You're shipping more with AI and at least half of it can feel like slop. That feeling is correct, and it's also the reason your odds of a hit just went up. ...
Part of the “Getting Past Your Own Reasons Not to Ship” series
You still have twenty interests. You just can't feel any of them. Three tabs open. A new programming language, a photography technique, a business model tha...
Part of the “The Polymath/Multipotentialite's Survival Guide” series
Pattern recognition feels exactly like progress. That's what makes it dangerous. You've read the case studies. You can identify why some products win and ot...
Part of the “Getting Past Your Own Reasons Not to Ship” series
You've poured everything into the details. The real test is whether all that work becomes invisible. I keep returning to two sayings, both probably apocryph...
AI isn't replacing the best or the cheapest. It's squeezing out everyone in between. A web designer charges $5,000 for a small business website. Above her, ...
Part of the “The AI-Era Product Strategy Reading Path” series
You've got a fundamentally new material in your hands. Why are you shaping it like the old one? In 1905, most reinforced concrete buildings looked exactly l...
The most expensive failure usually isn’t the flop. It’s the non-launch. It’s the moment right before it, when something could have shipped, but finding out ...
Part of the “Getting Past Your Own Reasons Not to Ship” series
Most AI talk frames it like a tireless intern. It writes the email, summarizes the meeting, cleans up the spreadsheet. The promise is efficiency. But what f...
What you choose to build now matters more than how well you build it. (and it always did) You can build almost anything in a weekend now. An AI-assisted sol...
Part of the “The AI-Era Product Strategy Reading Path” series