Topic
Product
Product, leadership, teams, integrations, and the hard calls.
I Cloned Wispr Flow. For Me, It Works Even Better.
I left Wispr Flow for my own offline dictation in k0. Not to save money: for freedom. And what it taught me about products that are only surface, owning the engine, and being everywhere.
You Can See the Potential, But the Owner Sets the Speed
Ten lessons from working as a growth engineer on a business that is not mine: the owner sets the speed, the contract is one page, the data is the only judge.
Imperfection Is the New Lean
From Gantt charts to releasing every day or two: as a solo builder, accepting imperfection and iterating with customers is the only way to survive, and to ship good products.
Something Even Faster Than AI Prototypes (My Friend's Brilliant Approach)
Why validating an idea directly with real customers as a hidden service beats jumping straight into AI-built prototypes.
When Being Too Involved Becomes a Problem (A Lesson in Over-Ownership)
How over-ownership backfired when a PM overstepped his scope, and a framework for involving stakeholders and documenting business cases properly.
Facts vs. Projections: The Principle That Changed How I Work (and Live)
A principle for separating objective facts from the opinions and expectations layered on top, applied to work decisions and relationships.
When Your Engineers Fight For Your Product (You Know You've Won)
When engineers fight for your product vision it signals trust, a compelling vision, and true ownership, and what to ask when your team isn't there yet.
Never Leave a Meeting Without Documentation (My Offsite Lesson)
Why writing down and agreeing on meeting decisions prevents repeated discussions, using an offsite lesson and divergent-convergent thinking as examples.
Stop Saying "You're Good"—Here's How to Actually Give Feedback
A situation-action-consequence model for giving feedback that is specific, fact-based, and actually useful instead of generic praise.
Are You the Sprinter or the Coach? (A Mental Model That Fixed My PM Frustration)
A sprinter-versus-coach mental model for clarifying PM and developer responsibilities, and why AI will shift the ratio toward more coaches.
Build vs Buy: My Integration Nightmare from 400+ Self-Developed Integrations to Sanity
A first-hand account of the build-vs-buy integration tradeoff and a breakdown of the iPaaS landscape into key categories for SaaS product leaders.