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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #16
July 17, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take Everyone in my industry can see the same wave coming. Almost none of us have done the boring work to stand where we are. I read a survey this week that named a gap I’ve been feeling for months. SPINS asked senior CPG leaders about…
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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #15
July 10, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take I’ve published every week for three months. This week, I learned that almost none of it converted because the signup form has been broken the entire time. Here’s the sequence. The blog went out on schedule. The newsletter went out on schedule. Every week, I…
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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #14
July 3, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal I am posting this a day early. Happy 250th anniversary, America. The Take We don’t stop the business this week. We stop adding to it, and make reflection and planning the whole company’s priority. It’s the last week of my quarter, and the one week when new…
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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #13
June 26, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take I spent days looking busy so I wouldn’t have to make a call I’d already made on day one. This week, I closed four loops I’d been carrying for too long. A web partnership I kept “evaluating.” A sourcing problem I kept “researching.” A blend…
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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #12
June 19, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take The key takeaway: the feature I start every demo with is something a competitor could release by next quarter. That’s not my advantage. I had it reversed. A market brief caught my attention this week. Nearly half of consumer brands now include both a QR…
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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #11
June 12, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take I spent two weeks convinced a cork liner was killing my product. The real suspect was the old spare phone in my hand. Here is the setup. Every jar we are building has a small tag under the lid that you tap with your phone…
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THE PM’s SPICE RACK – ISSUE #10
June 5, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take One decision sat open on my board for six weeks while everything around it moved. I kept calling it research. It was avoidance. I fell straight into a trap. The critical decision for our entire launch was choosing the right hardware partner to build our…
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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #9
May 29, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take We’re making the final changes to the labels this week. After two years, this is the moment the whole thing stops being a deck and starts being a jar. That sentence should feel triumphant. Mostly, it makes me want to slow everything down. Here’s the…
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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #8
May 23, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take The trademark came through this week, and the labels showed up the same week. After three years, Trevean Spice is a thing the law recognizes and can be held. I want to be careful about how I describe the feeling because it’s easy to oversell…
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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #7
May 15, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take Trevean got named in the industry literature this week. I’m still figuring out how to feel about it. A trade write-up on Smart Packaging 4.0 cited Trevean by name as the real-world example of NFC-enabled spice traceability. Not as a footnote. As an example. The…
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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #6
May 1, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take I built a persona tester this week. It changed how I think about feature decisions. Here’s the setup. I’ve been wrestling with a packaging copy decision for Trevean for two weeks. The kind of small choice that should take an hour, but somehow eats six.…
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THE PM’s SPICE RACK – ISSUE #5
April 24, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take Today, April 24, GitHub flips a switch. Starting this morning, if you use Copilot Free, Pro, or Pro+, your code, your file names, your cursor patterns, your comments, all of it defaults into training data for Microsoft’s AI models. Unless you went hunting for the…