Thinking out loud.

The PM who can prototype has a different career ceiling than the one who cannot

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The Mentorship Deficit: Who trains the next generation when entry level hiring has stopped?

The AI PM became the highest-paid and fastest growing product specialisation

Domain expertise outperforms credentials as the real career differentiator

The product leader's public voice became a hiring signal, not just personal branding

Building in public as a career infrastructure strategy, not just content marketing

The demand-supply gap for senior product leaders reached critical levels

Entry-level product positions collapsed, creating a broken leadership pipeline

The IC-to-leadership transition is the hardest career move in product, and most people fail it for the same reason

The PM role identity crisis: Senior leaders publicly questioning whether the job should exist