AI decoupled doing from learning. Every knowledge worker now faces a constant trade-off between the two. The ones who choose learning look slower today and become irreplaceable tomorrow.
When Doing Stopped Being Learning
The Fast Track to Incompetence
AI accelerates the Peter’s Principle by letting people produce senior-level output without building senior-level understanding — creating a new class of ‘Senior Operators’ who have mastered the interface, not the craft.
Your Pipeline IS Your Culture
Your p50 time-to-production is the single most predictive metric of developer happiness, value delivery, and organizational health.
How to Escape the Brown Compromise Trap
The brown compromise happens when blending everyone’s preferences leads to a result nobody wants. Learn how to escape this trap in product decisions.
Happiness: a Dance of Openness and Closure
Our minds oscillate between openness and closure. Understanding these rhythms is key to cultivating happiness, flow states, and personal growth.
Yesterday I was fired 🔥
Reflections on being laid off and the 1-to-0 transition. What losing your job teaches about addiction to work, identity, and finding happiness.
📖 Nudge: Why Product Managers Should Become Proficient Choice Architects
Why product managers should master choice architecture. Insights from Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein applied to product design and decision-making.
Don’t Ask For More Resources: Do More With What You Have!
Why asking for more resources is counterproductive for product managers. Learn to align goals with your team’s capacity and lead them to success.
The Dark Side of Authority
Why using authority to decide can hurt your team’s growth. Learn the power of influence over formal authority in product management and leadership.
Trifecta: How to maximize a product teams impact
How the trifecta model maximizes product team impact by capturing value, usability, and feasibility through cross-functional collaboration.