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Essays on building with AI, AI trust and visibility, and product leadership. The book has its own page.
Topics: AI Trust & Honesty · AI Architecture & Prompting · AI Search & Visibility · Product Strategy & Leadership · Personal Thoughts
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Why the “Worse” PM Job Might Be the Safer One Right Now
In a well-oiled, optimized system, Senior PM A’s decisions follow predictable patterns: Quarterly planning? Review the metrics, weigh the trade-offs, pick a path. Feature prioritization? Run it through the scoring…
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How Habits are the BEST Indicator of YOUR Personality
🚗 Your driving habits reveal more about your work personality than your resume. I just built a personality assessment that asks the REAL questions:❌ “Are you patient at work?”✅ “Do…
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Microsofts Visionary Reframing
My Visionary Reframing Custom GPT scores Satya Nadella’s memo to Microsoft employees, and points out what it could add and what it left out.
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Spec-Driven Development: AI Architectural Patterns for Success…
Vibe-coding breaks down as projects grow and context rots. Spec-driven development patterns that keep AI coding tools like Claude and Cursor on track.
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🤔 Friday Philosophy: Who Has the Greater Potential in the Age of AI?
“Mathematics” edition. Let’s say you have two people:• Person A has a master’s degree in mathematics but no access to AI.• Person B has only a basic education — but has 24/7…
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Prompt Engineering in Esperanto?
Prompt Engineering in Esperanto? Quite possibly yes! So, I gave DALL·E the same prompt in English, Esperanto, and Mandarin (written in Simplified Chinese). The Esperanto and Mandarin versions got Santa’s…
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The Matrix With Google Veo3 (Out-takes Edition)
🎬 I spent 45 minutes last night trying to recreate one of my favorite scenes from The Matrix using generative video tools — the moment where Neo knocks over the Oracle’s vase.…
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When Memory Isn’t Memory: Reconstructing Context in Conversations with AI
AI memory isn’t a perfect log. An experiment with ChatGPT on context windows, long-term memory and the hidden retrieval that pulls old context back in.
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From Prompt Engineering to the Cognitive Mesh: Mapping the Future of AI Interaction
A framework for how AI interaction evolves from prompt engineering to collaboration to coexistence, and what shifts in who drives and how value is created.
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“I Don’t Know, Walter”: Why Explicit Permissions Are Key to Building Trustworthy AI Honesty
Real AI transparency means permission to say “I don’t know.” Why labeling platform refusals and limits builds more trust than projected confidence.
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Beyond Keywords: Architecting AI Behavior with Evaluative Prompts
Prompt engineering is moving past keyword strings. How layered, evaluative prompts build integrity and ethical alignment into AI behavior.
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The “Style Guide” of Honesty: Why AI Tells the Truth the Way It Does
Training, system prompts and your own question all shape an AI’s answer. A style-guide analogy for the layers of AI honesty and which part to trust.