Product work isn’t just about speed. It’s about 100s of micro-decisions that quietly attach you to what you build, constrain future choices, and determine outcomes before success or failure is visible
Masterpiece! It would be rare to get such a profound understanding from an ‘Exceptional’ professional. Only one who lived these experiences and evolved from average to exceptional could put this together in words. I wonder if every great professional goes through such journey or is it just randomness.
Loss aversion is the underlying psychological engine that turns ordinary building into attachment, attachment into bad micro-decisions, and bad micro-decisions into failing products.
Killing a feature feels like:
• Losing the time invested
• Losing part of your identity
• Losing the sense of progress
• Losing the story you tell your team/executives and yourself.
It took me approximately 1hr to get to the end of it. But I’m so happy that I decided to read the full post. At the beginning I was sure that I understand what it means. After reading I’m sure I was wrong. As claude says “understand the context and do the work”, same can be applied to understanding this very post.
Thanks a lot! This requires reading and re-reading just like the post on listening. The way you nudge claude just enough and it gets, it understands. That probably is more surprising for me. Keep sharing!
The idea that “just build” advice from exceptional builders is often dangerous for the rest of us really reframes so much of the PM canon for me. The attachment + shackles lens explains not just product debt, but the quiet ways our past decisions hijack future judgment.
Would love that audio deep-dive.
This is the kind of piece that deserves to be re-read (and re-listened to) every few months as a calibration check on how I’m really making product decisions day to day.
Thanks for including the Claude dialogue. It helped deepen my understanding of your short post. As an average PM, this gives me some good things to think about.
I would be interested in the audio version. I enjoyed the one on listening.
That’s an interesting format to show the evolution of the process. I believe that people form heuristics that create their informal framework to making everyday decisions. We do this without realising it. We borrow from others to build our unique set. Thanks to Bent Flyvberg for introducing me to heuristics and to you Shreyas for not just sharing yours but sharing their development.
Masterpiece! It would be rare to get such a profound understanding from an ‘Exceptional’ professional. Only one who lived these experiences and evolved from average to exceptional could put this together in words. I wonder if every great professional goes through such journey or is it just randomness.
Loss aversion is the underlying psychological engine that turns ordinary building into attachment, attachment into bad micro-decisions, and bad micro-decisions into failing products.
Killing a feature feels like:
• Losing the time invested
• Losing part of your identity
• Losing the sense of progress
• Losing the story you tell your team/executives and yourself.
Thanks for sharing this with us. I specifically liked the way you had the conversation and called out claude, to shape this piece.
Brilliant Piece! So much clarity and profoundness packed in one tweet! And deep dive with Claude revealed the flaws in human and AI thinking.
It took me approximately 1hr to get to the end of it. But I’m so happy that I decided to read the full post. At the beginning I was sure that I understand what it means. After reading I’m sure I was wrong. As claude says “understand the context and do the work”, same can be applied to understanding this very post.
Thanks a lot! This requires reading and re-reading just like the post on listening. The way you nudge claude just enough and it gets, it understands. That probably is more surprising for me. Keep sharing!
"We lack vocabulary for thinking failures." Such a beautiful and profound sentence.
Thanks for sharing.
This was deep on so may levels. Needed slow reading to digest the conversation and understand the implications. Thank you for sharing.
The idea that “just build” advice from exceptional builders is often dangerous for the rest of us really reframes so much of the PM canon for me. The attachment + shackles lens explains not just product debt, but the quiet ways our past decisions hijack future judgment.
Would love that audio deep-dive.
This is the kind of piece that deserves to be re-read (and re-listened to) every few months as a calibration check on how I’m really making product decisions day to day.
Thinking is hard, Product thinking is harder, and Thoughtful product thinking is the hardest. Thank you @Shreyas Doshi for sharing.
This was an absolute banger. Loved the claude conversation you put in. So much clarity because of it.
Thanks for including the Claude dialogue. It helped deepen my understanding of your short post. As an average PM, this gives me some good things to think about.
I would be interested in the audio version. I enjoyed the one on listening.
Thanks for sharing this post. I appreciate the depth, analysis and insightful context.
If you were to look at most posts these days, it seems like being a successful PM = AI skills and nothing else.
Still reflecting on this. Would love an audio deeper dive.
Great peace! And super cool of you to share your whole process of thinking with Claude here.
That’s an interesting format to show the evolution of the process. I believe that people form heuristics that create their informal framework to making everyday decisions. We do this without realising it. We borrow from others to build our unique set. Thanks to Bent Flyvberg for introducing me to heuristics and to you Shreyas for not just sharing yours but sharing their development.