12 notesA few minutes each
The thesis gets tested in public, one short note at a time.
Each one takes a single claim and tries to break it against something that happened. They run one spine, and each one tests a different part of it.
11 more, each testing a different part of the same case.
Read top down and you get where the case ended up. Read bottom up and you get the order it was built in, including the turns.
Note 01 is April 2026, note 12 is July 2026. Two to three minutes each.
- 11August 2026
Your compression matrix is not your team
Compression has a domain shape. Run the map per domain and the limits stop landing in the same place.
3 minRead it - 10July 2026
Agents broke the product org chart
Production got cheap. The chart we built around it stopped showing who is building the value.
2 minRead it - 09July 2026
You cannot ship AI you cannot afford
Unit economics are a build decision. Almost nobody makes it on purpose.
2 minRead it - 08July 2026
Evals are the new code review
The gate that decides whether what you built is any good moved. Most teams have not moved with it.
2 minRead it - 07July 2026
Velocity stopped meaning anything
When everyone ships fast, speed stops being the signal. What you chose to build is.
2 minRead it - 06July 2026
Hire for the PM job that exists now
The job stopped being coordination. Screen for the one who can still build.
2 minRead it - 05July 2026
Smiling exhaustion is a system bug
When one person covers what used to take five, burnout is not a mood. It is a design flaw.
2 minRead it - 04June 2026
The one-person product org, from the inside
What it is actually like to build the whole surface yourself, agents and all.
2 minRead it - 03June 2026
The model was never the constraint
The constraint was never the model. It is knowing what is worth building and whether the output holds up.
2 minRead it - 02May 2026
Engineering is the only function you can see
Eng has the metrics, so eng gets the credit. The judgment about what is worth building stays invisible.
2 minRead it - 01April 2026
The CPTO is a consequence, not a trend
Collapse product and engineering into one seat and you have not coined a title. You have revealed one.
2 minRead it
The notes take the pieces. The point of view takes the whole thing.
The whole model, on one page, with nothing to hand over.