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The Product Picnic

Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

Systems Thinking

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When teams don't understand their own product

Nov 23, 2025

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7 min read

When teams don't understand their own product

A usable product starts with the conceptual model, but designers have "optimized" that work out of the profession. It's time to bring it back.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Systems Thinking

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"

Nov 15, 2025

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7 min read

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"

Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Problem Design

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This meeting could have been a picnic

Nov 9, 2025

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6 min read

This meeting could have been a picnic

Well-designed meetings are just as important to our work as well-designed artifacts.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

LLMs

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Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI

Nov 2, 2025

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8 min read

Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI

Andy Jassy wants you to think that velocity can make up for lack of strategy. But "build, measure, learn" only works if you're willing to learn.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Systems Thinking

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The social lives of ideas (Don't Just Do Things, Part 3)

Oct 27, 2025

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6 min read

The social lives of ideas (Don't Just Do Things, Part 3)

No amount of outputs will help maintain unbroken intent all the way through to delivery.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Teamwork and Leadership

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All your problems are people problems (Don't Just Do Things, Part 2)

Oct 19, 2025

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7 min read

All your problems are people problems (Don't Just Do Things, Part 2)

If you want to do strategy, you must be willing to do process transformation first.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov
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