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- AI Gives You the Ability to Run Ten Things at Once. That's Not Always a Good Idea.
AI expands what you can run in parallel, but cognitive load doesn't scale with capability.
- Democratising AI Is the Easy Part
Giving everyone access to AI tools solves the wrong problem if the knowledge those tools need stays locked in people's heads.
- The Bar Moves
The real risk of AI in the workplace isn't replacement — it's that the bar for what one person delivers quietly shifts upward.
- The Tooling Didn't Fix the Instinct
Better project management tools haven't solved the core problem: the instinct to build everything before you need it.
- Strategy Is Not a Goal
Confusing strategy with goals is mostly harmless in a team meeting. In a boardroom, it quietly costs you trust.
- Full Stack Leadership
The leaders who struggle in smaller, autonomous teams are the ones who can only operate at one layer.
- Confident Answers Are Not Green Lights
AI answers sound authoritative even when they're wrong. The problem isn't the model — it's outsourcing the validation.
- Qualifying, Not Outsourcing
When AI does the work in two hours that used to take months, the unsettling part isn't the speed — it's what the speed reveals about where your value actually sits.
- Most AI Debates Compare the Wrong Things
Everyone's benchmarking model quality. Most organisations should be mapping their data instead.
- Five Prototypes, and Still Not Learning
AI lets you build five prototypes in the time it used to take to spec one. That's faster building, not faster learning.
- What Happens When You Apply Product Thinking to IT
Taking on the global IT function after 25 years in product has been humbling — and clarifying.
- When 'Not Yet' Points You at the Real Work
The right response to a strategic blocker isn't always to push harder — sometimes it's to step sideways and build the thing that's already useful.
- Automating Junior Roles Cuts the Leadership Pipeline
Junior roles have never just been about the task. They're how people learn how decisions actually get made.
- AI Won't Replace Product Managers. But It Will Expose Weak Ones.
The claim that AI will replace PMs because it can write PRDs misunderstands what product management is actually for.