Daeus Jorento

I am writing this to prepare for a panel discussion on product leadership in the agentic era at the October 2026 SPM Summit at Berkeley.

Eye-watering valuations of AI companies have felt mysterious to me, so I wanted to understand what they actually measure.

Diagnosing a Slow Query This is a living document.

Let us pretend that all skills and abilities are malleable.

Overview This blog post is the tactical, internal counterweight to Positioning, Leverage, and Judgment.

I started therapy seriously at age 28.

A zoomed-out follow-up to Game Theory Patterns at Work.

This is a living document.

Intro When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all. – God (Futurama) In many environments, people value logical reasoning, effort, and speed.

This is a working map I’m building for myself.

For the thousands affected by Block’s 40% layoffs, this is a difficult and painful change, and it will take time to adjust and figure out next steps.

Foundations: Games, Rationality, and Traps In organizations, strategies and execution are interdependent.