Product strategy under constraints. What it takes to build digital products for media, AI, and audiences you can’t fully reach, track, or control. Lessons from censorship, distribution limits, and real-world trade-offs.
The Purpose of Metrics Is to Make Themselves Less Important
We have spent years trying to become more data-driven. We built dashboards, defined KPIs, and measured almost everything. But what if the best organizations eventually need to rely on those metrics less, not more?
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/purpose-metrics-make-themselves-less-important-arkady-pildes-7iq3f
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
6 Oct 2026
Progress Always Sends Someone the Bill
Every major technology shift produces winners, increases output, and quietly leaves someone more tired. The first two are easy to track, so they dominate the story. The third is slower to surface, usually after the excitement fades. As AI prepares for its turn as the next revolution, it is worth asking whether we have even finished tallying the costs of the last one.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/progress-always-sends-someone-bill-arkady-pildes-2fkdf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
29 Sept 2026
If Money Motivated People, Management Would Be Easy
Imagine a world where every salary increase immediately produced better decisions, stronger collaboration, and happier customers. Managers would stop worrying about culture, leadership, feedback, and strategy. HR could replace leadership development with payroll software. The fact that nobody believes this tells us something important.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/money-motivated-people-management-would-easy-arkady-pildes-e2lvf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
22 Sept 2026
Burnout Is Not a Training Problem
One of the strangest things in corporate life happens when a manager burns out. They have no energy left, struggle to concentrate, and dread opening their calendar. So naturally… We send them to a training course.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/burnout-training-problem-arkady-pildes-k73rf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
15 Sept 2026
Would you fly on a Minimum Viable Product?
Product managers love MVPs. Engineers love shipping. Executives love hearing the words “quick win.” Until the product happens to be an aircraft navigation system, a payment platform, or your company’s authentication service. Suddenly, nobody wants to iterate quite so publicly.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/would-you-fly-minimum-viable-product-arkady-pildes-vkcnf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
8 Sept 2026
The Most Expensive Myth in Business Is That Strong Leaders Exist
Every organization eventually reaches the same conclusion: we need a stronger leader. A stronger Head of Product. A stronger Operations Director. A stronger Engineering Manager. It sounds perfectly reasonable. It is also one of the most expensive assumptions companies make. Leadership is rarely a property of a person. More often, it is a property of the match between a person and the situation they are placed in.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-expensive-myth-business-strong-leaders-exist-arkady-pildes-c1d7f
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
1 Sept 2026
You Cannot Build Mature Leaders with Immature Metrics
There is something almost poetic about asking leadership development to prove its value by short-term business impact. We want mature leaders, yet we evaluate the development process with immature metrics.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-cannot-build-mature-leaders-immature-metrics-arkady-pildes-caksf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
25 Aug 2026
Your Roadmap Is a Hypothesis, Not a Prophecy
Product teams often build roadmaps as if they are describing the future. In reality, they are describing current assumptions about the future. That difference sounds small, but it changes everything.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-roadmap-hypothesis-prophecy-arkady-pildes-vxkbf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
18 Aug 2026
Leadership Is Infrastructure. You Notice It Only When It Fails
Good leadership often seems almost invisible. The team works, people know what to do, conflicts do not escalate into wars, and external chaos somehow does not enter the room every morning carrying a new “urgent priority.” Like most infrastructure, leadership is rarely appreciated when it works. It becomes very visible when it is missing.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-infrastructure-you-notice-only-when-fails-arkady-pildes-owrkf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
11 Aug 2026
Research Has Never Been Cheaper. Insight Has Never Been More Valuable
We live in an age when a market analysis, competitive review, customer segmentation, and strategic recommendation are just a few prompts away. Information is abundant. Insight isn’t. And that’s changing what separates great professionals from everyone else.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/research-has-never-been-cheaper-insight-more-valuable-arkady-pildes-tjfqf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
Many organizations still operate as if employees naturally adopt the company's objectives as their own. In reality, every corporate goal passes through a much tougher filter of personal ambition, curiosity, recognition, autonomy, security, and meaning. That filter determines where effort is actually directed.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-performance-management-feels-increasingly-broken-arkady-pildes-xqmpf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
28 Jul 2026
The Most Dangerous Thing on LinkedIn Is Not What You Think
We worry about recruiters, AI, networking, and personal branding. Meanwhile, a much older force quietly shapes how we see our careers: comparison. The problem is that our brains were built for a village yet somehow end up benchmarking themselves against the entire planet.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-dangerous-thing-linkedin-what-you-think-arkady-pildes-xzwtf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
21 Jul 2026
The Best Managers Often Look Useless
When management works perfectly, people start believing it is unnecessary. After all, nobody is panicking, priorities seem obvious, teams move independently, and major conflicts somehow never fully explode. Which is slightly ironic, because preventing the explosion was probably the manager’s actual job all along.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-managers-often-look-useless-arkady-pildes-l7lgf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
14 Jul 2026
Quality Is Free. Chaos Is Extremely Expensive
Philip Crosby wrote Quality Is Free in the late 1970s, when management books still smelled faintly of factories and cigarette smoke. Half a century later, companies have replaced assembly lines with AI, cloud infrastructure, and agile rituals. Yet many still spend enormous amounts of money fixing problems they created by trying to move faster.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quality-free-chaos-extremely-expensive-arkady-pildes-shfsf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
7 Jul 2026
Esprit de l’Escalier: Why Organizations Reward Fast Thinking and Regret It Later
Corporate life rewards speed of response, while the most valuable thought often arrives only after everyone has already agreed to the wrong thing.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/esprit-de-lescalier-why-organizations-reward-fast-thinking-pildes-1rldf
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
30 Jun 2026
King Solomon’s Paradox: Why Strategy Always Looks Easier from Outside the Building
Organizations love rational thinking right until rational thinking threatens internal equilibrium.
This episode is a companion to my LinkedIn article (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/king-solomons-paradox-why-strategy-always-looks-easier-arkady-pildes-xwuvf/).
This podcast is generated using an AI version of my voice from a script written and edited by me.
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