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AI Strategy & BuildingDeep dive
A 2018 Google PM Is Worth Less Than a Two-Year AI-Native Builder
The hiring signal has inverted. Prestige credentials from the big-tech era correlate weakly with AI fluency. Screen for recency, not brand.
6 May13 min read
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AI Strategy & BuildingDeep dive
The Skills That Got You Promoted Are the Ones Making You Obsolete
Success in the old operating model is a reinvention tax. The senior leaders who mastered roadmap theatre and stakeholder alignment struggle most to adapt.
4 May13 min read
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AI Strategy & BuildingDeep dive
30,000 Out. 8,000 In. The Great PM Cull Is Underway.
The 2024–2026 layoff cycle isn't a ZERP correction. It's a talent swap at a 3.75:1 ratio, with an entirely different skill filter. Most discourse misses it.
1 May10 min read
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AI Strategy & BuildingDeep dive
AI Is a Five-Layer Cake. Pick the Slice That Keeps Paying.
Energy, chips, systems, models, applications. Every layer matters. Only one pays compounding returns. A framework for picking yours.
29 Apr11 min read
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Industry & MarketsDeep dive
Agents Are the Heaviest SaaS Users You'll Ever Onboard
Every useful agent becomes a power user of the SaaS underneath it. Install base explodes, API calls multiply, workflow gets more essential, not less.
27 Apr10 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
AI Chat Security Is Still Too Easy to Jailbreak
Current AI chat security best practices: prompt injection testing, external guardrails, action boundaries, and defence in depth.
24 Apr19 min read
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AI Strategy & Building
Every Team Has a Barrel Problem. AI Just Exposed It.
Keith Rabois' barrels vs. ammunition framework reframes what AI changes about teams. More ammunition without more barrels solves the wrong problem.
22 Apr8 min read
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AI Strategy & Building
You'll Get the AI Org Design Wrong Twice
Most enterprise AI teams centralise first, then decentralise. Both fail. Here's the hub-and-spoke structure that actually works.
20 Apr6 min read
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AI Strategy & Building
Enterprise AI Adoption Fails at the Harness, Not the Model
90%+ enterprise AI tool access, most people stuck in chat. The rollout bottleneck isn't the model. It's the harness. Here's the product fix.
17 Apr6 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
The Right Friction Converts Better Than None
Product teams reflexively strip onboarding friction. Intentional friction that helps users understand why the product is for them increases conversion.
15 Apr10 min read
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AI Strategy & Building
AI Adoption Metrics Are Broken. Watch Your CMO.
The top AI user in high-performing companies isn't engineering — it's the CMO. Here's why that's the real signal for whether AI adoption has reached the decision layer.
13 Apr7 min read
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AI Strategy & BuildingDeep dive
Leave Money on the Table. It Grows Back.
The best AI growth teams deliberately sacrifice short-term metrics. Restraint on pricing, error handling, and safety compounds into retention and trust.
10 Apr10 min read
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