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The Rise and Fall of the Product Dictator

Why product dictators are having their day, why it’s a terrible thing, and what to do instead.

8 min readApr 4, 2024

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You’re Not Managing Enough

Management is an active sport. Hands off is bad, micro-management is worse. Here’s how to manage without over-managing.

6 min readMar 7, 2024

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User-Centered Performance (and How to Stop It)

How to identify and crush user-centered performance, and do work that really matters.

7 min readJan 25, 2024

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A Bright Future for UX Research

2024 and beyond looks bright for UX Research, but to get there we’ll need to fix the broken system we’ve been in.

6 min readJan 8, 2024

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How to Be a Leader-Researcher in 2024

Find your researcher mindset and the humble learner vibe to be a better leader in 2024.

5 min readDec 30, 2023

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Leaders Need Less Vision, Not More

The focus on vision is misguided. It’s not what makes leaders great or companies successful.

6 min readNov 1, 2023

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Leadership is a Research Project

The best leaders are tireless investigators of the humans around them. More important than vision and intuition is curiosity and humility.

8 min readAug 28, 2023

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Decoding the Latest Facebook Studies

Last week a new batch of large-scale Facebook experiments was published in top academic journals.

4 min readJul 31, 2023

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Stay Out of the Uncanny Valley

Avoiding things that are almost but not quite the same will guide you well in design, decision-making, and communication.

6 min readJul 26, 2023

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How to Say No

Saying no is scary, but if you do it well a no can feel like a yes. Here’s three simple techniques for saying no.

7 min readJun 27, 2023

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Judd Antin

Judd Antin

Executive coach, consultant, writer, teacher on leadership, management, social psychology, product design — Ex-Airbnb, Ex-Meta, Ex-Yahoo — https://juddantin.com

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