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Avi Siegel

Published in
Product Coalition

Stop Fighting Your Users to Be Right. Start Listening and Surrender

Your product is fighting a war of attrition. Surrender, and turn user resistance into your greatest ally.

Jan 20

Stop Fighting Your Users to Be Right. Start Listening and Surrender

Jan 20

Published in
UX Collective

Stop building products for your imaginary users

Dear Mary-the-Marketer, you don’t exist — signed, every PM

Jan 18

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Jan 18

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Published in
Entrepreneurship Handbook

Product Tunnel Vision — When Every Feature Feels Critical (But Isn’t)

Hyperfocus is making you build features instead of solutions

Jan 13

Product Tunnel Vision — When Every Feature Feels Critical (But Isn’t)

Jan 13

Published in
Product Coalition

Your Feature Success Metrics Are Worthless

But they don’t have to be. Let’s move beyond performative product analytics.

Jan 10

Your Feature Success Metrics Are Worthless

Jan 10

Published in
Entrepreneurship Handbook

In Defense of Ridiculous Product Ideas

Why the best founders get laughed at before they get rich

Dec 23, 2024

In Defense of Ridiculous Product Ideas

Dec 23, 2024

Published in
UX Collective

Features shouldn’t feel like features

Why (and how) to craft product experiences that feel inevitable

Dec 19, 2024

A Rubik’s cube floating above a man’s open palm

Dec 19, 2024

Published in
The Startup

It’s Not Difficult to Prioritize — You’re Just Not Ruthless Enough

Why being nice is killing your product

Dec 14, 2024

It’s Not Difficult to Prioritize — You’re Just Not Ruthless Enough

Dec 14, 2024

Published in
Product Coalition

The Only Onboarding Metric That Matters Is Time To “Aha!”

And no, Time to Value isn’t the same thing.

Dec 14, 2024

The Only Onboarding Metric That Matters Is Time To “Aha!”

Dec 14, 2024

Published in
Management Matters

Your Employees Can’t Read Your Mind… or Can They?

(no, they can’t — blame the curse of knowledge)

Dec 9, 2024

Your Employees Can’t Read Your Mind… or Can They?

Dec 9, 2024

Published in
Product Coalition

Software Engineers Are Not Fungible

Different engineers. Different skills. Different value.

Dec 3, 2024

Software Engineers Are Not Fungible

Dec 3, 2024

Published in
UX Collective

The not-so-hidden tax of good ideas

You don’t need to pay such a big penalty for innovation

Nov 22, 2024

Picture of a lightbulb with a messy filament and interior, indicating the not-so-hidden messiness even good ideas can result in

Nov 22, 2024

Published in
Product Coalition

Your Product Culture Isn’t Broken — It’s Just Honest

Embrace your beautifully honest product culture and transform tension into your competitive advantage.

Nov 21, 2024

Your Product Culture Isn’t Broken — It’s Just Honest

Nov 21, 2024

Published in
Product Coalition

Does Anyone Really Ever “Complete” a Sprint

Trading sprint theater for real progress

Nov 13, 2024

Does Anyone Really Ever “Complete” a Sprint

Nov 13, 2024

Published in
UX Collective

Great products transcend the Usability vs. Utility debate

Stop making users choose between power and simplicity

Nov 9, 2024

A country road in the dark of night with only the double yellow line visible, disappearing into the distance. Patterns of concentric circles light up the sky.

Nov 9, 2024

Published in
Entrepreneurship Handbook

Don’t Worry About All That Tech Debt

It’s not actually slowing you down

Nov 4, 2024

Don’t Worry About All That Tech Debt

Nov 4, 2024

Published in
Management Matters

Tell Your Team To Be Lazy → Watch Productivity Soar

A counterintuitive strategy for delivering results

Nov 4, 2024

Tell Your Team To Be Lazy → Watch Productivity Soar

Nov 4, 2024

Published in
The Startup

Your Startup Has a Gaslighting Problem (And It Might Be You)

How to stop deploying delusion to production

Oct 30, 2024

Your Startup Has a Gaslighting Problem (And It Might Be You)

Oct 30, 2024

Published in
The Startup

“We’ve always done it this way” — how’s that workin’ out for your startup?

Shake it up or shut it down

Oct 24, 2024

“We’ve always done it this way” — how’s that workin’ out for your startup?

Oct 24, 2024

Published in
Product Coalition

Have You Learned Nothing From Your Retros?

Your team’s favorite waste of time could actually be useful — imagine that!

Oct 23, 2024

Have You Learned Nothing From Your Retros?

Oct 23, 2024

Published in
UX Collective

Ask smarter questions to level up your user interviews

… or do you think you’re already a master at gathering product insights from your users?

Oct 19, 2024

A blue question mark on a salmon-colored background.

Oct 19, 2024

Avi Siegel

Avi Siegel

Applying real-world perspective to product management, leadership, agile, entrepreneurship, and startups. Co-Founder of Momentum (gainmomentum.ai)

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