Logo
Search
Home
Archive
Tags
Login
Sign Up
The Product Picnic

The Product Picnic

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

LLMs

+1

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

Nov 2, 2025

•

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

+1

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

Oct 27, 2025

•

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

+1

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

Oct 19, 2025

•

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

Problem Design

+1

"Just doing things" is not a path to value (Don't Just Do Things, Part 1)

Oct 12, 2025

•

7 min read

"Just doing things" is not a path to value (Don't Just Do Things, Part 1)

Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

User Agency

UX so bad that it's illegal

Oct 5, 2025

•

6 min read

UX so bad that it's illegal

Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Feedback Loops

+1

"Workslop" was the logical outcome of productivity maxxing

Sep 27, 2025

•

7 min read

"Workslop" was the logical outcome of productivity maxxing

Local throughput optimization always externalizes costs onto downstream colleagues.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov
Load more

The Product Picnic

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

© 2025 The Product Picnic.

Privacy policy

Terms of use

Powered by beehiiv