Product Lessons·
The Camera Is the Easy Part
I went into a conversation about safety AI thinking about cameras. I came out thinking about what happens after an alert, especially when it is wrong.
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Products, agents, small games, big mistakes, and the occasional story that would not leave me alone.
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AI Systems
What broke, what lied about being alive, and what made the systems easier to trust.
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AIAgenticAIReliability
What AI Agents Are Bad At, and Why That Matters More Than What They’re Good At
One agent said it was working every thirty seconds for nearly an hour before failing. That taught me more about trust than any clean demo.
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AIAgenticAIGovernance
I Didn't Plan the Guardrails. My Agents Made Me Build Them.
Five failures from my 9-agent AI fleet, and the guardrails they forced me to build before the system could become useful.
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AIAgenticAIBuildInPublic
I Emailed a SaaS Company With Feedback. They Said No. So I Built It Myself.
When 'doesn't fit our model' becomes 'fine, I'll build my own model.' A real story about agency, AI agents, and never asking for permission again.
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AIAgenticAIBuildInPublic
The Free AI Model Cost Me More Than the Expensive One
Why price-per-token is the wrong metric. Cost isn't what you pay in tokens. It's what you pay in time, failed iterations, and rework.
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AIAgenticAIProductManagement
I Stopped Prompting AI. Here's What I Do Instead.
The real unlock isn't a better AI tool. It's building a system where AI does the work before you even sit down.
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Product Lessons
What the work looked like after the roadmap met a real person and a bad day.
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AIProductManagementSafetyTech
The Camera Is the Easy Part
I went into a conversation about safety AI thinking about cameras. I came out thinking about what happens after an alert, especially when it is wrong.
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ProductManagementRoadmapsPrioritization
The Hardest PM Skill Is Killing Work That Almost Makes Sense
Strong product judgment is knowing when to stop plausible work before it drains the work that matters.
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AIAgenticAIProductManagement
I've Been a PM for 10 Years. Building an AI Fleet Used Skills I Didn't Know I Had.
Running a 9-agent AI fleet taught me that the skills still look like product work: specs, sequencing, definitions of done, and retros.
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Personal Stories
Games, family, hard things, and the parts of life that are not product work.
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FeedbackLoopsProductBuildInPublic
Motivation Is a Flaky Friend
Most of the time, I do not need a better pep talk. I need reality to show up faster.
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AutomationJudgmentBuildInPublic
What to Leave Unautomated
I like automating things. I also like knowing when to make the machine put the keyboard down.
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CreativeWorkBuildInPublicGames
Not Everything I Build Has to Be Useful
I built a Nepali browser game with Bir, Asha, square puddles, and Everest gusts. Not every build needs a business case.
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EnduranceChallengeStory
Two Brothers, One Van, 48 Hours of Pain Ahead
Aseem and Shyam start an amplified 4x4x48 challenge on the Manitou Incline, where the ordinary calm before the start is the most revealing part of the story.
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Occasional notes on product, AI, building, and the questions I cannot leave alone.