The shift from traditional software development to AI-integrated product cycles is exposing a 'justification tax' and structural latency that existing frameworks like Agile aren't fully equipped to handle. Success now depends on learning velocity over raw feature output, requiring leaders to pivot from managing tasks to managing context, psychological safety, and monetization strategies.
Why does moving forward without all the answers feel so uncomfortable for some of us? Let’s take a look at planning, flexibility, and learning to move forward without all the answers. Because whether we admit it or not, that last part is where th...
Practical take on how modern attention trends like “brainrot” shape player habits and influence free-to-play design.Read All
Explore why focusing on monetization beats “one more feature,” with a practical framework for prioritizing revenue impact over endless feature builds. Read All
How AI breaks flow, fragments attention, and quietly changes how product teams think Monday morning I sat down to write about AI-induced distraction. Then, while waiting for ChatGPT to finish a response to a proposed outline, I checked Slack. Nex...
Something Big is Happening, or so a lot of people want to believeAll morning people have been asking me about a blog post by Matt Shumer that has gone viral, with nearly 50 million views on X. It’s a masterpiece of hype, written in the style of t...
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Several years ago, I volunteered to help plan and run our high school reunion. I know that I’m the type of person who can get things done, plan successful events, and organize groups successfully. So I wanted to help. But I ended up saying “yes” t...
This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here. OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its seven employees to other teams, Platformer has learned. Joshua Achiam,...
Audio Version ($) I've been getting a lot of questions about why I'm diving so deep into Claude Code. So I want to take a step back and provide some context. Last March, when I started building my first AI product—the Product Talk Interview Coac...
TLDR: Shipping Fast and Iterating at AI Speed" explores why traditional startup speed advice fails in AI development. The blog argues that real AI speed isn't about moving faster than competitors, but about learning velocity—understanding what "go...
Back when no one had run the 4 minute mile, everyone thought it was impossible. Then in May 1954, Roger Bannister ran it. Even though physicians had claimed it was medically impossible, within three years, about ten other people broke it too. The ...
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I put the newest AI coding models from OpenAI and Anthropic head-to-head, testing them on real engineering work I’m actually doing. I compare GPT-5.3 Codex with Opus 4.6 (and Opus 4.6 Fast) by asking them to redesign my marketing website and refac...
The 80% job: how design leads are using AI — and it’s not about mockups Design leads spend 80% of their time communicating, aligning, and justifying. That’s exactly where AI helps most. Image generated with MidjourneyPart 1: The Reality of Desig...
In this episode of Mostly Growth, Kyle Poyar and CJ Gustafson break down how newsletters went from career risk to career leverage. Drawing on their own stories, they walk through a tactical, no-fluff guide to starting and growing a newsletter—from...
