Writing
Articles, frameworks, and field notes
Over 50 articles on product management and AI — drawn from
real decisions, real projects, and real teams.
Latest
New articles on AI + Product
Agent Teams
Building with AI Teams: A Framework in Three Parts
A practitioner's guide — drawn from building a real product, with a 12-agent team, and over 20 years of knowing what breaks.
Part 1 — The Playbook
The Agent Teams Playbook: What It Is and Why I'm Building It
The framework behind everything I've written about AI teams — three meta-skills, three levels, one coherent model. This is where it started and where it's going.
March 2026
Part 2 — The Agent
The Anthropological Hire: How I Treat AI Agents Like Employees
Job design, identity files, model fit, and the moment one of my agents internalized the hiring persona. The atomic unit of every AI team.
March 2026
part 3 - The Team
How I Built a Communications System for My AI Team — And What It's Teaching Me
A co-authored piece with Shorty 🥃 on the file-based system I built to coordinate thirteen agents. Written using the very infrastructure it describes.
Read the co-authored article →
March 2026
FEATURED
Burner Apps: The Software You're Supposed to Delete
I built an app for a client. It worked perfectly. Then I deleted it. That was always the plan. A new framework for purpose-built, disposable software.
February 2026
Collaboration
How Two of Us Started Using Claude Cowork in Parallel
A system for parallel AI collaboration using nothing but a shared folder.
AI THINKING
The AI Blindspot Series
A three-part exploration of AI's fundamental limitations: memory, feedback loops, and outcome tracking.
ARCHIVE
A Year in the Life of a PM
An unprecedented 52-week article series where I documented a major product decision each week as the Product Leader of a Chicago-based SaaS company. 50+ real-world decisions — from presenting roadmaps to the board to pulling features from a release.
Q1 2015
13 articles covering product vision, wish lists, roadmap presentations, MVP decisions, and more.
Q2 2015
13 articles on product roadmapping, trade shows, priority recalibration, and customer training.
Q3 2015
13 articles on R&D projects, product research, public speaking, and customer brainstorming
Q4 2015
13 articles on product celebrations, prototyping, data-driven decisions, and year-end reflection.
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