or listen) along with me! If you’re like me, and love reading, but don’t have enough people to discuss what you’re learning, then this’ll be perfect for you! We’ll do a mid-way check-in call to discuss our findings on the 21st of March at 14:30 CET, and then I’ll do a live summary where we’ll go deep on the entire book on the 4th of April at 7pm CET to discuss and reflect on what we’ve learned together. You’ll find the calls scheduled in the Calendar, I’m looking forward to seeing some of you there soon! And, If you’ve got any questions - just drop ‘em below! Cheers, David

Hey Everyone, it's time for another Weekly Synthesis! This week we're talking about; - Lot's of exciting Innovation coming out of CES! - More layoffs - time to panic? - What's new in AI this week? - Highlighting some great posts you might have missed! Have a great week everyone! 👊

AI is getting slapped onto anything and everything right now, and there's a lot of interesting shit happening in the space, but there's also a lot of ridiculousness coming out of the space. The one that seems the most ridiculous is the AI Product Manager title. I get that there's specific domain/technology expertise you need to work with an AI product, but how does that differ from any other 'non-ai' product? We don't have 'FinTech Product Managers' or 'Cyber Security Product Managers' - but for some reason we need 'AI Product Managers?' It feels a lot like when UX became the hot new trend in Design like 15 years ago, and before long every designer has slapped UX into their title because it added a few grand to their salary, and then they just cracked on doing the same UI focused work they were doing before. Am I missing something? 🤔

I like to capture the "delightful" touches in products, but usually they're in a folder somewhere that I'll come across only once in a while. I'm thinking I'm not the only one in this group, so I'm offering this thread as a repository for the little delights in products that may not be big enough for their own post. I'll start... This chatbot message caught my eye as something I may like to incorporate for my facilitation business. With the addition of the name, "we're away right now" explanation, and link to schedule a meeting, it feels like a personal invitation to connect, rather than being offloaded to a chatbot.