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I teach product at MICA, and at Columbia I designed and taught Technology Management and AI/ML in full 16-week terms, 2023–2024. I’ve run a 320-person workshop at Mind the Product and, through First Principles, a hands-on AI workshop for a corporate client, where people build an AI assistant, then write its stop, pivot and invest statements. I’m open to partner classes, conference workshops and university teaching. Formats, the record, a clip and the enquiry form are on Work.

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Is Your Product Strategy Still Working? Three Signs It's Dead

Before you can say stop, you have to prove it's over. Three signs that hold up in a room that doesn't want to hear them.

Product Strategy · 3 min read

Survival Metrics: How Product Teams Know When to Stop

Stop, pivot, invest, written down before the work starts. Then saying stop is just reading back what you agreed.

Survival Metrics · 4 min read

Secrecy Culture vs Privacy Culture: Why It Matters for Product Teams

Nobody's hiding anything. They just learned what's safe to say. That's the difference between privacy and secrecy.

Clarity · 4 min read

Five Deadly Sins of Product Strategy (And How to Spot Them)

Your product strategy is probably committing at least one of these sins right now. Maybe all five. That's not an insult — it's a pattern. After working with dozens of product organizations, I've seen the same five strategic failures show up everywhere. They're

Clarity · 3 min read

Bias in PM Interviews: Why Hiring in Product Is Broken

"Describe a coffee cup." That's not a hypothetical. That was the opening question in an actual product management interview. The interviewer sat back, crossed their arms, and waited while the candidate tried to figure out what the "right" answer was. There isn't

Cognitive Bias · 4 min read

Product Discovery: Finding the Question That Actually Matters

Ask the hard questions before building—this guide helps PMs avoid unnecessary work and stay focused on what matters most.

Clarity · 4 min read

The Questions Product Managers Should Actually Be Asking

Asking questions is vital—until it stalls progress. Learn how to focus inquiry to drive learning without blocking momentum.

Clarity · 3 min read

Your Agile Team Is Running a Feature Factory (And Calling It Agile)

Agile isn’t a checklist—it’s a mindset. Avoid rigidity traps and rediscover how to adapt, learn, and deliver with flexibility

Agile Product Management · 4 min read

What Does a Product Manager Actually Do?

Wondering what a PM actually does? Explore the strategic, storytelling, and execution roles that define modern product management.

Clarity · 3 min read

Why Product Projections Fail (And What to Do Instead)

Forecasts fail when based on guesswork. Learn how to use scenario and survival metrics for smarter, realistic planning.

Empowerment · 4 min read

How to Actually Interview Product Managers

Hiring a PM? Learn structured, insight‑driven interview methods to identify candidates who truly think, communicate, and lead.

Cognitive Bias · 5 min read

The Product Story: Why Most PMs Can't Explain What They Do

Discover which product story PMs should tell to align stakeholders, frame decisions, and lead through ambiguity with clarity.

Clarity · 4 min read

Better Case Studies for Better Products

Frame case studies that reveal true product insights—not just outcomes—to improve internal decisions and team alignment.

Empowerment · 4 min read

Accuracy vs Precision: Why Your Product Metrics Are Lying to You

Precision and accuracy may seem like the same thing, but understanding the distinction between them will let you level up your product management skills.

Clarity · 4 min read

Product Calculus: Why Linear Thinking Breaks Product Strategy

Because the world moves so fast, product management is seldom a linear process. We can’t afford to let our thought processes be linear, either. Welcome to product calculus.

Deep Dive · 4 min read

Good Product Strategy Makes Every Decision Easier

Discover how clear product strategy simplifies decisions, empowers teams, and prevents wasted cycles—so your team moves with confidence.

Clarity · 4 min read

When Did You Last Talk to Your Customers?

Yes, I’m asking you. When was the last time you picked up the phone and have a conversation with your customers?

Clarity · 3 min read

Make Your Product Research Actually Matter

Learn how to turn research into influence so insights don’t sit in decks—but change what your team builds

Empowerment · 5 min read

How Great Product Managers Leverage Cognitive Bias

Discover how top PMs ethically leverage cognitive bias to influence better product decisions and user engagement.

Cognitive Bias · 3 min read

Customer Abdication: When Listening to Users Destroys Your Product

A game studio I worked with decided to let their users vote on what to build next. They built a beautiful feature-voting board. Customers ranked their requests. The product team built the top-voted features every quarter. The community loved it. The product team felt aligned. For about six

Clarity · 4 min read

Why You Should Exchange Your Epics for Initiatives

Your team has epics. Dozens of them, probably. Big, vague containers with names like "Improve Onboarding" or "Enterprise Readiness" or "Performance Improvements." They sit in your project management tool, accumulating stories like a junk drawer accumulates batteries. Nobody knows when they're done.

Agile Product Management · 5 min read