stakeholders—especially executive stakeholders—are very busy people, and that quick nod in a meeting or “Got it, thanks,” email doesn’t necessarily mean they were paying attention to your point of view, let alone meaningfully engaging with it. In the world of product management, anything short of affirmative and specific buy-in is incredibly dangerous. And no two words better embody disengaged, ambiguous, and vague non-buy-in buy-in than “Looks fine.”
