AI sucks, long live AI! In this brand new world, we now need to optimize for AI with a firm understanding of it's limitations, especially the human components. I began my entry into this new startup with the learning from the past in how to best organize teams, work with people and glean non-obvious learnings from user interviews, Now many of those people I work with are using AI with intermittent scrutiny, including myself. Therein lies the rub, where before we needed to eng

On the importance of feedback and our internal receptiveness to it. Yesterday I received some negative feedback on the product stories I was writing and it was a treasure. For weeks I had been asking for feedback and didn't receive any. I had been writing super detailed (and rather low trust) stories. I would write up the core value propositions (most of the time anyway), po in a few screenshots and let my LLM, instructed to write in the pattern I chose, do the rest. At first

What do you do when your CEO get's emotionally hijacked? That's the question and the lesson for the day. It started as a peaceful day,...

With all of the challenges recently my emotional state has been a lot less stable than usual and has started impacting my work. As it's...

Today I learned that I can get comfortable very quickly. I've always felt that this is actually my super power and lately it's been...

So much to unpack over the past few days...I really should have written an entry earlier. This weekend we dropped my son off to...

Ok, so I've been able to to an entry every other day or so, and that still makes me feel good :), changing these titles so each entry...

Today felt draining and I'm still working on the learning part . Last night I felt energized. After months (felt far too long) I finally...

I began this experiment on a Friday and already I've skipped the weekend. I did still learn a few things this weekend but somehow I...

Today I begin my experiment. The experiment is simple, I'm going to spend 10 -15 minutes 5 of 7 days a week writing something I learned...