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Mindset4 steps

Agency Over Title: The Force-Multiplier Mindset

Ignore role boundaries — use AI tools to execute your own ideas end to end

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Leadership4 steps

Barrels-and-Ammunition Team Design

Staff each team from the gap, not from a fixed PM/EM/designer template

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Strategy4 steps

Build Only Where You Can Be Best (Model Sourcing)

Build in-house only where your unique data or position lets you beat the frontier; otherwise buy

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Innovation4 steps

Cannibalize Your Own Product Every 6-12 Months

Make your current product look silly on a fixed cadence instead of only shipping what users ask for

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Productivity3 steps

Context Loading (Additional Information)

Front-load all relevant task information — and put it at the top for caching

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Innovation4 steps

Continuous Calibration, Continuous Development (CCCD)

A CI/CD-style loop for non-deterministic AI: scope, evaluate, deploy, then calibrate against surprises.

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Innovation3 steps

Ensembling (Mixture of Reasoning Experts)

Solve the same problem several ways and take the most common answer

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Communication4 steps

Evals as Articulating Success

An eval is just a clear spec of ideal behavior — the shared language of AI product work

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Strategy3 steps

Evals-Plus-Production-Monitoring Dual Feedback Loop

Reject the false dichotomy: evals catch what you know, production monitoring catches what you don't.

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Productivity3 steps

Few-Shot Prompting

Show the model examples of what good looks like instead of describing it

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Productivity4 steps

Hills-and-Valleys: Getting Value From Probabilistic AI Tools

Be patient and explicit, start small, and learn where the model is strong vs weak

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Entrepreneurship4 steps

Irrationally Optimistic, Uncompromisingly Realistic

Push hard toward a future you believe in while killing your own hypotheses as data arrives

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Productivity3 steps

Prompt Decomposition

Make the model list the sub-problems first, then solve each before the whole

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Strategy5 steps

Prompt Injection Defense Stack

Stop trying to fix injection with prompts and guardrails — mitigate at the model level

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Strategy5 steps

Run Toward the Hard Use Cases

Don't disable high-stakes uses to avoid downside — engineer them to be great

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Productivity3 steps

Self-Criticism Loop

Get the model to critique its own answer, then implement its own critique

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Innovation5 steps

Ship-to-Learn: The Emergent-Product Loop

When product properties are emergent, launching is how you discover them

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Innovation3 steps

The Agency-Control Autonomy Ladder

Ship AI in graduated versions, trading human control for machine agency only as trust is earned.

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Leadership3 steps

The AI Success Triangle

Successful AI adoption is a people problem first: great leaders, good culture, and technical progress.

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Leadership4 steps

The Dehydrated Company Hiring Model

Only hire when a function is underwater, so headcount forces ruthless prioritization

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Leadership4 steps

The Maximally Accelerated Question

A forcing question that separates critical path from what can wait

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Productivity5 steps

Two-Mode Prioritization for AI Products

Prioritize backward from model magic AND forward from customer needs

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