When Not to Use AI in Your Product: The 2 + 2 Test
AI is cheap per call and expensive at scale. A practical test for founders and product teams: when…
When Fraud Looks Like Growth: Chargebacks in Digital Goods
Rising sales of gift cards, top-ups and eSIMs can hide stolen-card fraud that only shows up weeks later…
When to Hire a Fractional Product Manager (and When Not To)
A fractional product manager can bring structure and clear decisions to a startup without a full-time hire. Drawing…
Ride-Hailing Is a Product Problem, Not a Pricing War
Ride-hailing read from the back seat, not the boardroom. Articles on safety, personas, pivots and service, from a…
The First 30 Days Inheriting Someone Else’s Product
New product leaders often try to fix the roadmap in week one. That is usually the wrong move.…
AI Made Shipping Fast. It Made Deciding Slower
Teams can ship faster than ever with AI. But feedback still depends on manual, voluntary steps that most…
Discussion of the Week: Discovery Is Not a Prompt
AI can answer known questions. Discovery exists to uncover the unknown ones. A lesson from deploying facial recognition…
How to Know If Your Startup Has a Product Problem or a Marketing Problem
Is it a product problem or a marketing problem? Learn how retention, referrals, and customer feedback reveal where…
The Prism of Priorities: Seeing Beyond Stakeholder Noise
If I had a Prism of Priorities, I could evaluate each request clearly. But real product management is…
Why Your Product Team Isn’t Shipping (Hint: It’s Not Capacity)
Discover why your product team is stalling—it's not a capacity issue. Master strategic prioritization and ruthlessly cut back…
How to Build a Product From Scratch: A Step-by-Step Guide for Startups
A product manager's step-by-step guide to building a product from scratch: vision, validation, MVP, feature prioritization, team, and…