The Full Stack Builder Ceiling
The full-stack builder is real. So is the ceiling it hits. In December 2025, LinkedIn's chief product officer Tomer Cohen went on Lenny's Podcast and announced something that should have been a bigger story than it was. LinkedIn was scrapping its associate product...
Stop asking your team to ‘Use AI’. Instead, fix broken workflows
Most companies are now past the point of wondering whether AI matters. The more useful question is what, exactly, they are supposed to do with it. That sounds obvious, but it is where a lot of teams are currently getting stuck. They have given people access to...
Big Tech’s Health AI Land Grab: A CPO’s Assessment
Something is shifting in healthcare that every product leader should be paying attention to. Over the past 18 months, every major technology company has made aggressive moves into health AI. Not the gentle, partnership-driven approach we saw in the 2010s. This is a...
From the iPhone to Ferrari: The Limits of Touch
When the iPhone first launched, I wasn’t immediately sold. Multitouch was elegant, yes - but elegance isn’t enough. It took until the iPhone 3GS for Apple to combine interaction innovation with real-world utility: performance, 3G, and a feature set that justified...
The Builder PM: Why Getting Your Hands Dirty Matters More Than Ever
There's a particular kind of product manager I've come to value above all others. They're not the ones with the most polished presentations or the most impressive frameworks. They're the ones who can look at an ambiguous problem and just start building something....
Product Explainability: How AI Will Discover Your Product Before Your Customers Do
The landscape of product discovery is shifting beneath our feet. While companies pour resources into SEO, social media marketing, and traditional advertising, a quiet revolution is taking place: AI systems are becoming the first customers to "meet" your product. The...
ChatGPT Health: The Double-Edged Scalpel of AI-Powered Healthcare
In my previous article on guardrails, I argued that AI failure modes map directly to product failure modes. Now, with OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT Health in January 2026, we're witnessing this principle play out in the highest-stakes arena imaginable: human health. Over...
Speaking Business: The New Currency for Product Influence
I've been thinking about how product management has changed over the past few years. Not the tools or the methodologies as those shift all the time, but the fundamental expectations of the role. The clearest signal I've seen is in roadmap reviews. Five years ago, you...
Judgment Over Velocity: Why Product Leadership Means Knowing When to Say No
Every product leader I know is feeling the same pressure right now: do more, move faster, ship quicker. AI tools promise to accelerate everything: research, prototyping, analysis. And they do. But here's the uncomfortable truth we need to talk about in 2026: AI is...
Guardrails: Governing AI in Product Discovery
AI has always meant 'Augmented Intelligence' to me since I saw Kasparov at Web Summit years ago when he coined the term. This still applies today - AI can facilitate massive efficiencies for the following: Summarising interviews, clustering feedback, drafting a PRD,...