PRODUCT MANAGER COACH BLOG
Keep your curiosity.
Sharpen your edge.
Useful ideas for the work you do today—and the product manager you’re becoming.
THE WEALTH EXPERIMENT · FREE FOUNDING COHORT
Two Mondays to a Side Hustle
Practice taking one idea from a problem statement to a small, testable offer. Build a digital product, service offer, or simple prototype, then use real feedback to decide what to improve.
October 26 & November 2, 2026
Mondays, 7–9 p.m. Eastern · Live online · Free
Build with Ashley Kays in the first session, get feedback between Mondays, then refine your work and plan a small launch test in the second. Allow 60–90 minutes between sessions. Teaching and demos include a 30-day replay for registrants.
See the workshop & join the interest list ↗20 live seats planned. Registration is not open yet; the interest list does not reserve a seat. Hosted by The Wealth Experiment.
behind the work.↗
THE CRAFT · 2 min read
What does a product manager actually do? Follow one decision.
A practical look at the work between “we should build this” and a decision worth making.
Read the story ↗More exploring.↗
PROTOTYPE LAB · 2 min read
Your best AI prompt might be a rough sketch.
How to give AI the visual context it needs—and keep your original intent intact.
Read the story ↗More product work.↗
AI WORKFLOWS · 2 min read
Your first n8n workflow should solve one boring problem.
Start small, keep the evidence, and build an automation you can trust enough to use.
Read the story ↗A new direction.↗
YOUR CAREER · 2 min read
Build your way into product management.
Turn the experience you already have into evidence of how you think and work.
Read the story ↗Choose better.↗
PRODUCT PERSPECTIVES · 2 min read
When building gets easier, judgment matters more.
A practical perspective on product management in an AI-enabled team.
Read the story ↗A sharper debate.↗
AI IN PRACTICE · 2 min read
Use Astra to challenge your product thinking.
Give your AI partner evidence, constraints, and permission to disagree.
Read the story ↗More value?↗
STRATEGY · 2 min read
Your roadmap is full. Is your product getting better?
How to connect delivered work to a change that matters for customers.
Read the story ↗a conversation.↗
PRIORITIZATION · 2 min read
A precise score can hide a very uncertain decision.
Use prioritization frameworks to reveal tradeoffs, not to manufacture confidence.
Read the story ↗Not guesswork.↗
ROADMAPPING · 2 min read
A roadmap should create clarity, not accidental promises.
Show direction, evidence, and confidence without pretending every question is settled.
Read the story ↗Listen longer.↗
CUSTOMER RESEARCH · 2 min read
Stop selling your idea during customer interviews.
Learn more by asking what happened than by asking whether your concept sounds good.
Read the story ↗is a beginning.↗
LAUNCH & GROWTH · 2 min read
You launched it. Now help people get value from it.
A practical way to look beyond release day and measure meaningful adoption.
Read the story ↗Useful documents.↗
AI IN PRACTICE · 2 min read
Let AI draft your PRD. Make sure you own the thinking.
Turn an AI-generated document into a clear record of evidence, decisions, and open questions.
Read the story ↗NEW · REMOTE AI WORK
Product managers and remote AI work: how to explore Mercor
Product judgment can be valuable beyond a full-time product role. Learn how to present your expertise for remote project opportunities, understand Mercor's process, and prepare evidence that shows how you make decisions.
Read the Mercor guide →Build a reusable product-management skill
Turn customer feedback into an evidence brief with clear sources, hypotheses and a practical next experiment.
Read the illustrated skill tutorial