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AI Product Building
Your AI Strategy Needs Jobs To Be Done, Not a Thousand Agents
Agent strategy starts with the work customers need done. Without that map, you are just automating organisational noise.
25 May9 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
ClickUp's 100x Organisation Is a Review Problem
ClickUp's 100x organisation memo gets the bottleneck right but the strategy wrong: AI-native teams are built around review, not cuts.
22 May13 min read
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AI Product Building
AI Software Quality Needs a Factory Again
AI software quality is a production discipline. Code got cheap, but review, evals, rollback, and observability did not.
22 May8 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
The Three Amigos Aren't One Person. They're a Protocol.
Solo polymath or multiplayer trio? Wrong frame. In the agentic coding era, the Three Amigos became a coordination protocol, and the strong ones win.
18 May11 min read
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Industry & MarketsDeep dive
The Next Industry to Get Product Management Is Yours
Product management is escaping tech. HVAC companies, PE portfolios, regional banks, and schools are about to hire their first PM. The discipline is leaving.
15 May15 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
Alignment Is Eating Itself. What Comes After the Deck.
Alignment mechanics were scaffolding for moving information through slow orgs. Agents move it instantly. What's left is the conviction the scaffolding hid.
13 May13 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
Plan Your Skip Move, Not Your Next Move
In stable markets, plan your next job. In exponential markets, plan the one after. Why title cuts today are the highest-return career move of the decade.
11 May14 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
Product Shipping Is Up 10x. Design Hiring Hasn't Moved.
Teams shipping 10x more product aren't hiring more designers. Design still matters; most orgs just hire for the wrong part of it.
8 May12 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
A 2018 Google PM Is Worth Less Than a Two-Year AI-Native Builder
The hiring signal has inverted. Prestige credentials from the big-tech era correlate weakly with AI fluency. Screen for recency, not brand.
6 May13 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
The Skills That Got You Promoted Are the Ones Making You Obsolete
Success in the old operating model is a reinvention tax. The senior leaders who mastered roadmap theatre and stakeholder alignment struggle most to adapt.
4 May13 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
30,000 Out. 8,000 In. The Great PM Cull Is Underway.
The 2024–2026 layoff cycle isn't a ZERP correction. It's a talent swap at a 3.75:1 ratio, with an entirely different skill filter. Most discourse misses it.
1 May10 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
AI Is a Five-Layer Cake. Pick the Slice That Keeps Paying.
Energy, chips, systems, models, applications. Every layer matters. Only one pays compounding returns. A framework for picking yours.
29 Apr11 min read
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