Product Management Trends: 11 Shifts Shaping 2026
Product School roundup from ProductCon speakers and podcast guests — roadmaps vs principles, AI prototypes, outcome-based planning, and how PM teams are operating in 2026.
- Product management
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Clips I return to — experiments, behavior, systems, and builder lore.
Product management
Everything a product manager needs to know about experiments
Everything a product manager needs to know about experiments
Open article →Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops | WIRED
Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops | WIRED
Open article →How DropBox Started As A Minimal Viable Product | TechCrunch
How DropBox Started As A Minimal Viable Product | TechCrunch
Open article →Artificial Intelligence
AI Index Report 2026
Stanford HAI annual report on AI research, industry, policy, and public opinion — model capabilities, investment, regulation, and how the field is shifting.
- AI research
How LLMs See the World
How LLMs See the World
- Generative AI
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 - Wait But Why
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 - Wait But Why
Open article →What I think is the next pocket computing device, after the smartphone
The era of the app is ending. The next leap in personal computing isn't a better phone; it's a new category of device.
- Technology
- Generative AI
- Product
- Future Tech
Psychology
How bad experiences in childhood lead to adult illness | Aeon
How bad experiences in childhood lead to adult illness | Aeon
Open article →Revisiting Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments
Revisiting Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments
Open article →The Evolution of Trust
Nicky Case's interactive explainer on the game theory of cooperation — why trust evolves or breaks down, and what repeated games teach us about building it.
- Game theory
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
Open article →Tech & more
Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future
Tim Urban's deep dive on Elon Musk's Neuralink — how the brain evolved, what brain-machine interfaces could unlock, and the path toward a merged human-AI future.
- Wait But Why
Status as a Service (StaaS)
Eugene Wei on why social networks are best understood as businesses that sell status — how social capital scales, why networks rise and fall, and what that means for builders.
- Social networks
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
Paul Graham on how technological progress concentrates pleasure — and why the world is getting more addictive, faster, than our customs can keep up with.
- Paul Graham
What it needs to be a Good Web Developer
Quora article on the traits and habits that make a good web developer — beyond syntax and frameworks.
- Quora