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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
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The PM’s SPICE RACK – ISSUE #4
April 16, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take I pulled a dusty book off my shelf this week, and it told me exactly where product management is going. The book is User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton. My copy has a coffee stain, a gnawed pen marking my place in chapter five, and
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THE PM’s SPICE RACK – ISSUE #3
April 9, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take I was editing a sent email at 11:30 PM. That’s when I knew I had a problem. Rushi had already sent a sourcing follow-up to a producer in Barmer. Someone we’d met in person, built rapport with, and already decided to work with. She wrote
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THE PM’S SPICE RACK – ISSUE #2
April 2, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal THE TAKE A $65 billion flavor company was born this week, and nobody in our industry should be sleeping on it. McCormick just announced it’s combining with Unilever’s entire food business in a $44.8 billion deal. When it closes (expected mid-2027), the combined entity will own McCormick,
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THE PM’s SPICE RACK – ISSUE #1
March 19, 2026 | The Product Manager’s Journal The Take Your product is lying to you if you’ve never visited the source. As a product manager, understanding the product manager supply chain transparency is crucial for building trust with consumers. Next week I’m flying to Tuscany to meet the farmers who grow our spices. This