Product Management · Strategy
Treat requirements as guesses
Requirements are untested hypotheses. Passing them through is how products bloat. Test them and cut the ones that do not hold.
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Product Management · Software Engineering · Leadership
Keep the problem in one head
The combination of PM, architect, data, and engineer used to look too broad. With AI applications, it is the scarce standard almost nobody brings.
Leadership · Strategy
Learn enough to disagree well
Enough fluency in the neighboring craft to smell a bad trade-off and push back with a real view. Not to become an expert, but to disagree well.
Product Management · Strategy
Simple wins
Simple wins, but only if you pay the price. You cannot fill the product, you cannot sprint full throttle. You have to stay in the race.
Leadership · Strategy
Trust the process
Chronic urgency is leftover unthought work. Stay with the process you set when it was quiet. Do not join the scramble.
Product Management · Strategy
You can't cut what you don't understand
Without a deep model, every decision becomes a guess that hardens into cost. Understanding is required to see what can be removed.