Quick reminder: we're planning to meet next Tuesday, July 28th. We're diving into the changing roles in product management. And I think this one matters because a lot of folks come into PM thinking there's one way to do it. One archetype. But the reality is way messier and more interesting than that. Want to check to see who is thinking they'll be able to join? If everyone is on holiday, we can postpone to August?

Mind the Product just dropped their Summer 2026 reading list and there are some good ones on here. A few that caught my eye: - Building AI-Powered Products by Dr. Marily Nika — practical frameworks for AI product management across the full lifecycle. No hype, just the actual work. - Product Delight by Dr. Nesrine Changuel — argues that functional reliability alone no longer differentiates. Emotional connection is the new bar. - Life at the Speed of Play by Mark Pincus — his principle is that "all new fails." The most successful products introduce one breakthrough and wrap the rest in the familiar. Counterintuitive and worth sitting with. - Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick — still on a lot of lists for good reason. If you haven't read it yet, summer is the time. Full list here: mindtheproduct.com/the-top-books-and-resources-for-product-builders-summer-2026-edition Now your turn. What are you reading right now — or planning to read — that's making you better at this work? Doesn't have to be a product book. The best ones often aren't. (I'm picking up Life at the Speed of Play and am happy to have a chat about it if others ways to read it!)

Let's plan our next session. Here is the Doodle: https://doodle.com/group-poll/participate/b4v1xwke

There's a particular kind of PM that I call the connective tissue. You're the one making sure everyone's on the same page. You're holding the product vision while also making sure engineering doesn't feel blindsided, design doesn't feel unheard, and leadership knows what's actually happening. You're the glue. And you're probably terrible at taking credit for it. Because the better you are at your job, the more invisible your work becomes. The team moves smoothly. Launches happen. People forget that it's because you held all of that together. But here's the thing: your career doesn't move forward on invisible work. It moves forward on work that people know you did. So I'm curious: How do you balance being the person who makes everyone else successful without disappearing yourself in the process? What does that actually look like for you?