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You Can’t Hire Product Thinkers in the AI Era with Execution Interviews Alone

Aug 14, 2025

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4 min read

You Can’t Hire Product Thinkers in the AI Era with Execution Interviews Alone

When any LLM can solve your coding problem in five seconds, interviewing for “the right answer” is interviewing for the past.

Matt Watson
Matt Watson
Delegation Isn’t Done Until You Clear These 5 Hurdles

Aug 7, 2025

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2 min read

Delegation Isn’t Done Until You Clear These 5 Hurdles

Handing off tickets doesn’t buy you a good night’s sleep.

Matt Watson
Matt Watson
How I Vet a Technical Co-Founder

Jul 31, 2025

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2 min read

How I Vet a Technical Co-Founder

When a founder tells me they “just need a CTO,” my first question is which one.

Matt Watson
Matt Watson
What Kind of CTO Are You Becoming?

Jul 24, 2025

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2 min read

What Kind of CTO Are You Becoming?

Most CTOs don’t get hired into the role.

Matt Watson
Matt Watson
How to Build Feedback Loops Your Engineers Will Actually Use

Jul 17, 2025

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2 min read

How to Build Feedback Loops Your Engineers Will Actually Use

And Why Today’s the Day to Start

Matt Watson
Matt Watson
500 Hours, 20 Years: What I Learned Writing the Engineering Leadership Playbook

Jul 15, 2025

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2 min read

500 Hours, 20 Years: What I Learned Writing the Engineering Leadership Playbook

It’s here! The first copy of Product Driven!

Matt Watson
Matt Watson
When Engineers Aren’t the Bottleneck Anymore, Your Process Better Catch Up

Jul 10, 2025

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3 min read

When Engineers Aren’t the Bottleneck Anymore, Your Process Better Catch Up

We spent years trying to make engineers faster.

Matt Watson
Matt Watson
You Can’t Build for Users You Don’t Understand

Jul 3, 2025

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3 min read

You Can’t Build for Users You Don’t Understand

How Boddle's Product-Driven Approach Built Educational Games That Kids Ask Parents to Buy

Matt Watson
Matt Watson
The Feedback Ladder: From Code Review to Customer Insights

Jun 26, 2025

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2 min read

The Feedback Ladder: From Code Review to Customer Insights

I’ve worked with hundreds of developers over the years.

Matt Watson
Matt Watson
Product-Led Doesn’t Mean Feature-Rich

Jun 19, 2025

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2 min read

Product-Led Doesn’t Mean Feature-Rich

When most people hear “product-led growth,” they picture a slick, feature-packed app with a frictionless free trial and a viral loop baked into onboarding.

What It Means to Be an AI-Ready Engineering Leader

Jun 12, 2025

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3 min read

What It Means to Be an AI-Ready Engineering Leader

You don’t need to have a full AI roadmap.

If You’re Missing This, Your Best Engineers Are Quietly Checking Out

Jun 5, 2025

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2 min read

If You’re Missing This, Your Best Engineers Are Quietly Checking Out

No one announces it.

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