#strategy

OCode: Why I Built My Own Claude Code (and Why You Might Too): A few nights ago, I opened my Anthropic invoice.

Most Startups Don't Have a Growth Problem—They Have a Clarity Problem: Here's a pattern I keep seeing: A startup hits a plateau. The dashboard looks flat.

When I first noticed the flood of "This is AI-generated!" accusations on social media, I dismissed it as a passing trend.

As Waseem Alshikh, Co-founder and CTO of Writer, brilliantly put it: "If your enterprise AI 'strategy' is calling OpenAI's API...You don't have a strategy.

The best product managers have a superpower that's rarely discussed: they can spot the same underlying user need manifesting in completely different ways acr...

The most dangerous thing about startup advice isn't that it's wrong—it's that it's partially right. After years of building products and watching others do t...

The False Choice of Enterprise Software Enterprise software has long operated under a flawed assumption: that power and simplicity are mutually exclusive.

For startup founders, sales isn't just another function—it's the lifeblood of your business. Early on, founders are usually the lead salesperson, passionately...

In the relentless push to build and scale, organizations often overlook a critical piece of infrastructure: how decisions get made.

OpenAI recently rolled back a GPT-4 update due to sycophantic behavior. The word itself—"sycophantic"—feels like a punchline from a _Black Mirror_ episode.

The Promise and the Disconnect We've all experienced the letdown: an AI product failing to meet expectations, subtly or dramatically.

The End of the Traditional SOC The Security Operations Center (SOC) as we know it is living on borrowed time.

This digital fragmentation mirrors the very compartmentalization of health that holistic wellness seeks to overcome.

When I set out to build Shout, my side project for improving engineering recognition, I knew I needed a robust way to evaluate the quality of recognition mes...

In my role leading cloud security integrations, I speak with dozens of CISOs every month. Before joining the product side, I spent seven years in security op...

The Illusion of Smooth Thinking Every day, our minds process thousands of decisions, from what to eat for breakfast to how to respond to a crisis at work.

The Executive Trap I've seen it happen a dozen times: A brilliant engineer becomes CTO and suddenly decides their job is "managing the engineering organization..."

In medical school, students take the Hippocratic Oath, pledging to "first, do no harm." As product managers, we'd do well to adopt a similar mindset.

If your inbox feels like a battlefield, you're not alone. The modern email flow is a chaotic mess of promotions, business requests, events, updates, and the...

In the rapidly evolving world of cybersecurity, organizations face an overwhelming array of security tools and solutions.

The most valuable code I've ever written was messy, quick, and written in response to an immediate customer need.

The most insidious form of technical debt does not come from rushed code or tight deadlines - it comes from overly clever abstractions...

In my last post, I argued against perfectionism in startup environments. Today, I want to explore the other side of that coin: when quality really matters, a...

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." This quote, often attributed to Henry Ford, encapsulates one of the most challenge...

The Security Promise and the Reality As someone who's spent years in the trenches as a security engineer at both pre-IPO startups and public companies, I've...

Every piece of software you build comes with a hidden cost: the integration tax. It's the exponentially growing complexity of connecting with other systems,...

Remember when vertical SaaS was just about digitizing industry-specific workflows. Those days feel like ancient history.