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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR Product Management 2026-07-07 How fast-growing AI products decide what to build (Sponsor) AI made shipping 10x faster. But when teams can ship daily, the advantage is no longer speed alone. It's knowing what to build. Join Tanmay Jain (Product & Growth at ElevenLabs; ex-Canva, Amazon) and Enterpret CEO Varun Sharma (ex-Scale AI, Amplitude) live, for how the best teams keep customer feedback in the loop while shipping daily: what to measure, what to ignore, and how to decide what to build next. Walk away with a repeatable way to decide what to build next, even while you're shipping daily. Tue, 28 July 2026 · 10am PT / 1pm ET · Save your spot 📱 News & Trends Measuring ≠ Learning (8 minute read) Product metrics are valuable only when they answer a meaningful question and lead to a clear decision. Instead of tracking generic or convenient numbers, teams should define specific measures tied to the user behavior and outcomes they want to change. 46 thoughts on the near future (8 minute read) Rapid AI progress could unlock unprecedented abundance while also concentrating power, disrupting society, and creating major security and governance risks. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials The most profitable skill of the 21st century (not AI) (9 minute read) Understanding human nature helps you capture attention, communicate value, inspire action, and succeed across changing industries and technologies. Why OpenAI is merging Codex and ChatGPT and the future of knowledge work (69 minute video) As AI makes building dramatically faster and cheaper, product work is becoming less about implementation and more about choosing the right problems, evaluating possibilities, and maintaining coherence and quality. The strongest contributors will pair deep expertise with agency, adaptability, and taste, using AI to explore broadly while applying human judgment to deliver exceptional products. 🧑‍💻 Resources & Tools The first agent skills for barcode scanning (Sponsor) Which flavor of barcode, ID, or label scanning best fits your use case? Scandit's Agent Skills answer that in your team's AI coding tool: describe what you're building ("warehouse picking app on Android"), get a recommendation grounded in 15 years of real integrations, then let the agent build it. Try Scandit Agent Skills for free This Is How To Overcome Burnout: 5 Secrets From Philosophy (6 minute read) Burnout often stems from the belief that we should always be working, improving, or maximizing our potential. Recovery requires questioning that pressure, setting boundaries, resting without justification, allowing mental stillness, and deliberately deciding when something is complete. Career advice in the age of AI (5 minute read) As AI handles more defined tasks, career success will depend on choosing meaningful problems, building a strong reputation, and delivering exceptional results. 🎁 Miscellaneous Never mind the prompts, here's the thinking (15 minute read) While AI might not accelerate design projects, it boosts productivity by helping teams align prototypes, specs, and documentation. This frees up time for better decision-making - a task where human judgment, context, and taste remain essential. How To Thrive At Work When You Think Too Much (12 minute read) Deep thinkers thrive by separating self-worth from work, adapting with intention, and protecting the curiosity that makes their work meaningful. ⚡ Quick Links The Emotional Cost of Finding Product-Market Fit (3 minute read) Finding product-market fit is emotionally difficult, but focused experiments, flexibility, reflection, and a trusted co-founder can make the uncertainty easier to manage. “Tell a story” is not helpful advice (3 minute read) Effective storytelling pairs a clear challenge with a satisfying resolution, using a structure suited to the audience's attention span. 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, create your own role or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! TLDR is one of Inc.'s Best Bootstrapped businesses of 2025. If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! Thanks for reading, Ellen Le Manage your subscriptions to our other newsletters on tech, startups, and programming. Or if TLDR Product Management isn't for you, please unsubscribe.