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“The questions worth slowing down for.
Notes from inside the work.”

Short essays on product, AI, and systems thinking. Most of them are attempts to name something that wasn't obvious to me until the third or fourth time I ran into it.

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The Difference Between Understanding a Problem and Solving It
Most teams skip the diagnostic phase entirely. Here's what that costs — and what the alternative looks like in practice.
May 9, 2026 · 8 min read
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AI · Apr 28, 2026 · 6 min

Everyone Is Shipping. Very Few Can Finish the Sentence.

Success metrics aren't a reporting exercise. They're a thinking tool — and most teams reach for them too late.

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Systems thinking · Apr 14, 2026 · 7 min

Every Black Box Is a Set of Choices Someone Made a Long Time Ago

When you understand how something works, you stop accepting it as a given.

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