"Lean" and "small" are different things, yet most people use the words interchangeably. If you aren't familiar with it, "Lean," as a framework and philosophy for business, was invented at Toyota, a company with hundreds of thousands of employees. It's
I am a product leader. My first book is about Answer Engine Optimization, the practitioner's name for getting your content cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews, to name a few. On paper, that might sound like I'm doing a weird pivot.
I use Claude Code for hours every day. Over the past two weeks I’ve run 176 sessions, made 265 commits, and hit an 88% achievement rate across tasks. A strange thing to admit when I’d still consider myself anti-AI in many respects. You see, I started to take
"We'll use AI responsibly." Have you heard a statement like this from leadership or a colleague? Maybe you haven't even experienced those hollow words and were dismissed or ignored when trying to raise this topic. Worse, maybe you work for an AI company and
Good design is iterative. Yes, I made a blanket statement, and yes, I am standing by it. What do I mean? Iterative design builds better products through repeated cycles of prototyping, testing, and refining based on feedback. The success of a design is also contextual, based on the current end-users,
I'm challenging myself to ship 22 MVPs this March—one every weekday—fueled by my love for TTRPGs, design systems, and rapid prototyping. While I do allow myself to work on some of them for multiple days, at least two a week I am trying to start and
Design hand-off I used to do a lot of freelance/consulting work. I had a system down for negotiating contracts, aligning on final agreements, and ensuring clients understood what they were receiving and what to do with it next. I took several years off from that type of work, but
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Recently, during a group product discussion, several folks asked me to elaborate on how I approach retrospectives and reflection. What they didn't expect was that part of what has led to a pretty successful career is less about my professional nature than about how I approach reflection and
I was dealing with a difficult leader. Erratic, dismissive, controlling, and careless with the well-being of others. This person had considerable power over me and others, and it felt unsafe for any of us to push back. And this is when I received multiple batches of advice from a friend.
Lately, as I've been giving or forming new industry talks, continuing to coach folks, and interviewing at various orgs, I’ve been chatting with UX and Product Designers across the board: individual contributors, leads, heads of design. The whole gamut! There’s a pattern emerging. Common struggles I
A few years ago, I started building several small habits. I want to make things, you see, like fiction and games, but I don't have a lot of spare time. I'd heard that advice, "Just get started," so many times, but knew my real
It's 9:40 AM on Tuesday, the 20th of January, as I write this. I have a job interview in 20 minutes. Last night, I had the mother of all migraines keep me awake. I was sweating, had intense neck and temple pain, sensitive to light and the