Product managers are evolving from process coordinators to augmented architects: AI-powered builders who own strategy and commercial outcomes.
Your platform is either a tax or a multiplier
Internal platforms that slow teams down are taxes. Those that accelerate them are multipliers. The mandate trap hides which one you're building.
Gemini 3 Proves the NVIDIA Tax Is Optional
Google trained Gemini 3 entirely on TPUs, bypassing NVIDIA's tax. The margin war between vertical integration and the CUDA ecosystem begins.
Dead Time Is Story Time
Waiting isn't friction to eliminate. It's captive attention begging for engagement. The best products turn loading screens into learning moments.
The Feature Factory Problem AI Amplifies
AI accelerates shipping but not learning. Teams build faster without validating if they're solving the right customer problems.
AI Commoditizes Entry-Level Work While Amplifying Senior Value
AI isn't eliminating product roles wholesale. It's commoditizing entry-level work while amplifying senior value, hollowing out the career ladder.
Why AI Agents Fail Today Despite the Hype
AI agents excel at coding but fail at business tasks. The gap reveals what's missing: learning from experience and error recovery.
Infrastructure Redundancy Stops Before the CDN
Three major outages expose the gap between multi-cloud architecture and actual resilience when CDN infrastructure fails.
World Models Teach AI to See
LLMs excel at language. World models learn by watching: understanding space, time, and physics. I'm tracking why this matters for product builders.
AI Agents Multiply Work and Eliminate Jobs Simultaneously
AI agents boost output but multiply review work while threatening entry-level jobs. Two patterns reshaping knowledge work simultaneously.
Goal Clarity Without Strategy Clarity Is Just Noise
Enterprises repeat goals endlessly but skip strategy. In the AI era, that gap between knowing the destination and coordinating the route is existential.
Fast Teams Don't Ship More, They Learn Faster
Velocity isn't about shipping more features. It's about running faster learning loops that turn uncertainty into validated decisions.
Why Retention Starts at Onboarding, Not Growth
Retention problems are created in week one, not month six. Product decisions about time-to-value determine long-term stickiness.
The Tool Spectrum is Collapsing
Prototyping tools like Claude Code now serve both discovery and production, narrowing the gap between build-to-learn and build-to-earn.
Don't Contain Innovation—Spread It
Innovation labs fail when they isolate thinking. The companies winning are the ones where core business teams have built the innovation muscle.
The Gap Between AI Adoption and Enterprise Value
Two-thirds of organizations are stuck in AI pilot phase. The gap between adoption and enterprise value isn't technology—it's redesigning workflows.
Count Dependency, Not Customers
Your competitor added 10,000 customers. You added 200 developers. Who wins? Ecosystem dependency beats user acquisition every time.
Feature Factories Build AI Wrappers, Product Orgs Build Moats
Everyone's racing to add AI features. Few are building AI moats. The difference determines who's still competitive in 18 months.
How to Build Product Sense
Product sense isn't magic—it's systematic practice. Learn how to build intuition through decision-making, user empathy, and pattern recognition.
You're Not an AI User, You're an AI Manager
AI agents transform knowledge work from execution to management. ICs need allocation and judgment skills, not just execution speed.
Traffic Metrics Are Lying to You
Webflow's AI search data reveals why aggregate traffic is misleading and what product teams should measure instead.
45 Minutes with Claude Code: From Tag Chaos to Scalable Taxonomy
Daily publishing needs a scalable taxonomy. Claude Code built mine in 45 minutes: 63 tags → 40, three tiers, full automation.
When Your Reports Become Your Customers
Managers must add more value than they cost. Apply customer-thinking to direct reports: justify your existence through real services.
Two GTM Insights Product Managers Can Actually Use
Exploring a B2B GTM survey through a PM lens: two data points that might change how you think about pricing and AI features.
Early Experience: A Different Approach to Agent Training
Meta's Early Experience research explores agents learning from their own rollouts. Early results look promising—here's what changes if it scales.
Agentic AI: It's the Readiness and Access Story
The gap isn't whether AI agents work—it's who can deploy them. Infrastructure inequality is creating two types of organizations. Act now.
The Impact Scorecard
A simple framework to evaluate product impact: map your work by customer value and business value to focus on what matters most.
