January 29, 2026
When the people-who-know aren't in the planning room
If your most experienced product, UX, and engineering leaders find out about strategy after it’s decided, you don’t have a scheduling problem — you have a power problem.
Decision-making
February 9, 2026
You cannot afford to ignore early warning signs
Early warning signs of product and organizational drift are predictable. The only question is whether you act early, or pay later to unwind avoidable decisions.
February 17, 2026
AI can get you 90% of the way to a spec in seconds
AI-generated specs don’t just save time — they frame the problem. That first frame anchors your thinking, narrows the solution space, and can quietly outsource the highest-leverage part of design.
February 27, 2026
Ambiguity is information, not a problem
Forcing uncertainty into structured requirements doesn’t remove ambiguity — it hides it. The cost shows up later as the wrong thing, built perfectly.
March 2, 2026
The one meeting that reveals coordination dysfunction
Two questions expose whether decisions are made with the right context and communicated predictably. If the answers are uncomfortable, that’s where drift begins.
March 7, 2026
The coordination tax is in every timeline
Coordination failure hides behind labels like misunderstandings and scoping issues. The cost is distributed, invisible, and always paid in timelines.
April 8, 2026
Product drift isn’t a strategy failure. It’s a coordination failure that looks like one.
When products diverge from their original intent, the problem is often blamed on strategy. In reality, it’s usually coordination failure—accumulated micro-decisions without shared context.
April 9, 2026
Why I’m building five products at once — the honest answer
Building multiple products in parallel isn’t about hustle or diversification—it’s a response to uncertainty, enabled by infrastructure, and constrained by strict kill criteria.
June 9, 2026
The product drift diagnostic: five questions I ask every new client in the first hour
A consulting diagnostic showing five early questions that reveal whether product drift is really a handoff, decision, or feedback-loop problem.