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June 10, 2026 · 2 min read The Pie Gets Bigger There's a chart that haunts professional conversations these days. It shows theoretical AI capability in blue—massive, overwhelming—and actual AI usage in… May 6, 2026 · 3 min read The AI Efficiency Trap There is a particular kind of promise that accompanies every new technology. It tells us that life will become lighter. That effort will diminish. That time… April 22, 2026 · 1 min read Showing value in the world of AI AI boosts productivity. That part is real. Customer support workers using AI improved output by ~14%, with the biggest gains among the least skilled. (NBER) April 15, 2026 · 4 min read The Revenue Focus Trap In business, as in life, we are drawn to the measurable. We hunger for proof. In relationships, we ask for signs of love. In health, we check our weight.… March 11, 2026 · 4 min read The Seductive Charm of “Vibe Coding” From time to time, we are invited by technology into the arms of what feels like liberation: the possibility of making something significant without the… 5 min read AI and SaaS There was a time when the promise of software was access. You logged in. You clicked through menus. You paid, quietly and predictably, for a seat. 4 min read AI Literacy and Being Human There is a quiet confusion spreading through boardrooms, classrooms, and career advice columns. When people speak of becoming "AI literate," they tend to… 3 min read AI Strategy There is a pattern visible in almost every office right now. Someone discovers that an AI tool can draft emails, summarize documents, or generate slide… 4 min read Finding your Moat Warren Buffett borrowed the image from medieval warfare: a castle surrounded by water, impenetrable from the outside. In business, the moat is whatever… 2 min read From Automation to Intelligence There's a peculiar moment in the evolution of any powerful technology when we realize we've been using it all wrong. We built factories to automate labor… 4 min read Swiss Army Knife Product Managers Is there a downside to having overly versatile product managers? Are your product managers doing too much of the wrong work? Discover how product manager… 3 min read The AI Hype Cycle We often imagine that progress follows a calm, rational trajectory: one discovery leading neatly to another, until the future unfolds with reassuring… 4 min read The Chasm Is Inside Your Company In 1991, Geoffrey Moore wrote a book that changed how Silicon Valley thought about technology markets. His insight was deceptively simple: there is a… 3 min read The Deployment Gap There is a familiar scene playing out in boardrooms right now. A company announces its AI strategy. It books a two-day workshop. Employees learn to write… 2 min read The EU AI Act Product leaders typically spend their days navigating trade-offs between speed, quality, and cost. What they rarely pause to consider is that their next big… 2 min read The PM Advantage As artificial intelligence continues to reduce the cost and time required to build software, you might expect product managers to become less essential.… 2 min read Your Company Has a Personality There is a kind of corporate self-deception that rarely gets named. A bank hires a Chief Innovation Officer and buys a ping-pong table. A scrappy startup…