Adam Thomas

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Your strategy might be lying to you.

Your shipped work is your real strategy.

Engineering's pushback on AI-generated code isn't resistance, and reading it that way is the most expensive misdiagnosis available to you right now.

Every time you override a team's concern about supportability, you make a withdrawal from an account nobody is tracking.

An engineer once told me she'd lost trust in my judgment.

Three weeks ago I argued that your organization prices a four-month build off a Tuesday afternoon that went well.

The phrase "last mile" is doing enormous damage in your planning meetings, and nobody has noticed because it sounds so reasonable.

Six words, and your team will spend the next quarter losing an argument to them.

A working demo used to be expensive, and that was the entire point of it.

Three weeks, three symptoms, one disease.

Your customer doesn't care that your teams are organized by function.

Watch what happens in any product org when Sales wants something.

Everyone in the room nodded.

A product story is three sentences.

Your stakeholders don't distrust your delivery because you're slow.

Your PM isn't an order taker because they're weak.

Nobody outside your team can explain what product does.

Your team already knows which products on your roadmap shouldn't be there.

"Vibe code, launch, and abandon" is the culture being championed right now.

Every zombie product has a meeting where it should have died.