Reflections on product management, leadership, technology, and professional growth
Everyone on my team accelerated individually with AI, and then we all started working from different snapshots of reality. So I built a shared repository that captures progress, decisions and stakeholders across 23 initiatives, plus the checks that tell me whether any of it is still true.
"A shared brain that's outdated or aggregating incorrectly is arguably worse than having no shared brain at all."
R.F. Kuang's Babel imagines an empire that runs on silver bars etched with cross-language word pairs. Pull the silver, the empire breaks. I read it and saw our AI moment in the mirror: real magic, real leverage, and a dependency we are quietly building into the load-bearing structure of how we work.
"We keep stacking AI on top of itself, faster than we can read what we just built."
After an extensive data refresh analysis where AI confidently produced plausible but wrong results, I built a structured context file to encode domain rules and prevent silent errors. On human judgment, trust, and why domain expertise is the differentiator in AI-assisted analytics.
"The numbers looked right until someone with domain expertise said 'that doesn't smell right.'"
Over the past two years, I've explored how AI can transform product management work—from basic prompt engineering to autonomous agents. Here's what I've learned about the 5 levels of AI utility and how they're reshaping our approach to building products.
"The most powerful applications of AI in product management aren't about replacing human judgment—they're about augmenting our ability to make better decisions faster."
Practicing gratitude has become a meaningful part of my daily routine. At work, amidst the whirlwind of back-to-back meetings, it's just as important to intentionally recognize and appreciate one another.
"Simple gestures like a thank you or a connected recognition go a long way toward building strong, successful collaborations."
Shane Parrish's "Clear Thinking" is a practical and profound handbook for better decision-making. It covers everything from recognizing mental traps to protecting focus time and making life-defining choices.
"The quality of our thinking determines the quality of our outcomes. Clear thinking isn't a gift—it's a skill we can develop."