MindTheProduct

12/06/2026

Martin Slaney, Product Lead at Bolt.New, breaks down the three early green flags for product-market fit that most teams miss because they’re not on the dashboard.

"A user who is indifferent doesn’t write a three-paragraph diatribe or an all-caps email. They just churn."

3 signals to look for:

1️⃣ Organic referrals from segments you never targeted mean you’ve solved something more universal than you realised
2️⃣ Surprising usage patterns: a retention curve that flattens, even at a small percentage, signals genuine habit formation.
3️⃣ Emotionally-charged complaints : specific, urgent, detailed feedback means users want you to fix it because they want to keep using it.

Read the full article 👉 https://bit.ly/3Q8DJ6l

11/06/2026

"The most dangerous AI knowledge gap in most organisations isn’t on the product team. It’s in the executive suite."

Michael Hirsch argues that product leaders are absorbing the gap between executive enthusiasm and operational reality, and shares how to tackle this.

3 takeaways:

1️⃣ Executives are setting AI direction based on conference keynotes and board pressure, not personal experience
2️⃣ Real organisational AI capability requires engineering the right context, validating the right workflows, and building shared learning
3️⃣ When an executive says “we should use AI for X”, reframe it as an experiment with defined success criteria

Read the full article 👉 https://bit.ly/4v34LuZ

Your executives don't understand AI. That's your problem to solve — Mind the Product

10/06/2026

6 days till London at the Barbican!

What happens when you stop predicting the future and start experiencing it?

At London, Kevin Stewart and Gary Crawford are bringing three radically different AI futures to life through vivid scenarios that may make you laugh, wince, and question everything you're building right now.

Three futures: What's beyond the prompt: 30 minutes that puts you inside the futures you might actually be building towards, whether you know it or not.

🎟️ Grab your ticket before Monday 👉 https://bit.ly/3XNd5Qv

10/06/2026

Mike Song shares why reading frontier lab release notes has become a core product strategy discipline, and introduces the concept of commoditisation risk, which is the risk that frontier AI labs will commoditise your planned work before you ship it.

"Your competitive advantage isn’t building Word integration. It’s knowing that Word integration is coming and focusing your team on things Anthropic won’t build for you."

Read the full article 👉 https://bit.ly/443OcTG

09/06/2026

One week from today, 1,000+ product people will be at the Barbican for hashtag
London. Will you be one of them?

One week until the Barbican becomes the centre of the product world. This year’s incredible line-up:
🎤 April Dunford, Author of the best-selling books Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch
🎤 Jonathan Evens, AI Product Lead at Google DeepMind
🎤 Charity Ibhadon, Global Product Director at WPP
🎤 Professor Brian Cox
🎤 Ben Cook, Deputy Director of Product at NHS England
🎤 Christian Idiodi, Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group
🎤 Martin Eriksson, Author of Decision Stack
🎤 Faith Forster, Founder and CPO at Discoveree.com: For product leaders & makers
🎤 John Moriarty, Design Director at Fin

Join us for a day of fresh inspiration, genuine connections, and practical takeaways you’ll still be using months later.

Check out the full agenda and grab your tickets before they are all gone 👉🏻 Link in bio

08/06/2026

London is next week! 😱

However you say it, is an event not to be missed. Join us at the Barbican and come away a better product person.

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05/06/2026

11 days. That’s all you have left to get your ticket to London at the Barbican.

, Product Management Career Coach and former Amazon product leader, will be running a roundtable on how to stay relevant, employable, and moving forward in this industry.

We’re in turbulent times. James has helped hundreds of PMs and product leaders find more meaning, more money, and more impact in their careers. Now he’s bringing that expertise to the Barbican, and you can bring your questions.

🗓️ 16 June | Barbican, London
Secure your spot 👉 link in bio

04/06/2026

What does it take to lead a product org right now?
That’s exactly what we’re getting into at the Leadership Forum, a dedicated half-day for senior product leaders, taking place on June 16 at CodeNode, London.

We’re bringing world-class product leaders into one room for an afternoon of peer discussions, hands-on learning, and the kind of honest conversation that rarely happens in public.

Here’s what’s in store:
🧠 Resilience by Design — a two-hour interactive workshop with leadership coach Kate Leto, built around the practical, repeatable ways leaders make decisions under pressure

💬 Peer discussions on rebuilding your team for an AI-native world and building influence with senior stakeholders, led by product leaders: Pippa Topp, Martin Eriksson, Randy Silver, Thor Mitchell, Matt Feczko, Faith Forster, Sonia Araujo, Keji Adedeji, Matt LeMay, Hilary Reynolds, Sally Foote, and Joe Dreimann

🎤 A closing conversation with Tiama Hanson-Drury, CPTO at Opus 2, and Todd Olson, Co-Founder and CEO at Pendo.io , the kind of C-suite conversation that usually stays behind closed doors

We’re down to the last few tickets, and June 16 is just around the corner. If this is on your radar, now is the time to secure your spot. 👉 link in bio

03/06/2026

⏰ . London lands at the Barbican on June 16 in less than 2 weeks— and if you haven’t got your ticket yet, now’s the time.

London speaker spotlight 👉 Dan Dalton
🎤 Product needs builders, not bureaucrats

Product has always been a hectic place to be and it has been through a lot in the past 15 years, but with AI, we’ve graduated from hectic to total chaos.

Dan’s talk cuts through the noise: change is inevitable, but what product really needs right now is the same thing we’re always asking ourselves and our stakeholders to do: prioritise. Prioritise energy, soft skills over philosophical debates, and the real traits that make a great product manager.

This is just one of many unmissable talks at .

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02/06/2026

"Resolved tickets do not prove product health. They prove that your support organisation is capable and responsive."

In this article, Mayuri Dekate shares the concept of friction debt, and why recurring support tickets are one of your earliest indicators of product truth.

3 takeaways:

1️⃣ Resolution is not the same as improvement
2️⃣ Product analytics measure behaviour, not comprehension
3️⃣ You don’t need more dashboards

Read the full article 👉 https://bit.ly/3QgaU7W