thoughts
Thoughts.
Essays on product, AI and automation — and what changes when a Product Owner can build, not just manage.
Subscribe (RSS)How AI changes Product Ownership
AI4 min readFrom writing tickets to designing the systems that write them. What stays, what goes.
Stakeholders don’t want tickets, they want outcomes
Product4 min readWhy the best product conversations start with the problem to solve, not the ticket to write.
Data beats opinions — most of the time
Data4 min readWhere analytics should make the call, and where product judgment has to take over.
Why product people should build more
SaaS5 min readShipping small tools yourself changes how you write requirements, estimate and decide.
When product people open their own PRs
Dev5 min readHow AI could help product people turn ideas into working pull requests — and what that changes between product and engineering.
Where I think I’m wrong
Meta4 min readThe honest counter-arguments to everything else here. The objections to my own positions I don’t have clean answers to.
How AI changed my day as a Product Owner
AI3 min readAI didn’t replace my job — it changed my day. On treating AI as an amplifier, and ChatGPT as the everyday sparring partner.
When meetings and notes become knowledge
AI3 min readMost of a product’s knowledge lives in meetings and scattered notes — and quietly evaporates. How I keep it, with Fireflies and Obsidian.
Why context matters more than the model
AI4 min readThe gap between a general chatbot and a productive AI system isn’t the model — it’s context. On coding agents, GitHub and a connected system.
From a conversation to a pull request
AI3 min readHow a feature travels from a meeting to a reviewed pull request with AI — and why the human still owns the result.