Notes
Short essays on product and leadership.
Each one starts from a real decision I've made, about a product or a team.
4 min read
Pushing teams without pushing people
Teams stall on ambiguous problems because they lack a shared picture, not shared information. Give them a vision concrete enough to rule things out, then organize the work on purpose, because the shape of the team becomes the shape of the product.
3 min read
Don't blame the model for your layoffs
AI didn't fire anyone. Leaders did. Hiding a business decision behind the model disrespects the people leaving and wears down the trust the people who stay need to ship good AI products.
3 min read
Why I picked Haiku for Field Kit's either-or questions
When the job is filling in a fixed structure, Haiku 4.5 starts answering well under a second sooner than Sonnet at a fraction of the price. Pick a model per task, not per product.
2 min read
Three AI product bets for 2026
Write the eval set before the spec, ship agents like teammates, and route each task to the right model instead of the biggest one. AI product work is starting to look like systems design.