Anthropic’s Quiet Advantage in the AI Race
Anthropic’s enterprise and life sciences focus shows how AI companies are testing different business paths: one broad, one deep toward sustainable growth.
When the Cost of Delay Becomes Your Biggest Risk
How product teams can avoid paralysis in the AI era by acting before the window closes and minimizing the cost of delay.
AI Commoditization and Three Strategic Paths
AI is commoditizing your competitive advantage. Three strategic paths exist: race to the top, bottom, or adjacent. Choose deliberately or fail.
It's not a Search Problem, it's a Distribution Problem
AI search consolidates power across three layers: intent capture, routing, and monetization. The market structure implications are explained.
Claude Skills Might Be Anthropic’s Most Exciting Update Yet
Claude Skills let users package reusable workflows that make Claude adaptable and modular: a practical leap in how AI assistants work.
AI Isn’t Replacing Human Help, It’s Redefining It
AI isn’t replacing human help—it’s redefining it. History shows that every new technology first sparks fear, then expands what humans can do.
The New Rythm of Product, Design, and Engineering
AI-assisted prototyping is reshaping collaboration across product, design, and engineering—accelerating discovery and demanding the best from each discipline.
AI Agents Grow Work Instead of Replacing It
AI agents don’t replace jobs—they expand what teams can achieve. Learn how product leaders can turn automation gains into growth opportunities.
Rethinking Leadership Decisions through the Lens of Spotify’s Bets Board
Spotify’s “bets board” shows how leaders can treat decisions as experiments. Here’s how to explore that mindset without copying the model.
Evals in AI Product Development
Evals make AI products measurable. Traces, annotations, and layered tests turn evaluation into a practical loop for reliability.
Planning Better with Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 introduces usage tracking and thinking mode enhancements that streamline AI planning and session management.
The PM as Builder Era
AI makes building faster, but not smarter. The new PM advantage is clarity, knowing what to test, why it matters, and how to learn fast.
ChatGPT Is Becoming the Interface
Sam Altman outlines how OpenAI plans to turn ChatGPT into the internet’s next interface, powered by apps, commerce, and global infrastructure growth.
Notes on the Modern Product Leader’s Playbook
Notes on strategy, speed, and why modern product leadership is a leverage game.
OpenAI’s App Store Moment and the Future of Product Boundaries
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT app store redefines how users interact with products — shifting from interfaces to intent.
From Competitive Moats to Collaborative Bridges
In the AI era, the strongest products don’t build walls — they build bridges. Here’s why connectivity, not isolation, defines modern defensibility.
The Feedback Loop Fallacy in AI Products
AI feedback loops can lie. Learn why engagement metrics fail and how product managers can rebuild truth-centered measurement systems.
Thinking Through Agentic Loops
Exploring how agentic loops extend feedback loops by adding autonomy, iteration, and goal-directed action in systems and AI.
The Shift from SEO to AEO Is Redefining Visibility Online
The rise of answer engine optimization (AEO) marks a shift from SEO. Visibility in AI-driven answers is now the key to discovery.
Sora 2 Changes the Video Play
Sora 2 pushes AI video into mainstream use. Here’s what it enables now, who gets disrupted, and why B2B teams should pay attention.
Adaptability, Creativity, Tech Fluency: The Skills Defining Work Now
The core skills once seen as future-ready—adaptability, creativity, and tech fluency—are already defining how work gets done today.
AI Platforms as the New Distribution Layer
OpenAI’s Instant Checkout turns ChatGPT into a commerce channel. Here’s what product managers need to know about AI-native distribution.
Level Up or Get Left Behind by AI
Walmart and Accenture show why AI is an existential risk for workers who don’t adapt, but also a chance to reinvent work for the better.
From Architect to Gardener to Orchestrator in the AI Era
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
What a gigawatt of AI really means, and how abundant intelligence could reshape technology, healthcare, and society.
When Work Becomes the Practice
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.
Platform vs Product: The AI Era Convergence
AI is collapsing the line between platforms and products. The winners will master both, balancing ecosystems and user experiences.
Atlassian's Browser Move
Atlassian’s $610M bet on The Browser Company is bold. Here’s why it makes sense, and the big risks that could derail it.
When to Trust Intuition vs. Metrics
Intuition is a compass, metrics are a map. Here’s how product managers can decide which to trust, depending on the product stage.
AEO is the New SEO?
