AI-First to AI-Native ☝️, from reacting to adjusting 🎯, go deep to build fast ⚡

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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR Product Management 2025-10-03 Reimagine Pricing with Stigg's AI Credits Suite (Sponsor) PM's, meet the easiest way to experiment with pricing. Stigg's new AI Credits Suite lets you launch credits, usage-based, and hybrid models directly on top of Stripe, Zuora, or any billing stack without a rip-and-replace. 👉 Automate balance checks, top-ups, and overage alerts in real time. 👉 Future-proof: start with credits today, scale to seats, usage, or bundles tomorrow. 👉 Purpose-built for SaaS enterprises that need speed, flexibility, and zero engineering bottlenecks Learn More | Book a Demo | Explore AI Credits Suite 📱 News & Trends Moving from AI-First to AI-Native (5 minute read) AI-First layers AI onto existing processes, while AI-Native rebuilds workflows from first principles with AI at the core. Success requires cultural shifts, role redesign, specialized agents, and embedding AI skills across the organization. What do good product metrics look like in 2025? (6 minute read) Strong performers activate users fast, blending sales and product-led motions. Retention drives growth, with early onboarding and activation proving crucial for long-term enterprise success. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials From Reacting to Adjusting (5 minute read) Urgent requests test leadership, not just speed. Strong product managers pause to re-scope, communicate, and calibrate, execute with focus and allies, and then recover by repairing relationships and reflecting for future resilience. Stop Trying To Make Prioritization "Easy" (4 minute read) Prioritization is meant to be hard - it's the balance of ambition, capacity, and investment. Over-optimizing any single dimension creates dysfunction, while continuous dialogue across all three ensures focus, adaptability, and impact. 🧑‍💻 Resources & Tools 10 AI agent workflows to 10x your productivity (Sponsor) Needle has recently launched its agentic automation platform - and they're giving away some insider tips on how to get the most out of your AI agents. Download these 10 free templates (that you can build out in any tool) to automate email, calendar, LinkedIn, and more. Get the templates Go Deep to Build Fast: A Research Thinking Toolkit to Speed Up the Discovery Phase (15 minute read) Leaders must go beyond fast shipping to find problem-solution fit and founder fit. Mellinger's three-phase framework - incubate, immerse, and integrate - creates stronger teams, sharper insights, and products people actually adopt. Reverse impostor syndrome (7 minute read) Reverse imposter syndrome happens when you know you're skilled but lack external recognition, leaving perception misaligned with reality. Overcoming it requires shifting focus from doing great work to positioning it visibly and strategically. 🎁 Miscellaneous The $18 million problem hiding in your tech stack (5 minute read) Tool sprawl drains productivity by burying teams in constant context switching and administrative overhead. True efficiency comes from consolidating tools, reducing friction, and reclaiming focus for meaningful, strategic work. How To Influence Executives: 5 Elements of Persuasive Stories (4 minute read) Stories move people by engaging emotion and memory. Great leaders use them to inspire, persuade, and scale culture with a simple arc: hook, conflict, struggle, change, and action. ⚡ Quick Links How to win in Federal Cloud: it's not just about security (Sponsor) FedRAMP authorizations have doubled in 2025. Join top government and industry leaders in this virtual session as they unpack federal cloud and AI adoption - including strategies to ensure your SaaS solution is "federal-ready". Register now A Practical Path to Building Your First AI Agent (2 minute read) Start with a small problem, use an existing LLM, build a simple workflow, and iterate quickly. Gamification in Education (2 minute read) Education already mirrors games with grades, ranks, and exams. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/b3142ada/9 Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of product management professionals and decision makers, you may want to advertise with us. Want to work at TLDR? 💼 Apply here or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! Thanks for reading, Ellen Le & Sinan Zhang Manage your subscriptions to our other newsletters on tech, startups, and programming. Or if TLDR Product Management isn't for you, please unsubscribe.