Medium2024agentsaifuture of work
AI Agents and the Future of Work: A Pixar-Inspired Journey
What product managers can learn about AI agents from how Pixar runs a film team.
10 essays · originally on Medium
Medium Archive
Every essay I've published on Medium, cross-posted here so the full body of work lives in one place. Read each piece on falkster, or jump straight to the original on Medium.
Medium2024discoveryresearchsurvivorship bias
How to Avoid Survivorship Bias in Product Management
Lessons from the British bomber study, applied to PM customer interviews and analytics.
Medium2024agentsaiworkflows
Many AI Agents Are Actually Workflows or Automations in Disguise
How to tell agents from workflows from cron jobs, and why it matters for what you ship.
Medium2024ai strategyleadershipai
The AI Revolution: Faster, Deeper, and More Disruptive
Why the current AI shift compounds faster than the Industrial Revolution did.
Medium2024pmproduct managementevolution
The Evolution of Product Management Over the Last 20 Years
From feature factories to outcome teams to Product Builders, three eras in one chart.
Medium2024careersproduct engineerbuilder
The Rise of the AI Product Engineer
End-to-end ownership replaces handoff layers, and a new title shows up on org charts.
Medium2024pricingsaasservice-as-software
From SaaS to Service-as-Software
What changes inside the product when the software does the work, not the user.
Medium2023executionengineeringteam
Is Mob Programming the Right Approach for Your Team?
When mob and pair programming work, when they don't, and how to read the trade-offs.
Medium2023datastrategyprivacy
When Your Data Becomes the Product
The hidden cost of "free" services and what it implies for AI-era product strategy.
Medium2023discoveryprototypinginterviews
Why Users Don't Know What They Want Until You Show Them
Visionary product development, when prototypes beat interviews, and how to know the difference.
New essays land on falkster first.
The Medium archive is the back-catalog. Newer thinking on AI-era product management, agent fleets, and the Product Builder role ships on falkster, then sometimes flows out to Medium.