Notes

Notes

Thinking out loud on product, AI, fintech, and life. Essays, reflections, and experiments along the way.

September 2026

Your roadmap is answering the wrong question

Why customer outcomes and commercial rationale belong on the same roadmap.

September 2026

Making ideas tangible, earlier

Putting Spec Driven Development into practice with AI and PM prototypes, while keeping the problem open to question.

August 2026

Who Is “The Business,” Exactly?

The people described as “the business” change from startups to scale-ups to financial services. The political function of the phrase rarely does.

June 2026

What two days of chaos taught me about planning

Five product areas, two days, one room. Some chaos is the good kind. Here's what three very different planning cultures taught me about what actually doesn't change.

June 2026

Product vs Platform: does the distinction actually matter?

Everyone calls themselves a platform now. But the word is doing different work depending on who's saying it, and that confusion has real consequences.

May 2026

My User Manual

I write a user manual at the start of every new product role. Here's the 2026 version and what's changed since 2022.

Personal experiment

A Life in Chapters

A bilingual, seven-chapter life narrative built with Claude from a single prompt. What iteration looks like in practice.