Outstanding Community Writing from September
September brought us three articles on AI's impact on product work. Noa Ganot wrote two pieces on AI strategy. Ivan Monteiro delivered a deep dive on human capability in the AI era.
Noa Ganot - Two Takes on AI Strategy
Noa Ganot published Product Strategy in the AI Era on Sep 4. The piece hit 2,500 views with a 4-minute read time. Main point: everyone wants to move fast, but moving in the right direction matters more than ever when AI is changing everything.
A week later Noa followed up with How AI Changes Your Problem Space (580 views, 4 minutes). This one explored how AI reshapes the actual problems your customers are dealing with. Not just adding AI features but understanding how AI transforms your users’ entire world.
Noa brings real experience here. Former VP Product at Twiggle and Head of Product at eBay Israel. Now running infinify.com helping product executives navigate AI transformation. These September contributions give product leaders frameworks for keeping strategic clarity when everything’s moving fast.
Ivan Monteiro - The Month’s Deep Dive
Ivan Monteiro published The Workforce That Forgot How on Sep 14 (1,300 views, 15-minute read). This ain’t another take on AI productivity. It’s a researched look at what we’re losing as we automate human capability.
Core argument: AI’s real danger isn’t job replacement, it’s agency replacement. With our permission. Ivan traces how convenience tech from GPS to AI assistants doesn’t just automate tasks but weakens the underlying human skills. We end up unable to do the work that’s supposed to be our refuge from automation.
The piece pulls together research across neuroscience, labor economics, and tech ethics. Shows how AI tools are mostly used by students and inexperienced workers. The people least equipped to evaluate the outputs critically. Ivan documents psychological harms and cases of AI-induced problems even among industry insiders.
Ivan gives product managers a roadmap: conduct impact audits, design features that keep cognitive strength intact, implement cross-functional ethical review, advocate for governance standards. Key point: every AI feature answers an implicit question about what human capabilities we preserve or replace.
Ivan writes as a B2B product manager building these systems and dealing with their implications. Makes the piece more grounded.
September’s Impact
Three articles. Conversations about strategy, capability, and responsibility in the AI era.
These gave our community frameworks and warnings for navigating product management’s biggest shift. The best stories on Product Coalition are the ones that share direct experience. Tell us where you were when you learned something. What company or team you were working with. What mistakes you made. What surprised you. The context of how you achieved your learnings makes the insights stick. That’s what readers come back for.
Thanks to Tremis Skeete for providing the editorial oversight needed to ensure Product Coalition remains relevant and focused for the product management community globally.
Thanks to Noa and Ivan for bringing depth and clarity to the most important conversations happening right now.