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Notes on product leadership, AI-native delivery, and what we’re learning building products with ambitious teams.

Product Leadership · Jun 2026

What Fort Minor Taught Me About Product Leadership.

The hardest part of product transformation isn't the technology—it's helping organizations navigate uncertainty and align around a different future.

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Product Leadership · Jun 2026

I Thought I Was Taking a Detour from Product.

How a solutions engineering role turned out to be the most formative product experience of his career—and why the detour wasn't a detour at all.

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Leadership & Life · Jun 2026

My Dad Was a Good Man.

A reflection on how a father's example—quiet, principled, endlessly curious—shaped the leadership values that still hold.

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Technology & Strategy · Jun 2026

Technology Is Hard, but It Usually Turns Out to Be the "Easy" Part.

Being right about a technology trend is not the same as capturing the value it creates—a pattern that holds from Minitel to cloud to AI.

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SaaS Pricing · May 2026

The Hardest Problem in Outcome Pricing Isn't Measurement.

Outcome pricing works when work is discrete, success is observable, and attribution is clear. Most software fails at least one of those conditions.

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SaaS Evolution · May 2026

From Minitel to AI: Living Through Seven Technology Shifts.

Thirty-four years of technology transitions share a consistent pattern: hype, bubble, then quiet embeddedness. AI is following the same arc.

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AI-Native SaaS · May 2026

Semantic Layers, AI Agents, and Why BI Architecture Suddenly Matters Again.

When agents execute directly against data definitions, semantic consistency stops being a reporting concern and becomes critical operational infrastructure.

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Building with AI · Apr 2026

How I Built a Production SaaS Product in ~30 Days with AI.

Building GeoSheet in a month compressed the timeline dramatically. Architecture, product strategy, and judgment stayed irreducibly human.

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Building with AI · Apr 2026

What building a SaaS product in ~30 days with AI actually taught me.

Speed changed everything except the core product question: what is actually worth building.

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