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Strategy6 steps

Breadth-Then-Depth Platform Strategy

Go wide to discover your niche, then put all your wood behind the few arrows that lift the rest

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Productivity5 steps

Celebrate Adoption, Not Shipping

Replace hours and feature counts with customer-adoption outcomes teams can actually steer toward

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Productivity4 steps

Draft-First LLM Augmentation

Never ask the model to do your job — write your version first, then have it improve it.

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Communication6 steps

Energy-Aligned Writing

Write only what energises you, only what overlaps your job, and publish nearly all of it.

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Innovation4 steps

Fake the AI Before You Build It

Never train a model for an MVP — prototype the AI's output and test demand first.

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Leadership5 steps

Handbook-as-Code

Treat how the company operates as a versioned repo anyone can submit a merge request against

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Productivity5 steps

Imperfect Metrics as Education

Report an imperfect engineering metric on purpose, then use every question about it to educate upward.

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Mindset4 steps

Mission-Over-Minutiae Opportunity Choice

Choose your next big move by passion, mission, and team — not by optimizing every minor variable.

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Strategy4 steps

Northstar Problem Commitment

Pick one foundational building-block problem and commit years to it, not a scatter of trendy ones.

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Innovation4 steps

Objective-Data Alignment Test

Before betting on an AI capability, check that your training data is the same shape as your desired output.

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Innovation4 steps

Physical-System Reality Check

For anything embodied, budget for three things — a brain, a body, and real application scenarios.

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Marketing3 steps

Product-Led SEO

Treat SEO as a product you build for the search user, not content you optimize for a keyword.

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Marketing4 steps

Programmatic vs Editorial Decision Rule

Go programmatic only where scale meets a real use case — otherwise you scale nothing.

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Innovation6 steps

Right Model for the Right Use Case

Route each AI feature to a model chosen for that job, not one popular LLM stretched over everything

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Marketing4 steps

SEO Conversion-Metric Rigor

Rankings and traffic are not results. Hold SEO to the same efficiency standard as paid.

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Communication5 steps

Short Toes

Engineer feedback so it lands on the work, never the person — the async collaboration protocol

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Strategy5 steps

Stocks-and-Flows Pipeline Diagnosis

Model any org process as stocks and flows, then find where reality disagrees with the model.

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Marketing11 steps

The 11 Zero-Day Marketing Exploits

Eleven recurring meta-patterns for engineering an unfair go-to-market advantage.

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Influence4 steps

The Adjacent-Precedent De-Risk Pitch

Win leadership buy-in for a big AI bet by anchoring it to a past bet that already worked.

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Self-Mastery5 steps

The AI PM Upskilling Path

Learn the fundamentals, shadow a research scientist an hour a week, and build one model end to end.

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Marketing5 steps

The Attributed Influencer Launch Sequence

Stagger tracked influencer shares over days, then weaponize the leaderboard.

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Strategy5 steps

The Boring Engineering Strategy

Write the strategy down, get the diagnosis honest, then constrain options so energy goes to what matters.

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Leadership5 steps

The Deep Dive PM Interview

Make candidates write real async requirements and defend them — a two-way test for remote PM fit

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Leadership4 steps

The Four Challenges of AI Product Management

Uncertainty, pivots, data scarcity and a broken promo path — the four taxes of the AI PM role.

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Marketing3 steps

The Funnel-Position Defense Against AI Overviews

AI answers eat top-of-funnel search. Move your SEO to where intent and conversion live.

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Strategy4 steps

The Golden Recipe of Modern AI

Every AI breakthrough sits on three legs: big data, the right neural architecture, and enough compute.

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Leadership4 steps

The Honest-Applicable-Reversible Values Test

Three tests that separate values which drive decisions from values that just describe your self-image.

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Mindset5 steps

The 'Just Evil Enough' Ethics Test

An Occam's-razor line between subversive-and-clever and actually evil.

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Strategy4 steps

The Model Launch Bar

With probabilistic products, the PM — not the scientist — decides what accuracy is good enough to ship.

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Marketing3 steps

The Recon Canvas

An 18-square grid for scanning product, medium, and market for subversive openings.

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Leadership5 steps

The Remote-First Operating Stack

Five mechanisms that make an all-remote company across 60+ countries actually work

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Strategy3 steps

The SEO Go/No-Go Investment Test

SEO is not free. Price it fully, then compare it against every other growth channel.

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Leadership5 steps

The Shared-Fate EM/PM Pair

Give the eng manager and PM the same performance rating, and make them understand before they argue.

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Strategy4 steps

The Shiny Object Trap (Problem-First AI)

A regular PM ships the right product; an AI PM solves the right problem.

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Innovation3 steps

The Subversive Mindset (System Awareness → Novelty → Disagreeability)

Get a system to behave in a way its creators didn't intend, in three learnable steps.

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Leadership5 steps

The Transparency Ramp

Default everything to public except three named exceptions, then ramp until it feels uncomfortable

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Marketing4 steps

Top-Down TAM SEO Forecast

Forecast SEO from market size down, not from keyword-tool volumes up.

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Entrepreneurship6 steps

Treat Your Course Like a Product

Hypothesise the audience, interview them, iterate the ICP, and run three weeks — not one.

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