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Long-form thinking on AI, product, and how to ship.

Case studies from real work. Insights on ideas worth working through.

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How to Use AI Without Learning AI

A practical guide for product leaders who want real AI workflows now, without becoming an AI expert first.

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Email Is Not an Identity

Why a student who changes schools can become a stranger to your data, and how the same fix made a first AI feature possible without exposing any PII.

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DomainData architecture
ToolsExternal IDs · Session IDs · LLM session summaries
ImpactNew integrations built on stable IDs · AI summaries mapped to students with no PII sent to the model
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The New Whiteboarding

How an AI-built clickable prototype took a homepage from a three-day design estimate to two hours, surfaced a layout problem no spec would have caught, and cut a month of design and feedback down to a week on a dashboard.

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DomainRapid prototyping
ToolsClaude · Figma Make · Lovable
ImpactAbout 3 design days down to 2 hours on a homepage prototype. About a month down to a week to get design and feedback on an analytics dashboard. Design started from a working file.
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The Reports That Disagreed With Each Other

Becoming the source of truth when the platform couldn't be.

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DomainData architecture
ToolsSnowflake · SQL · OpenSearch
ImpactReporting discrepancy resolved · single source of truth
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The roadmap space nobody asks for: a platform stability case study

How I defended roadmap capacity for stability and scale work while the business grew 7x, and why the unglamorous epics are the ones the growth stood on.

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DomainPlatform strategy
ToolsJira · OKRs · Quarterly planning
ImpactBooking capacity 3x · 95%+ retention · 7x B2B growth
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Retiring the custom AI tool I built: release notes case study

How I built a custom GPT to automate release notes, trained it on ten golden examples, then retired it for a native Rovo workflow inside Jira.

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DomainRelease management
ToolsChatGPT · Rovo · Jira
ImpactDrafting time: 3 hrs → 15 min per cycle

Ideas, lessons, and perspectives on AI and product leadership.

Insight

Having Data Is Not the Same as Having Evidence

Before promising an AI outcome, validate that the data can support it. What querying a platform I couldn't trust taught me about data readiness.

Oct 2026
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Supporting an Objective Doesn't Mean Copying Its Metric

A PRD success metric can support an OKR without copying it. Line of sight is the hypothesis connecting the two, and most PRDs never write it down.

Sep 2026
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The Quarter We Spent on a Maybe

An unvalidated bet is not automatically a bad bet. It is a bet with a wide range of outcomes, and it should be sized like one.

Sep 2026
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From Ninety Years to Monday Morning

A long-range plan is not a prediction. It is a decision about which future gets your attention today.

Aug 2026
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Proximity to Ground Truth

AI output is only as good as the input it works from. The PM is usually the closest available source of ground truth in the room, and that turns out to matter more than being a reviewer.

Aug 2026
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Talking Specs Into Existence

How a spoken bug report becomes a paste-ready defect ticket, using the same AI-interrogates-you method behind the Prompt Blueprint, applied to specs instead of mocks.

Aug 2026
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The walk before the draft

Why talking through a spec out loud, before typing a word, produces better product thinking.

Jul 2026
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The prompt blueprint: getting AI to ask the right questions first

Context, Role, Discovery, Execution: the four-part framework I use on every AI task, illustrated with the real questions I run before building a single product mock.

Jul 2026
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