What Is Product Manager Brain?

Marc Andreessen calls the pattern product manager brain: product managers design products for product managers. People build products for themselves, and product managers still tell a story about building for other people. The use cases stay in the same circle, such as booking a restaurant in San Francisco for dinner with friends who are also product managers, or booking a flight to a product management conference to spend time with more product manager friends.

The same narrowness shows up in an assistant pitched as happy, harmless, and honest, which becomes the most boring possible product and refuses a question it is not allowed to answer. Early companies held a blinkered view of human activity and of what people want to do. Muse and Instinct are where the range starts to open. What follows is more entertaining, fun, enjoyable, exciting, and lucrative. People will make money, save money, take part in the economy, and create new kinds of art. In the last three weeks there has been an explosion of people making music videos de novo across a wide set of creative ideas, and video games have blown up in the last three weeks.