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Charlie Munger dropped the coldest life advice

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📌 Comment 'AI Sense' + DM me for my guide to AI product sense. Repost to cut the line.

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I reckon product sense is not just BS, but more people need to actively be cultivating their product sense!

What do you think?

aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18h

4. How does AI impact Product Sense?

Now that the price of a feature is approaching zero at the limit, the most important thing is a product sense.

You must demonstrate the ability to act on the knowledge of what features to prune.

And for AI features, you need a unique version of product sense

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18h

𝘞𝘢𝘺 4 - 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴

• Things like AI, cloud, mobile, the internet keep coming.
• Stay ahead of them by thinking ahead on products.
• Don't just follow the news, reason about the future.

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18h

𝘞𝘢𝘺 3 - 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴

• I personally learnt most from following great thinkers.
• Especially extraordinary PMs I worked with (and for).
• Thinkers like Julie Zhuo & Shreyas Doshi also help.

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18h

𝘞𝘢𝘺 2 - 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘴 (1-2𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩)

• Try new products and ask yourself, "WHY!"
• Compare products in the same category.
• Reason about features + strategy.

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18h

𝘞𝘢𝘺 1 - 𝘖𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘴 (2-4𝘹 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩)

• Don't rely on AI unmoderated research sessions alone!
• Actually get out to in-person user sessions.
• Even better, modere them yourself.

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18h

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR PRODUCT SENSE?

4 major ways:

1. Observe people using products
2. Deconstruct everyday products
3. Learn from great product thinkers
4. Study emerging tech trends

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18h

WHAT IT IS

So if it's not BS, what is it?

Here's how I would define it:
"The skill of consistently crafting products that have the intended impact on users."

It's built on deliberate practice of empathy + creativity.

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18h

IS IT BS?

A Reddit thread asked if product sense is bullshit.

I say, 'absolutely not.'

I fall in the Marty Cagan school of thought:
"It's something you can and need to develop."

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 18h

Is product sense bullshit? NO! In fact...

It's perhaps the most important skill for PMs:

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 22h

Ranking companies by how much they pay:

aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

Can vouch from experience:

aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

2021
- 0 followers
- $0 made online

2023:
- 250,000 followers
- $75,000 made online

2024:
- 350,000 followers
- $520,000 made online

2025:
- 425,000 followers
- $1.3M made online

I've grown exponentially in a few years.

You could too.

Start today.

aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

The coldest life advice you'll hear

aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

He cooked:

aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

This system works because you demonstrate value before asking for anything.

📌 Comment 'Pitch' + DM for the step by step system.

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

9. Convert to interview momentum

Prepare your talk track, STAR stories, and pre-answers to feasibility/data/GTM/ethics/timeline.

Feed them to ChatGPT to improve.

🔗 Lewis Lin's guide: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkT...

Decode and Conquer - He Wrote the Book

When it comes to product management interviews, there’s no more authoritative voice than Lewis Lin (author of the legendary Decode and Conquer). His books (o...

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

8. Focus on quick-win patterns

Prove value: audit flows, prototype features, analyze competitors.

Hand ChatGPT the goal & constraints for 5 patterns.

🔗 Guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/ai-pm-job...

The AI PM Job Search System: How to Land a $300K+ Role

Here’s the step-by-step process to leverage AI tools and land interviews at the hottest companies

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

7. Ship a 6-slide pitch

Structure:

Problem →
Evidence →
2 Ideas →
Plan →
Impact

Ask for feedback, not a job.

Let ChatGPT draft the outline from your research.

🔗 Guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/the-how-t...

The How to Get Interviews System: Step-by-Step

Here's the step-by-step process I've used to help 100s land interviews

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

6. Build a "receipts" research pack

Gather 6 receipts: 2 exec quotes, 1 earnings metric, 1 competitor move, 1 customer pain, 1 industry stat.

Drop the company and problem into Perplexity for sourced receipts.

🔗 How: www.news.aakashg.com/p/work-prod...

How to build work products to get jobs

The PM market is brutal—to differentiate, many are turning to the work product. Here's how to actually impress, instead of bungle your opportunity

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

5. Discovery that finds real pain

Ask: What's your 6-month goal? What's blocking it? What's baseline vs. target?

Then use ChatGPT to generate discovery questions that extract metrics & constraints.

🔗 Guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/complete-...

The Ultimate PM Interview Bible: 50+ Posts, 40+ Podcasts & Insider Secrets to Land Your Dream Role

Discover the most comprehensive guide to product manager interviews, compiling expert strategies, frameworks, and company-specific tips to ace behavioral questions, case studies, and more—perfect for beginners to directors

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

4. Value-first outreach

3-touch sequence:

a. Comment on content →
b. Ask advice question →
c. Offer insights for feedback

Give ChatGPT their signal + your angle for copy.

🔗 Step-by-step: www.news.aakashg.com/p/writing-c...

Writing Cold Emails to Get Referrals, Interviews, and Jobs

We've all received our fair share of terrible cold e-mails. Let's celebrate the bad, but also build a first principles mindset to write our own good cold e-mails.

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

3. Build your referral graph

Map 10-15 warm connections per company: hiring managers, skip-levels, peers, cross-functional partners.

Export LinkedIn contacts to ChatGPT to generate icebreakers.

🔗 Guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/interview...

The Art of Winning Interviews via Referral: Complete Guide

Mastering the referral process: step-by-step strategies that actually work, including real case studies from successful job seekers who broke into Amazon, Stripe, and enterprise SaaS companies

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 1d

2. Score & shortlist targets

Build a 10-company scoring sheet: Goal, 6-mo Initiative, Challenge, My Angle, Warm Paths.

Use Perplexity to pull goals from earnings calls in seconds.

🔗 Guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/small-mar...

The Small Market Recruiting Strategy

To find a PM job in a specific niche or geo, with only a few companies to work for, your strategy needs a departure from the large market job application approach.

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