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Introducing the $PONCH Token: Unlocking a World of Entertainment on the TON Blockchain

Ponchiqs Studio is an entertainment ecosystem on the TON blockchain.
The studio offers GameFi, animations, and licensed merchandise.
The $PONCH token provides exclusive benefits and experiences.
It is now available for trading on STOn.fi.

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The Future of Product Management in an Age of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

The job of a Product Manager has heavily relied on established frameworks that help manage complexity while keeping products in line with organizational and customer goals by conducting market and customer research to identify user needs and emerging trends.
AI tools can automate many routine tasks of a Product Manager, freeing them up to focus on strategic interpretation and visionary thinking rather than repetitive research.
By examining user behavior, support tickets, and revenue patterns, AI can advise on backlog priorities with remarkable speed, simulating potential feature impacts on metrics such as engagement or conversion.
Natural language processing helps AI to quickly parse and interpret interviews, support call transcripts, survey responses, and social media discussions to discover user needs.
AI can continuously adjust product roadmaps in response to real-time data, economic indicators, or emerging platform technologies.
Product Managers can take three broad directions to expand their remit in the face of automation; moving upstream to executive level strategy, governance, portfolio oversight or downstream to remain close to the product's implementation by acquiring technical, design, or operational skills to ensure human oversight preserves the creativity required for exceptional products.
Choosing a single path is not necessary as product managers can adopt a “T-shaped” skill set to cultivate depth in one area such as strategic planning.
The rise of powerful AI and, in time, AGI will automate many operational aspects of product management but it’s transformational potential invites a focus on strategic and human-centric dimensions of product leadership.
Product Managers are advised to invest in skill sets that define the future of the craft by advancing their strategic thinking, leadership capabilities, technical craft and design sensitivity to remain essential as interpreters and custodians of automated insights.
The future belongs to product managers who integrate human insight with machine intelligence to shape strategies that are not only profitable but also responsible, inclusive, and impactful.

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Climbing the Product Management Ladder: Insights for Aspiring and Experienced Product Leaders

Product management career offers opportunities for growth and leadership at every stage.
A guide from Associate Product Manager (APM) to Director of Product Management is provided with actionable tips and examples.
Examples of responsibilities and skills at different levels of product management are given.
The importance of aligning initiatives with user feedback and business objectives is highlighted.

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Empowering Ethical Product Management

Ethical product management involves designing, developing, and delivering products that prioritize user well-being, societal good, and sustainability.
It requires balancing business objectives with moral responsibility to ensure products create positive impacts without causing harm.
Challenges include transparency, data protection, and decision-making throughout the product lifecycle.
Examples of ethical product management include digital health apps prioritizing user data privacy and online learning platforms focusing on accessibility for underserved communities.

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Surviving 2025 as a Product Manager — or anyone in tech, really

To survive as a Product Manager or anyone in tech in 2025, it is important to understand the commercial objectives of the company and make thoughtful tradeoffs.
Being able to wear multiple hats and have a strategic mindset can increase chances of getting hired or promoted, especially in smaller companies.
Embracing AI is crucial, as it has the potential to greatly enhance productivity, but it's important to understand its limitations and not become overly reliant on it.
Building a strong network by actively participating in meetups and events can significantly improve job prospects and increase chances of internal referrals.
Handling rejections and setbacks is important by not attaching personal identity too closely to work, finding joy outside of work, and pursuing side projects.

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Unlock Your Future as a Product Leader: 3 Traits to Make You Unstoppable

To be a great Product Leader, it's important to solve real problems, drive results, and be indispensable.
Speed, adaptability, and innovation are key traits for Product Leaders in a fast-moving industry.
Aligning product development with business strategy is transformational and drives revenue growth.
Creating a culture of extreme ownership and delivering consistent results makes a PM irreplaceable.

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Build Your Product Around Motivated Teams: More Than Just a Cliché

In 2013, the writer joined a small company as a developer working on a web application for homeowners.
For three years, the writer was motivated and involved, coaching new team members and seeking to make a tangible difference.
In 2016, after new developers joined the team earning more, the writer approached the CEO for a salary review but was met with disappointment.
The CEO focused on a mistake from a recent release, despite the writer's efforts to rectify it.

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TBM 326: Adhocracies and Bureaucracies

Rapid-growth tech companies operate as adhocracies characterized by startup-wide bridging and fluidity.
In contrast, large enterprises can feel like rigid bureaucracies with centralized rules and mandated ways of working.
The harder it gets to get things done, the more implicit bureaucracy creeps in, discouraging open discussion and heaping complexity on integrative roles.
Leaders sense the creeping bureaucracy and get paranoid, playing process whack-a-mole and singling out individuals instead of digging deeper.
The Organizational Typologies by Dr. Ron Westrum categorizes organizations into three types: pathological, bureaucratic, and generative.
In rapid-growth companies, teams knowingly avoid and work around the global teams, and the pressure is on the global teams to interject and bridge.
Leaders can create even MORE bureaucracy while trying to stamp it out.
Large enterprises that are "transforming" should take inspiration from everywhere to get the train moving (separate the train cars to descale) vs. fixing the train while it is barreling down the tracks (scaling and taming pendulum swings).
Consider the value of scaffolding and temporary process, applicable for both companies that are scaling up and companies looking to de-scale and de-couple.

