Writing
Thinking out loud about product, operations, and the systems between them.
Stop Designing Your Graphics. Start Compiling Them
Build the first draft of your graphics with an MCP server Writers already do the hard part: turning messy thinking into a clear argument. The frustrating part comes after. You fini…
Mar 30Subscriptions Attract Browsers. Single Purchase Attracts Buyers.
A single price provides a clear market position against subscriptions When you buy your next speaker, are you going to grab whatever Bluetooth is on sale at Best Buy? Or are you go…
Mar 26You’re using AI wrong
Photo by Sen on Unsplash I asked a friend this week what he was building with AI. “I’m doing some pretty interesting things with ChatGPT,” he said. I waited for the rest of the sen…
Mar 16Use your Exoskeleton
AI speeds up the game. It doesn’t remove the product decisions needed. Emoji seem like a small thing, but the ones that stick make it to the keyboard of every mobile phone in the w…
Mar 9Design Navigation from the Inside Out
Instead of starting with a nav item, identify what users want In 2023, I wrote about building software from cow paths. The idea was simple: study how people actually work and desig…
Mar 2The Three Minute AI Skill Test
The first time I used a large language model, it felt like cheating. I dropped in messy notes and got back a cleaner argument than I could have written in one pass. It surfaced con…
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