Product notes, takes, and field observations from shipping real things. Written for PMs who build, not those who plan.
AI didn't make me a developer. It closed the gap between thinking and making.
I used to have ideas I couldn't build. Not because they were bad. Because I didn't have the skills to make them real. That's changed.
If you're managing the product but you're not in the product, you're flying blind with a nice dashboard.
It's like being a raid leader who hasn't logged in since the last expansion. You can read the patch notes. You can study the DPS charts. But when the team wipes on a boss mechanic, you're not going to know why because you haven't felt the fight.
Data doesn't create conviction. Conviction creates the conditions where data becomes useful.
There's a version of product work that looks productive but never goes anywhere. Engine running, no rudder. Lots of noise. No direction.
If you need a complex dashboard to know whether something is working, it probably isn't.
The products that actually matter don't need a twelve-tab analytics setup to prove it. They surface signal on their own. Through behavior. Through pull that nobody had to manufacture.