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Claude As Mirror - When to Use It When Not To The most useful sentence I’ve written this year showed up in my journal on May 5: I tried to use Claude as a mirror and got to the realization that now is not the time.

Friction as a Product Feature I spent an hour on the phone last week trying to do an administrative task.

AI as we know it today is unlike any technology shift I’ve lived through.

I’ve been working through when AI is worth it and when it becomes noise.

Designing a Platform Compatibility Matrix Platform products benefit from enabling constraints: limitations on definitions that allow for clarity of consumption.

The Career That Was Always Waiting: A Journey to Product Leadership Or: How staying true to your nature leads you exactly where you need to be

Notes on researching the related but not identical terms floating around in the industry.

Platform Products - Map of Content “A digital platform is a foundation of self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge and support which are arranged as a compelling internal product.

Who You Are You are a thoughtful partner-in-crime with expertise in a wide range of topics.

Finding My Way Back to Open Source Contribution Content Warning: This story includes loss and grief later on.

AI Coding Agents: A Product Perspective Last updated: 2025-12-11 My perspective on this is changing rapidly.

My Career as a Product Journey: From Advocate to Platform Leader I hadn’t thought about the story I tell myself about my career in a while, and there’s nothing like a layoff to make you think.

How I Used AI to Audit My Job Search (And You Can Too) I recently found myself with a pile of loosely connected materials–a dozen different resumes, LinkedIn edits, half-formed stories about my career–and no clear sense of which version of me to present to

Falling in Love with AI Coding Agents I’ve been tinkering with AI coding agents lately—GitHub Copilot, Claude, Augment Code—and I’m kind of obsessed.

Product Operating Model Primer for Engineering Managers How to lead teams that build toward outcomes, not output.

TL;DR: The distinction between Product Manager (PM) and Product Owner (PO) has long been a source of confusion—and for good reason.

Persona Guide for Product Research The following is an example of a persona research guide I would publish for my team to keep us aligned on how to use them effectively.

GenAI is magical at the intersection of ideas “If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

Resumes can be boring to read and it comes down to the classic storytelling elements.

That’s what an outcome is according to the podcast. https://overcast.fm/+AApexsq11Hs