The Total Impact Matrix helps teams see how product ideas create value for users and the business. It shows that most ideas deliver little or negative impact, urging teams to balance customer and business needs, measure outcomes, and invest in discovery to improve success.
TLDR Product Management 2025-10-17
News & Trends
The Total Impact Matrix - Beyond Blind Bets (12 minute read)
The Total Impact Matrix helps teams see how product ideas create value for users and the business. It shows that most ideas deliver little or negative impact, urging teams to balance customer and business needs, measure outcomes, and invest in discovery to improve success.
The odds of making it (6 minute read)
Reaching $1M ARR is possible but slow, while $10M and $25M are rare. Results vary by vintage and category.
Opinions & Tutorials
As AI eases our cognitive load, we risk losing the very skills that make us human. The antidote is a “feral intellect” nourished by deep reading, real thinking, and deliberate effort.
AI Can Churn Out Financial Advice, But Does It Help Investors? (8 minute read)
AI made Seeking Alpha writers more productive but less insightful. It widened coverage, yet only human-authored articles drove real engagement and market impact.
Resources & Tools
The Meeting Trap: How we turned collaboration into procrastination (5 minute read)
Use meetings to avoid the hard work of writing, deciding, and thinking. Protect deep work by blocking mornings, working async by default, allowing meetings only for a defined decision with a clear owner, moving routine check-ins to the afternoon, and keeping one meeting-free day every week.
How to Lead Through Systems, Not Skills (6 minute read)
Leadership is not about control but about creating systems that empower others. Great leaders share context, define goals, and trust teams to learn and decide for themselves.
Miscellaneous
Prediction: the Successor to Postmodernism (22 minute read)
Prediction defines our new era, shifting society from interpreting the world to forecasting it. In culture, business, and AI, creating value now means contributing information that helps predict what comes next.
Strong co-founders maintain alignment on vision, grow into changing roles, and protect the relationship with simple rituals. Set vows, seek outside support, use nonviolent communication, meet regularly, and revisit roles so the partnership stays healthy as the company scales.
Quick Links
Observe, assert, and validate (3 minute read)
Don’t ask how to help - show it.
How to put Real Progress into Practice (2 minute read)
Real Progress is a dense, practical handbook filled with actionable insights and tools like progress checklists, OKR maps, and evidence matrices to help readers apply its lessons immediately.