A quick look at Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), why it matters for both consumers and businesses, and how it differs from SEO.
The Limit of Metrics
Metrics measure the present, but intuition imagines the future. Here’s why great product managers need both — and how to define intuition.
Apple’s Sugar Water Trap
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.
Treat Your Job Like a Product and Protect Maker Time
Product leaders must treat their job like a product and protect maker time, or risk getting stuck in execution and missing leadership growth.
The Hidden Cost of UX Friction in Enterprise Systems
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 Builds Spreadsheets and Documents
Claude now generates real files—Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDFs—from prompts.
One Question Every Product Manager Should Ask in Roadmap Reviews
A simple question can sharpen roadmap reviews: what will this feature replace in the user’s life? Here’s why the replacement lens matters.
What Leadership Really Looks Like
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 Brings a Step Forward in Voice AI
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.
The Token Squeeze is Real
AI isn’t getting cheaper. Token demand is exploding, and flat-rate subscriptions are doomed. What pricing models can survive the squeeze?
When AI Bots Rule the Web
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.
Nano Banana and the Future of AI Image Editing
Google’s Nano Banana is redefining AI image editing. Here’s what it means for creativity, platforms, and trust in the digital age.
AI in Product Management
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 Meet Their Hardest Test: Security
Agentic browsers face significant security risks, such as prompt injection, but early defenses demonstrate why security will be the true differentiator.
Product Culture Is Your Real Operating System
Strong product culture drives better decisions, innovation, and outcomes. Leaders shape it daily through hiring, rituals, and behaviors.
Curiosity Beats Tenure in the Age of AI
Junior developers’ curiosity and adaptability make them the most AI-native talent. Cutting them now risks weakening future innovation.
Agentic AI Needs APIs to Act
Agentic AI can reason, but it needs APIs to act. APIs are the execution layer that makes AI autonomy real.
No New Ideas in AI? The Power and Limits of Data
A critique of the idea that AI progress is only about data, exploring the role of algorithms and human creativity alongside new datasets.
Observability Now Includes Watching AI
AI observability means monitoring accuracy, drift, and hallucinations, not just uptime. PMs must treat it as a core product feature.
Fixing Google SEO Indexing Issues with ClaudeCode
Fixed Google SEO indexing issues using ClaudeCode by adding canonicals, updating the sitemap, and cleaning redirects—no SEO expertise required.
Why Empathy, Not IQ, Defines Success in the AI Age
Empathy and critical thinking—not IQ—are the keys to thriving as a product leader in the AI era.
Build, Buy, or AI-Build
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 Early But Already Changing SaaS
Vibe-coding is still early, but already empowers non-technical builders while pressuring SaaS vendors to deliver leverage beyond features.
The Informal Committees Behind B2B Buying
B2B buying isn’t decided by end users alone. Informal committees shape decisions, and product managers must map their jobs-to-be-done.
Making Product Decisions with a Bets Mindset
How leading product teams use betting principles to make smarter decisions, test ideas fast, and adapt quickly to real-world results.
Start with Product and Target for Effective Distribution, Not Channel
Learn why smart product managers match channels to product and target, not trends, with a simple hospital software example.
AI Risks to SaaS Companies
Generative + Agentic AI is accelerating feature commoditization; read the room and adapt.
The Power of an Anchor - Warby Parker's Pricing Strategy
Warby Parker's playbook for product managers. Learn how the company uses pricing strategy, vertical integration, and innovation to grow.
From Promise to Practice - AI's Real Impact on Medicine
Real-world data on AI in medicine. Where it works (imaging, drug discovery), why it fails (data, integration), and what actually drives adoption.
The Winner's Curse: Rhyming History in the AI Era
Why AI disruption differs from past paradigm shifts: faster cycles, probabilistic computing, and why today's tech winners face an accelerating curse.
Vibe Coding and Test-driven Development
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How to Make OKRs Work
Practical tips to make OKRs work: writing strong objectives, measurable key results, and avoiding common pitfalls in execution.
Why OKRs Matter
Learn why OKRs matter, how they align teams, and the four superpowers that make them a proven framework for execution.
Making Better Product Decisions
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.
The Questions Great Product Leaders Ask
Great product leaders don’t rely on perfect foresight. They ask sharper questions that cut through ambiguity and lead to better decisions.