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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.

Problem Design

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The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal.

Oct 4, 2026

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5 min read

The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal.

AI is not a substitute for divergent thinking, and the false certainty it gives will never save you from having to iterate.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Problem Design

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LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.

Sep 27, 2026

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5 min read

LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.

The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Systems Thinking

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Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own

Sep 20, 2026

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5 min read

Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own

Claude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Systems Thinking

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AI hypervigilance is now an omnipresent cognitive load for your users

Sep 13, 2026

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4 min read

AI hypervigilance is now an omnipresent cognitive load for your users

AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Teamwork and Leadership

Sense-making is only productive when it is collective

Aug 23, 2026

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3 min read

Sense-making is only productive when it is collective

The "optimization" you achieve by automating interfaces between colleagues is always going to be self-defeating.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Systems Thinking

No amount of velocity can shield your team from opportunity cost

Aug 16, 2026

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5 min read

No amount of velocity can shield your team from opportunity cost

AKA "LLMs can't fix your shitty internal culture"

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov
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