🎾 4 Spy Tools for Any Market, 10 PRD Must-Haves, IBM Explains Monte Carlo Simulation, No Prototyping for 13 Games in 1 Year

+ How to Create Your PowerPoint Slides in 3 Steps Using ChatGPT & more

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This is Sunday 1-1-2-3 with George.

Welcome to the 94th edition.

Today we have:

• The Most Misunderstood Research Method In All The Land

• IBM Technology Explainers: Monte Carlo Simulations & Others

• 4 Tools for Analyzing Any Market, Company, or Opportunity Like a Spy

• You Don’t Need More Speculative Design (Overengineering), You Need Faster Feedback Loops

• No Prototyping: How John Carmack’s Team Produced 13 Games In 1 Year

• 10 Sections to Make You PRD / Product Document Complete

+ How to Create Your PowerPoint Slides in 3 Steps Using ChatGPT & more

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💾 The Most Misunderstood Research Method In All The Land

Another niche banger from

Daniel Kyne

, this time about Conjoint Analysis.

Most PMs I talk to blink twice when I say those two words: “conjoint analysis”.

I’ve actually never done it myself, but learned more about it when I implemented a MaxDiff survey recently.

A few quotes:

Quotes from the article on Conjoint Analysis

Q: Have you ever ran a conjoint analysis survey? Was it successful? I’d love to hear more.

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☕️ IBM Technology Explainers

I’m starting a new role working on a Search team. I’m really excited.

But I realised I needed to get up to speed with all the tech that’s out there; I haven’t looked into search for a while.

To my surprise, I found a ton of great videos on the IBM Technology channel, of all things.

Here are a few I’d recommend.

I guarantee if you learn about Monte Carlo Simulation and even try to prototype it in Python with numpy, your understanding of estimation techniques for product will go up by 10x:

Here’s another good one if you are product managing an API product:

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🍪 Quick Bites

• 4 Tools for Analyzing Any Market, Company, or Opportunity Like a Spy

• You Don’t Need More Speculative Design (Overengineering), You Need Faster Feedback Loops

  • (Related) No Prototyping: How John Carmack’s Team Produced 13 Games In 1 Year

• 10 Sections to Make You PRD / Product Document Complete

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🤖 AI Corner

• How to Create Your PowerPoint Slides in 3 Steps Using ChatGPT

• 25 In-Depth ChatGPT Prompts to Help You Scale Your Internet Business With Golden Frameworks

• Midjourney Released a Long-Awaited AI Feature: Inpainting

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That's a wrap for today. Stay focused and see you next week! If you want more, be sure to follow me on Twitter (@nurijanian)

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