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AI Killed Product Estimation
I spent 18 years estimating how long products take to build. Story points. T-shirt sizing. Sprint planning. Quarterly roadmaps. Gantt charts that …
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Ideas, frameworks, and lessons from 18 years of building products. Not theory. Things I've learned by doing it.
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How to Validate a Startup Idea in 2026 (The Old Playbook Is Dead)
Every startup blog will tell you the same thing: validate before you build. Do 20 customer interviews. Run surveys. Create a landing page. Collect …
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The Old Rules of Building Software Are Dead
For 20 years, building a software product meant the same thing. Hire a team. Write a spec. Sit through standups. Wait months. Spend six figures. Hope …
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AI Agents Helped Me Ship Five Products. Two Are Already Profitable.
I shipped five products recently. All within about six weeks. Different stacks, different users, totally different problems. Two of them are already …
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Are Large Software Teams Still Relevant in the Age of AI?
A 5-person team in 2026 can ship what a 50-person team shipped in 2016. AI has compressed the development curve dramatically. The question every …
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How to Validate an AI Product Idea (Before You Spend $50K)
Most AI products fail twice: once when the technology doesn’t work, and again when nobody wants it anyway. Traditional validation focuses on …
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Why AI Broke Product Management (And How to Fix It)
Everything you learned about product management is wrong for AI products. Roadmaps? Useless when underlying capabilities change every few weeks. …
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Everyone Has an AI Problem (Most Are Solving the Wrong One)
Your startup doesn’t have an AI problem. It has a product problem that might be solved with AI. This distinction is everything. Get it wrong, …
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Why 95% of AI Projects Fail (And the 30-Day Fix)
The main reason AI projects fail is simple: companies start with the technology instead of the problem. 42% of companies scrapped their AI initiatives …
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The PodPlaybook: Ship AI Products in 12 Weeks Without Hiring
The fastest way to ship AI products is with a pod—a small, complete team that owns outcomes—not traditional hiring. A 3-4 person pod (ML engineer + …
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