Thoughts
Reading, writing, and what I'm chewing on
The ProductOps series, written in public one idea a week, and the books on my nightstand.
Writing
The ProductOps series
Next up · 18 posts in all
- 00The status meeting is the reportcoming soon
- 01Judgment doesn't scale by itselfcoming soon
- 02Autonomy or alignment is a false choicecoming soon
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Wave 1 · Leaders first
- 00The status meeting is the reportcoming soon
- 01Judgment doesn't scale by itselfcoming soon
- 02Autonomy or alignment is a false choicecoming soon
Wave 2 · What breaks
- 03The product has a manager and no operatorcoming soon
- 04A dashboard is not a loopcoming soon
- 05The promise ends at approvalcoming soon
Wave 3 · Why now
- 06Dollars move once a year. Focus moves every week.coming soon
Wave 4 · What it stands on
- 07Everything here stands on older ideascoming soon
Wave 5 · The model
- 08ProductOps on one pagecoming soon
- 09Every judgment call names its outcomecoming soon
- 10Weighting is leadership, written downcoming soon
- 11Outcomes are weighted. Guardrails are not.coming soon
- 12Machines flag. People respond.coming soon
- 13A shipped project isn't a finished betcoming soon
Wave 6 · The owner
- 14What the owner controls, and what they explaincoming soon
Wave 7 · AI inside
- 15AI proposes. Leaders decide. Every decision teaches the system.coming soon
- 16Agents earn autonomy the way people earn trustcoming soon
Wave 8 · The horizon
- 17What I don't know yetcoming soon
Reading
On the shelf
Shōgun · James Clavell
★★★★☆Finished Jul 2026
- Shōgun · James Clavell★★★★ Jul 2026
- With the Old Breed · Eugene B. Sledge★★★★★ May 2026
- Band of Brothers · Stephen E. Ambrose★★★★★ Apr 2026
- The Fool of New York City · Michael D. O'Brien★★★★ Mar 2026
- The Correspondent · Virginia Evans★★★★★ Feb 2026
- Ordinary Grace · William Kent Krueger★★★★ Feb 2026
- 11/22/63 · Stephen King★★★★ Feb 2026
- James · Percival Everett★★★★ Sep 2025
- The Chronicles of Narnia · C.S. Lewis★★★★★ Jun 2025
- Lonesome Dove · Larry McMurtry★★★★★ Jun 2025
- The Wingfeather Saga · Andrew Peterson★★★★★ Jun 2025
- Theo of Golden · Allen Levi★★★★★ Feb 2025
- The Art of Action · Stephen Bungay★★★★★ Jun 2024
- The Creative Act · Rick Rubin★★★★ Jan 2024
- The Wright Brothers · David McCullough★★★★★ Dec 2023
- Undaunted Courage · Stephen E. Ambrose★★★★★ Dec 2023