For a long time, leadership was treated as a volume game. The person who spoke the most in a meeting, who projected certainty at every turn, and who filled any pause with words was assumed to be the natural leader. Confidence was often mistaken for competence and visibility for value. That model felt normal in…
Let me get straight to the point. I still believe in roadmaps. What I no longer believe in is the corporate obsession with building them in isolation, dressing them up for slides, and treating them like contracts carved in stone. At some point, roadmaps stopped being a way to communicate direction and became a performance….
It started as a simple test. A question that I kept circling around while watching the AI hype grow: what if I stop using OpenAI’s assistant and run my own local model instead? No APIs, no third-party servers, full privacy, total control. Could it work? Could I actually replace a commercial-grade AI assistant with an…
We talk a lot about metrics in product management. Activation rates. Conversion funnels. Session length. But here’s the thing nobody really likes to admit: most of our metrics stop at the edge of the app. We assume what happens after a feature ships is someone else’s problem. Support will handle it. IT will troubleshoot it….
When people talk about “marketplaces,” the conversation usually starts and ends with Amazon. And sure, Amazon has rewritten the rules for what consumers expect, at least in the U.S. But once you step outside that bubble, it becomes obvious: marketplaces are not created equal. Each region has built its own version of what a marketplace…