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April 27, 2026
The Token Cycle
The same providers who built the cultural argument for expanding AI consumption are now balancing infrastructure against revenue. For product people, adoption creates lock-in before any conscious decision about dependency.
April 20, 2026
Harrison Bergeron Was Not Fiction
Students who write well are being flagged as suspected AI users. The signal has been inverted: competence became evidence of cheating. This goes beyond schools.
April 13, 2026
Design Critique
From a product perspective, a well-run design critique is governance. It is the moment when decisions that are still cheap to reverse get examined before they become expensive.
April 6, 2026
In 2025, AI Produced More Text Than All of Humanity Has Written Since Gutenberg
The cost of producing guesswork dressed as research has dropped to zero. For product people, this changes how much weight you can give any analysis without verifying where it came from.
March 30, 2026
Design System by Prompt
DESIGN.md can export the rules. It cannot export the reasoning behind them. Tools become obsolete. Judgment does not.
March 23, 2026
Vibe Coding or Lucky Coding?
AI democratized execution. But it did not democratize judgment. Lucky code is just guesswork with a modern interface.
March 16, 2026
There Is a Moment in Every Designer's Career When the Screen Is No Longer Enough
When the tool, the method, or the routine becomes the goal, the product falls to second place. The biggest waste of design talent is not making something ugly — it is making something beautiful that never should have existed.
March 9, 2026
Low Unemployment, Broken Market. Why the Numbers Do Not Match Reality
Unemployment is low, but LinkedIn tells a different story. The problem is not the economy — it is the metric. Macro indicators are not lying. They are just looking in the wrong place.
March 2, 2026
If It Is Now Possible to Go from Idea to Product in Minutes, What Still Justifies Process?
AI drastically reduced the cost of execution, but not the cost of decision-making. And poorly made decisions only scale waste more efficiently.
February 23, 2026
Google's WebMCP: The Birth of the AI-Friendly Product
WebMCP proposes something structural: allowing sites to expose their capabilities declaratively to AI models. Products that are more legible to machines tend, paradoxically, to become clearer to humans as well.
February 16, 2026
The Rise of AI Use at Work
Maturity is not about using AI more. It is about knowing where to use it, why to use it, and how much value it actually delivers — without confusing speed with progress.
February 9, 2026
OpenClaw
OpenClaw is not succeeding just because it is technically impressive. It is succeeding because it promises something many people have been quietly wanting: to delegate everything. Not just tasks, but responsibility.
February 2, 2026
The Market Is Not Hiring More People. It Is Hiring Better Decisions
The market is not rewarding those who execute better. It is rewarding those who decide better. The more complex the system, the more expensive a bad decision becomes — and the less reversible it is.
January 26, 2026
The False Modernization of AI-Driven Products
Automating guesswork does not turn it into strategy. The problem with using AI to 'modernize' products without context, without data, and without judgment.
January 19, 2026
Take This Metric: "All Humans Together Blink Hundreds of Trillions of Times a Day"
A metric is only useful when it forces a decision. If it goes up, something changes. If it goes down, something changes. If nothing changes, it is not a metric — it is analytical entertainment.
January 12, 2026
What If a Defect Were Proof of Excellence?
Defective LEGO pieces are worth more than the original — not because they are defective, but because the error is extremely rare within a highly reliable system. What does this reveal about excellence in product?
January 5, 2026
If Product Management Seems Confusing, It Is Because We Stopped Following Manuals and Started Thinking
The PM role has never been static. From fixed plans to Agile, from Product Owner to strategist, the function evolved with the markets — and AI is exposing who decides well versus who merely executes increasingly sophisticated processes.