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A product strategy is your plan for creating the most value possible for your users and your company. And you do this by focusing your time on a small set of really high impact work, rather than diluting your efforts across all the different things you could potentially do.
Product Growth Newsletter
Akashi Gupta
What Strategic Thinking Actually Looks Like
Strategic thinking means turning from the strategic process to the actual core questions:
**Instead of:** "What features should we build?"
**Ask:** "Which customer problems, if solved, would most directly contribute to our company's current priorities?"
**Instead of:** "Leadership hasn't told us who to focus on."
**Ask:** "Based on what we know about business goals, which segments would we focus on if we had to choose today?"
**Instead of:** "Which of [Helmer's 7 Powers](https://click.convertkit-mail2.com/8kuokvewzehoh29wkx5akhk6g2g99s3hxqgw2/owhkhwuwgz7do5tq/aHR0cHM6Ly83cG93ZXJzLmNvbS8=) is the right one to focus on?"
**Ask:** "How can we convince audiences to choose us over alternatives?"
Notice the pattern? Strategic thinking means making explicit choices within your context, even when that context is imperfect.
Why Strategic THINKING Matters More Than THE Strategy
Tim Herbig
• **The spite draft.** Ask AI to write your piece. Read it. Get mad at how bad it is. Write it yourself, better, fueled by righteous indignation.
• **The slop bomb.** Struggling with procrastination? Ask the AI to write it for you and tell it if you do not share your own draft within the hour then it should send the AI-generated slop draft to your editor claiming it is your own work. The threat of humiliation will compel you to get over your writers’ block.
• **The originality test.** Start writing your sentence, then stop halfway through and ask the AI to finish it. If it finishes the sentence the way you were going to, it turns out what you were about to say was not that unique and you might need to think some more.
• **The sparring partner.** If you’re blocked, open Claude and just start talking until you figure out what you actually think. Then close the window and ignore whatever Claude said. You just needed a wall to throw the ball against. Engineers call this rubber ducking. See? Wario!
Writers Are Wario Software Developers
Hilary Gridley
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