Blackblot® - Product Management Expertise™

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➡️ Blackblot Newsletter Content Shift – The demand is clear: more answers on careers, the job market, and the impact of broader technology trends on employment.

Blackblot Newsletter Content Shift

The principles guiding the Product Manager role and the product management domain remain the same, but product managers' interests and concerns have shifted dramatically.

Today, the primary focus for many in tech is career management and job security in the face of ongoing layoffs and a difficult job market, not only for product managers, but across every role in the entire technology industry.

People continue to turn to Blackblot for professional guidance, ways to strengthen product management competence through PMTK, and opportunities to upskill.

However, product managers are increasingly asking us to help make sense of what the future of product management and the technology industry may look like.

The current upheaval in tech is being driven by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry.

Previous technological disruptions, including the Internet, the web, social media, mobile computing, and cloud technologies, ultimately created economic growth, new opportunities, and new jobs across the tech world.

Artificial Intelligence technology differs in that it offers a vision in which AI will put anyone sitting at a computer screen out of a job.

The AI industry is also seeking billions of dollars from investors and the US federal government to help advance that vision of putting people out of a job.

We do not believe that the AI vision of mass unemployment will ultimately come to pass, and we expect the current AI bubble to eventually implode. Until then, however, we are likely to experience significant disruption, which is felt by many.

Consequently, content demand and interest among product managers has now shifted toward careers, the job market, and broader technology trends, rather than exclusively toward professional topics such as writing PRDs or building roadmaps.

At Blackblot, we will continue to explain the current tech industry situation clearly and candidly, and offer guidance on how to navigate it.

In this edition of the newsletter, we are sharing several of our recent articles focused on developments in the technology industry and on clarifying current trends.

➡️ The Real Drivers of Layoffs – Alternative causes for the ongoing layoffs beyond AI (LinkedIn, Medium).

➡️ The Fallacy of Generalizing – Corporate motives for the illusion of ownership (LinkedIn, Medium).

➡️ The Product Fieldmarshal – Cutting through the cycle of meaningless product roles title inflation (LinkedIn, Medium).

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Empower your product management journey with wisdom. Visit Gabriel Steinhardt's Amazon Author Page to explore the full book collection and select the best format.

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