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Written as I work through the shift. Increasingly how new clients and founders find me. Published on Medium.

A Working Guide to Product Discovery in the AI Era

Building got cheap. Judgment didn't. AI removed the governor, not the constraint.

All essays

01 From Individual AI to Team AI: The Next Problem Personal AI wins are real. Team AI wins are a different problem. ↗ 02 AI Isn't a Tool. It's a Team You Have to Design. Six months ago I called this 'using AI.' I don't anymore. ↗ 03 When AI Adoption Stalls Inside an Organization People blame the tools. ↗ 04 I Built an AI System. It Had to Earn Its Access. In my quest to continue to learn about all things AI, I started with OpenClaw. ↗ 05 Betting on AI as THE Intelligence. Here's What That Misses. Two CEOs are betting AI is the work. The labs that sold them the AI just spent $11.5B betting against them. ↗ 06 AI Made the Build Faster. It Didn't Make Users Faster. When I managed Yahoo Mail, 225+ million people used it every month. ↗ 07 Most PMs Quit AI Too Soon. Reach the 4-Hour Mark. Marty Cagan ('PM guru') said two important things over the last 10 days. ↗ 08 AI Doesn't Need More Builders. It Needs Thinkers. I gave a talk at Pie Fi (a builder community) in Santa Cruz a couple weeks ago. ↗ 09 AI Didn't Unlock Everyone. It Unlocked the Connectors. My thinking on who AI actually unlocks has evolved. Here's what changed it. ↗ 10 AI Won't Replace Your Kid. The Kid Next to Them Might. Every week someone asks me some version of the same question. ↗ 11 AI Didn't Unlock Everyone. It Specifically Unlocked Product Managers. There's a specific profile of person AI unlocks. Not the programmer. Not the non-technical person. The one in between. ↗ 12 Your AI Doesn't Know What Your Team Wouldn't Ship Every company runs on judgment nobody wrote down: what your team wouldn't ship, what good means here. Your moat, and your blind spot. ↗

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