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10 entries in this collection.
- Identifying and implementing AI opportunities: an update
Results from the first find, prove, scale project nine months in, and why the monitoring layer turned out to be the bigger asset.
- Influencing without authority
None of the teams I work with report to me. Notes on getting workflows changed anyway.
- My RAG setup is just Obsidian now
The clever retrieval experiment gave way to plain markdown files, and it works better.
- From AI experiments to AI products
A new job where AI is the whole job, and the first thing I've had to unlearn.
- My first RAG experiment
After a year of hand-feeding custom GPTs, I finally tried retrieval. Notes from the first rough version.
- How I'm putting AI to work as a product manager
Managing six people and maintaining custom GPTs turned out to be the same lesson about context.
- Staying accountable for AI-assisted work
What I expect from my team, and from myself, now that a lot of our first drafts come from AI.
- How to get buy-in from stakeholders with competing priorities
What I've learned about winning resources for a product when every decision-maker is measured on something different.
- What taking a product from zero to one taught me
A three-month reflection on launching a recruiting platform across 26 offices.
- The Questions I Ask Before Writing a PRD
The questions I use to clarify a product problem, test assumptions, and prepare a PRD before writing requirements.