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The Steady Beat - Issue 24.08.5
Modular organizational design, the history of continuous coordination, differentiating your design portfolio, and an incoming fix for dates and times in Java...

The Steady Beat - Issue 24.08.4
Trusting AI for building UX, Eric Schmidt makes an instantly disputed claim about remote work, Stripe's monolith, and why we're addicted to meetings.

The Steady Beat - Issue 24.08.3
Bad AI leads to bad UX, expanding product teams, powering up with Python, and avoiding the management track.

The Steady Beat - Issue 24.08.2
Andy Warhol's code repository, product management for Xerox copiers, practical AI for developers, and striving for "good enough."

The Steady Beat - Issue 24.08.1
Neither likely nor unlikely votes, fractional leadership, a falcon fail, and a closer look at the metric of metrics.

The Steady Beat - Issue 24.07.3
Using LLMs to test LLMs, shortcutting product feedback loops, the intersection of mindfulness and leadership, and finding design inspiration from fire hydrants.

The Steady Beat - Issue 24.07.2
Lines-of-code metrics don't matter, injecting AI into product ops, getting engineers on the product train, and accounting for UX bias.

The Steady Beat - Issue 24.07.1
Figma's AI wrench-in-the-works, scaling Halo, the modern Agile paradox, and leadership through radical candor.

The Steady Beat - Issue 24.06.4
Robotic painting, work conversation techniques, finding Agile mojo, and dispelling the product-manager-as-CEO myth.
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