I really want to get into Claude but I can’t get over my phone number being a sign up requirement.
You’re going to have all my thoughts why do you need my phone number?
Oji and Ezinne Udezue (@ojiudezue and @ezinneudezue) have over 50 years of combined product leadership experience across @Atlassian, @Microsoft, @Twitter@wpengine, @Typeform, and @Calendly. They’ve witnessed every major shift in product management—from Waterfall to Agile to AI. Despite their experience, they’re taking beginner AI courses and learning from engineers half their age. Oji is coding more now than in the past decade.
In our conversation, we discuss:
🔸 Why PMs are now often the bottleneck because engineers are moving so fast with AI
🔸 The “shipyard” framework: why the best AI teams embrace controlled chaos
🔸 The three skills that matter most for PMs in 2025: curiosity, humility, and agency
🔸 How to identify “sharp problems”
🔸 Their biggest product lesson from 50 combined years
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On the topic of power, in case you're wondering why our dear country has not had constant power for over 40 years, I outlined the many broken bits of Nigeria's power sector on yesterday's episode of The Intelligence
Anyway, with the new season of Black Mirror out, my critique of the previous season is that it’s become Americanized.
Sensational, molded for the way American audience thinks and consumes art.
Netflix will erode core tenets of a body of work so more (dumb) people can watch it.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix's live-action AVATAR series will make Toph "slightly more feminine" than her animated counterpart, confirms actress Miya Cech! Full quote: https://t.co/uw3OI1YGG9
🚨 YC-backed food supply startup @VendeaseAfrica has restructured employee pay after two rounds of layoffs in five months.
Employees now earn performance-based pay (N140k in February), with full salaries to be restored by Dec if company's targets are met. https://t.co/GcAIEseVUr
Wrapped up a 4-day retreat I led the implementation of from top to bottom yesterday.
I’m in need of multiple sessions of massages but congratulations to myself.
As a Nigerian, you might be wondering: What role should Nigeria play as the global AI race intensifies and China upstages the US with DeepSeek?
The answer lies not in a government effort to build AI systems ourselves but in 1/
One thing my job has taught me, “big” people are way more accessible than you think.
Caveat is you may have to find them physically because some of these people have almost no digital presence. And when you do, act like you’ve been there before.
Life comes at you fast.
Look at me relying heavily on google sheets to organize my entire life. Even taking excel courses lmao. 23 year old me would’ve thrown up at the thought.