How Do I Treat You, AI?
Everyone's been asking AI to visualize them lately. I tried it with four models — and got a chef, a firefighter, and a bug fixer in return. Only one actually asked what I do first. Here's what the trend got right, what it got wrong, and why that crying robot is a big no from me.
When Requirements Are Unclear Should You Work On A Product?
When is there enough detail to start building? I explore the fine line between productive preparation and endless over-analysis — and how to move forward with confidence when requirements are unclear.
We Moved 10x Faster With AI. We Also Ran Out of Places to Hide the Waterfall.
We doubled our velocity with AI tools. Then someone asked why we still had sprints. The answer exposed everything wrong with how we were working.
Everyone Said We Were Agile. Nobody Could Name the Last Thing We Changed Our Minds About.
I remember the exact meeting where it clicked for me. We had the sprints, the standups, the sticky notes — the whole liturgy. And yet, something felt deeply wrong. Every story in our backlog had been written four months ago, by people who hadn't spoken to a single user. We weren't doing Agile. We were doing waterfall in a costume.
When is the day that AI starts renting humans?
What happens when AI agents begin hiring humans instead of the other way around? This thought experiment explores a future where people become the low-energy, high-flexibility “hardware layer” for artificial intelligence — rented for physical edge cases machines cannot efficiently perform.
Can We Switch the Whole World Economy to Freemium Mode?
What if everything in life worked like Spotify or Dropbox? Exploring how freemium pricing psychology, UBI experiments, and gaming economies reveal what a tiered real-world economy might actually look like—and whether we'd want to live in it.
OKRs, KPIs, and Metrics: Why We Keep Mixing Them Up (And My January Reality Check)
After one month of treating my life like a startup with KPIs, here's the honest reality check: I got sick twice, missed most targets, and learned why companies keep mixing up OKRs, KPIs, and metrics
From Clay Tablets to Jira: How Communication Technology Shapes Product Management
The evolution from clay tablets to Jira reveals how communication technology went from enforcing discipline to enabling chaos. As PMs drowning in noise, how do we rediscover signal in the age of frictionless communication and AI?
When AI Fails You: What to Do When Your Perfect Prompts Become Your Biggest Problem
I caught myself staring blankly at a simple email, reaching for ChatGPT. This is AI brain rot—and the better you get at prompting, the worse it gets. Here's the paradox nobody talks about and what to do when AI fails you.
What is a product manager? A search for a definition.
Ever struggled to explain what a product manager actually does? You're not alone. Dive into why this role defies simple definition and what that means for PMs everywhere.