Via Peter Yang

“You lead Product, you run Product. We read a ton of documents. One of the things that I realized is that I give the same types of feedback over and over. ‘What’s the job to be done? What’s the customer evidence? What’s the supporting data? Does this have strong, logical rigor to it? Are there any assumptions or gaps? Second order effects that we’re not considering, risks, tradeoffs,’ so on and so forth. I started to codify that into a prompt to run my pre-read documents through. […]

And it gives me a really clear perspective on the types of questions that I would ask, the types of feedback that I would give, and really lets me hone in very quickly into the areas of concern or opportunity.”

— Best AI Workflows to Take Back Time at Work from Dropbox VP | Morgan Brown, at 2:05

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Morgan Brown (Dropbox VP) created a pre-read prompt template that captures the repetitive feedback he gives on documents: “What’s the job to be done? What’s the customer evidence? What’s the supporting data? Does this have strong logical rigor to it? Are there any assumptions or gaps? Second order effects that we’re not considering, risks, tradeoffs.”

By running every pre-read document through this standardized prompt, he can:

• Quickly identify areas of concern or opportunity
• Focus his limited time on the most critical issues
• Ensure consistent evaluation criteria across all documents
• Save hours of document review time weekly

This approach works because product leaders give the same types of feedback repeatedly. Rather than manually scanning each document for these patterns, the AI does the initial analysis so you can jump straight to the strategic questions.