PMs waste absurd amounts of time writing specs nobody actually reads

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Look, a lot of PM work turns into document theater. You spend hours cleaning up specs, polishing wording, adding edge cases, formatting everything nicely, and half the team still just asks for the 3 actual decisions in Slack. Real talk, I think a lot of PMs are overproducing artifacts because it feels safer than forcing clarity. Not saying docs do not matter. They do. But there is a difference between a doc that aligns people and a doc that

Published 14 Apr 2026
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