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Navigating Product Management as a People Pleaser

Many people struggle with saying 'no' and setting boundaries, especially younger generations and women.
As product managers, it's important to overcome people-pleasing tendencies.
Some strategies to navigate product management as a people pleaser include setting clear criteria for trade-offs, practicing structured time management, and focusing on data-backed decisions.
Changing habits takes time, but prioritizing better and creating value for customers and the company is essential.

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Rethinking the Extract Phase of the 3X Framework…

The concept of 'optimization' in the extract phase of the 3X Framework is being questioned.
Mature products need periodic rebirth to stay competitive, going beyond optimization and embracing transformative change.
Periodic rebirth involves refreshing and reinventing the product without replacing it entirely.
Periodic rebirth ensures that a product thrives by staying fresh, competitive, and aligned with market demands.

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The Psychology of Gamification in Everyday Apps

Gamification is the art of turning mundane tasks into fun, rewarding experiences in apps.
It works by creating small moments of victory that release dopamine in the brain.
Loss aversion is another factor, where users are motivated to maintain streaks or avoid breaking chains.
Examples like Duolingo, Fitbit, and Habitica demonstrate how gamification keeps users engaged and motivated.

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The president’s doctor: why your projects take forever

The president’s doctor isn’t busy with other patients but instead waits to be ready for when the president needs them. Similarly, a doctor optimizes their time to be as productive as possible for worker efficiency whereas a president’s doctor optimizes the president’s time for work-unit efficiency.
While Agile and the Toyota Way were created to solve the problem of how to get things done while everyone is busy, most developers still continue to face a common problem wherein their work is slowing down and impacting productivity.
A worker will be responsible for an individual stage and move the work unit onto the next stage only once they have completed their task at the previous one.
There are often multi-stage workflows, which can add to the delay in getting work done when multiple parallel projects attempt to be juggled at the same time, causing work to drastically slow down.
The only way to optimize waiting is to ensure that the queue of work-units is in priority order, where whenever something waits, it does so because the current work-in-progress provides more value.
Partitioning a task into smaller-sized parts and keeping a work-in-progress limit are ideal ways to combat multitasking inertia and optimize for work-units, not workers. Similarly, it is essential to walk the board during daily syncs and deal with `Blocked` labels as soon as possible.
Improving throughput can only be possible when the work to do “Next” is prioritized, with the work already in progress being higher priority than anything else, so that getting that work done sooner will provide meaningful value earlier.
Projects can be optimized for work-unit efficiency, but the waiting times have a cost. Cumulatively, the delay becomes a significant detriment to throughput and productivity.
It is essential to experiment with WIP limits to reduce the number of work-units at any stage, which is an ideal forcing function for increased focus and gets things done quickly.
Waiting deceptively sits “in progress” when nothing constructive is happening, leading to delay, which has a severe impact on productivity. Therefore, optimizing for work-unit efficiency and not just the worker is essential to improve code reviews’ turnaround time.

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Transparent’s Latest Speaker is Brutalist and Architectural

Transparent has released a new speaker that combines architectural design with high-end audio quality.
The Brutalist speaker is made from solid, recycled aluminum and has a distinct tactile aesthetic inspired by 1950s Brutalist architecture.
It features three speakers, including two circular ones on the sides for directional sound and a third embedded near the bottom.
With clean switches and wifi integration, the speaker can connect to streaming platforms and is built to last.

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Game Analysis: Spyke Games’ Tile Busters

Tile Busters incorporates obstacles like crates, ice blocks, and chained tiles, setting it apart from competitors.
Tile Busters presents a clear objective of clearing all tiles, simplifying the gameplay.
While the initial levels are quite simple, the game progresses smoothly, and increasing complexity.
Tile Busters is one of the easiest games in its genre, particularly in terms of level difficulty, and relies on luck.
Tile Busters uses a consistent art style and animations that are smooth and engaging.
The UI features a straightforward layout but can feel cluttered; the aesthetic appears unpolished.
Tile Busters has impressed the market with its high-quality gameplay, quickly reaching the top of the charts.
Tile Busters smartly monetizes the game without alienating players, using ads to boost revenue.
Tile Busters focuses heavily on live events, hosting a variety of events throughout the year.
Tile Busters has found the perfect formula for success with strategic updates, multiplayer features, effective monetization, and a relentless focus on live events.

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Outcome focused roadmaps and Feature Monte Carlo unite!

Roadmaps are often viewed as delivery plans, but they should be continually updated based on new information and feedback.
Effective roadmaps tie the vision, goals, outcomes, and planned features/solutions together.
Software development requires probabilistic thinking, and the Feature Monte Carlo technique helps account for uncertainties.
Using Azure DevOps, a Now/Next/Later X Feature Monte Carlo Roadmap can provide an outcome-oriented view of product direction.

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