Insights
Grounded, commercially sharp writing for product leaders, founders and C-suite teams — on product strategy, AI-native operating models, defensibility and the craft of leading product. No jargon. No hype.
The product skills that won the last decade are now actively working against your revenue.
Tend the people, engineer the flow: reconciling AI as ecology and AI as operating system
Seven layers of an AI-native product OS (and where most teams stop at layer one)
It behaves like an ecology. I worked that out from a book I found in a charity shop about 10 years ago. The part the book gets wrong is the part that matters most for anyone leading it.
Most product visions are either too vague to guide decisions or too inflated to survive first contact with reality. No matter how aspirational. Here’s how to build one that actually works.
Seven years on, does product leadership look different in the mirror?
A practical take on how I design and run product organisations — and why most companies don’t have a true Product OS at all.
Product leadership, by the people who live it, not just talk about it.
A practical look at why your market positioning often outpaces your product’s real defences — and how to bring them back into alignment.
Product leadership, by the people who live it, not just talk about it.
A practical guide to building defensibility in an AI-first world