As a product management leader, I have been mulling on how to help my team better understand and embrace the feedback loop. There is clearly a mentorship, engagement, and communication aspect to it: something that I genuinely enjoy.

Conversations with motivated people who are looking to improve their skills is such a joy. At the same time, there are other forms of feedback: especially written feedback for documents, sharing of ideas, and communication framing.

I always attempt to avoid sharing these kind of wording and framing suggestions in forums where higher order decisions need to be made. However, for an up and coming product manager, these sort of tips are super useful as they start to adopt them and start making them even better.

There is more. I always maintained a working-with-me style document that I shared with my partners and team.

In an age of LLMs, I was wondering what parts of this might I farm out to a pangu-feedback.md that could help my team and my partners better understand some of the ways I think: and hence anticipate what I might be on the look out for.

I tried this as an experiment with some folks and the thesis seems to work. It takes care of the base level feedback work that I no longer have to manage. It buys me leverage: I no longer spend cognitive cycles policing syntax when I need to be thinking about strategy.

The experiment turned up concrete results. In one case, a mentee was driving a discussion around feature prioritization, but the framing was muddy. The LLM provided the bridge, helping them restructure the argument to focus on the strategic importance rather than just the timeline. In another instance, a document intended to get a decision from stakeholders was written as if the decision was already made: it was jumping ahead. The feedback.md system guided the author to pivot, presenting it as a “what-if” scenario instead of the crux of the document.

This forces me to codify what I actually care about. It reinforces my own workflow while I feed it to the LLM.

While this is clearly a work-in-progress, I think these kind of life-hacks are always super useful.