From Architect to Gardener to Orchestrator in the AI Era
Quick ThoughtHow AI transforms product leadership from building to conducting. The rise of the Orchestrator mindset in product management.
91 quick insights and observations on product thinking, technology, and strategy.
How AI transforms product leadership from building to conducting. The rise of the Orchestrator mindset in product management.
What a gigawatt of AI really means, and how abundant intelligence could reshape technology, healthcare, and society.
Moving beyond the search for meaning to the practice of creating it. A product manager's reflection on making work matter, one sprint at a time.
AI is collapsing the line between platforms and products. The winners will master both, balancing ecosystems and user experiences.
Atlassian’s $610M bet on The Browser Company is bold. Here’s why it makes sense, and the big risks that could derail it.
Intuition is a compass, metrics are a map. Here’s how product managers can decide which to trust, depending on the product stage.
A quick look at Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), why it matters for both consumers and businesses, and how it differs from SEO.
Metrics measure the present, but intuition imagines the future. Here’s why great product managers need both — and how to define intuition.
Apple’s iPhone 17 shows the sugar water trap risk as AI reshapes tech. A lesson for product managers on balancing incremental progress with bold bets.
Product leaders must treat their job like a product and protect maker time, or risk getting stuck in execution and missing leadership growth.
Enterprise systems often rely on mandates, not UX. But small friction compounds into real business risk. Here’s why PMs can’t ignore it.
Claude now generates real files—Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDFs—from prompts.
A simple question can sharpen roadmap reviews: what will this feature replace in the user’s life? Here’s why the replacement lens matters.
Leadership for product managers isn’t about titles. It’s about daily choices—small acts of influence, initiative, empowerment, and courage.
OpenAI’s GPT-realtime unifies voice AI into a single model. See why its technical leap and early adopters make this the moment voice AI goes mainstream.
AI isn’t getting cheaper. Token demand is exploding, and flat-rate subscriptions are doomed. What pricing models can survive the squeeze?
AI crawlers dominate web traffic, but most don’t send users back. Here’s what product managers need to know about training bots, referrals, and strategy.
Google’s Nano Banana is redefining AI image editing. Here’s what it means for creativity, platforms, and trust in the digital age.
AI is moving fast in product management, from PRDs to prototypes. Here’s what research shows, what’s missing, and how PMs can lead.
Agentic browsers face significant security risks, such as prompt injection, but early defenses demonstrate why security will be the true differentiator.
Strong product culture drives better decisions, innovation, and outcomes. Leaders shape it daily through hiring, rituals, and behaviors.
Junior developers’ curiosity and adaptability make them the most AI-native talent. Cutting them now risks weakening future innovation.
Agentic AI can reason, but it needs APIs to act. APIs are the execution layer that makes AI autonomy real.
A critique of the idea that AI progress is only about data, exploring the role of algorithms and human creativity alongside new datasets.
AI observability means monitoring accuracy, drift, and hallucinations, not just uptime. PMs must treat it as a core product feature.
Fixed Google SEO indexing issues using ClaudeCode by adding canonicals, updating the sitemap, and cleaning redirects—no SEO expertise required.
Empathy and critical thinking—not IQ—are the keys to thriving as a product leader in the AI era.
Vibe-coding opens a new AI-build path, but Marty Cagan’s point on business rules shows its limits. Can AI ever capture this hidden and complex logic?
Vibe-coding is still early, but already empowers non-technical builders while pressuring SaaS vendors to deliver leverage beyond features.
B2B buying isn’t decided by end users alone. Informal committees shape decisions, and product managers must map their jobs-to-be-done.
How leading product teams use betting principles to make smarter decisions, test ideas fast, and adapt quickly to real-world results.
Learn why smart product managers match channels to product and target, not trends, with a simple hospital software example.
Generative + Agentic AI is accelerating feature commoditization; read the room and adapt.
Warby Parker's playbook for product managers. Learn how the company uses pricing strategy, vertical integration, and innovation to grow.
Real-world data on AI in medicine. Where it works (imaging, drug discovery), why it fails (data, integration), and what actually drives adoption.
Why AI disruption differs from past paradigm shifts: faster cycles, probabilistic computing, and why today's tech winners face an accelerating curse.
Vibe-coding coolness
Practical tips to make OKRs work: writing strong objectives, measurable key results, and avoiding common pitfalls in execution.
Learn why OKRs matter, how they align teams, and the four superpowers that make them a proven framework for execution.
Great product leaders know not all decisions are equal. Learn how to apply the one-way vs. two-way door lens to improve decision speed and quality.
Great product leaders don’t rely on perfect foresight. They ask sharper questions that cut through ambiguity and lead to better decisions.