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2026

February 2, 2026Why Anthropic Built a "Humble" Product5 min readProduct
AskUserQuestion inverts the AI prompt paradigm. The model prompts you. What product teams can learn from Anthropic optimizing for outcomes over optics.
January 19, 2026The Feedback Trap4 min readProduct
Fast feedback lies. Slow feedback strands you. Product management gets both.

2025

November 10, 2025The Best People to Work With4 min readLeadership
The best people to work with say "you're right, I didn't see that" easily. They hold ideas loosely and adjust fast.
The Germans made the fatal mistake of confusing simplicity with stupidity.
September 23, 2025Why Strava is the Only Social App That Doesn't Suck5 min readSocial Media
How Strava became the best social network by making effort the engine.
August 7, 2025The Conversation I'll Never Have8 min readPersonal
Fifteen years ago today, my father died. This is about the father-shaped space in understanding the world, and the conversations that continue even after death.
Your favorite artist drops a new album, but instead of being a finished product set in stone, it launches like software - with version updates, beta releases, and user-submitted bug reports.
July 7, 2025When the Places We Love Get Broken8 min readCommunity
The river will flow again. We'll make new memories. But for now, we grieve what we lost, and we take care of each other.
How the company that created the modern internet dominated everything, then disappeared - and what that means for product builders today.
In 2024, Sonos delivered a masterclass in how to erode user trust. Here are the critical product management lessons every PM needs to learn from their $2B mistake.
The traditional product manager role is becoming obsolete, and AI just massively sped up that timeline. Here's what that means for the future of product creation.
The mythical 10x engineer is making way for a new star: the 10x product manager. AI is making this happen.
A candid look at how great product management is less about heroic moments and more about moving thoughtfully through different time dimensions.
Real talk about building AI products in 2025. Skip the trends, focus on what matters, and ship what users actually need.
A decade of working with engineers has taught me what truly matters in the age of AI - and it's not what you might think.