For decades, we have been conditioned to see software as a set of tools that wait for us. We click a button, the computer responds. We type a prompt, the LLM hallucinates a poem. But a fundamental …
The Acceleration Trap: Why Constant Change Can Silence Real Progress
Change is a strategic weapon — until you use it like a machine gun. The recent piece When Change Outruns Us by Mike Fisher nails an uncomfortable truth many leaders avoid: organisations can die from …
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What Product Leaders Should Steal from Coders: Moving from AI-for-Tasks to AI-as-Workflow
When engineering teams moved from Word processors to plain-text and Git, they didn’t just change file formats — they changed how work happens. Why should product teams be any different? A recent piece …
This Year, I’m Codifying Everything: A Practical Playbook for Product Leaders
When I say I’m codifying everything, I don’t mean filling shared drives with more PDFs. I mean writing things down so precisely they can be executed by people, systems and agents reliably, measured …
Beyond Code: What Google’s 21 Lessons Teach Product Leaders About the Human Side of Building Products
I recently shared a short note about a brilliant list of observations from an engineer’s 14 years at Google. It struck a chord with me because it isn’t a manual of clever algorithms — it’s a handbook …
The Great AI Sobriety Test: Why 2026 is the Year of Pragmatic Product Leadership
The "party" of brute-force scaling is winding down, and the industry is finally starting to sober up. For the past few years, the dominant narrative for CEOs and Product Leaders was simply "bigger is …