Practical writing for product leaders and boutique advisors – on deciding what to build, answering the hard questions, and running a sharper practice.
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Saying yes to one extra project a quarter can slow every project you run. The math of overloaded portfolios, and what to do about it.
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Industry knowledge helps, but it isn't what fixes a stuck team. The skill that does is the craft of leading the work, and the research backs it.
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Leadership escalations are the most common reason product priorities change, and most of the panic reverses within days. A leader's job is to absorb it.
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When a funnel loses most of its users, the cause is usually the whole journey, not one broken step. Two checkout fixes, and where friction should go.
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AI now touches 43.6% of professional services projects, but few firms turn the saved time into revenue. For an advisor who bills hours, that gap is structural.
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Postwright 0.4.1 sends your newsletter through Kit or Mailchimp, to the list you already have there, and still waits for your blog post to go live.
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A team that stops pushing back on product's tickets isn't aligned. It has gone quiet, and the people who could tell you why the metrics won't move stopped
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Postwright 0.4.0 adds Bluesky, Mastodon, X, WordPress, Ghost and more. Companion posts and cross-posts go out only after your blog post is live.
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Snap's first product manager says growth almost always comes from the core. Before you bet on a new market, run the core test first.
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A product leader's read of FERPA, school data agreements and state law, and why the rules shaped the data model before anyone designed a screen.
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A well-received deck isn't the same as analysis that landed. For boutique advisors, the real signal is the most skeptical person in the room.
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A direction announced to a team gets compliance. One the team helped build gets commitment. How to lead people to a change instead of announcing it.
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Most product leaders default to deciding everything themselves. It works at launch, then it makes them the bottleneck. Here's what to do instead.
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Postwright 0.3.2 edits raw talking-head video for you, cutting false starts, retakes and long pauses, then waits for one review in the app or on Telegram.
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Mixpanel didn't fix churn by adding features. It shut down two products, put engineering back on its core, and retention went from 50% to 85%.
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Teams that get punished for stopping a project stop raising the alarm early. How you end a failed bet shapes whether anyone flags the next one.
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A new direction tells a team what to build, not when it'll ship. A date pinned to a theme is a cheap yes. Here's what to ask for instead.
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At Adaptavist, documentation went from a top-five reason customers cancelled to a top-five reason they bought. No new features required.
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Half of software operators say fewer than a quarter of customers use the AI they built. Building got cheap. Building the wrong thing didn't.
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Perdue validates platform bets with full rigor and runs trend bets in a single batch. Most software teams use one speed for every bet.
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A security scan of Postwright 0.3.0 found 46 issues in its libraries. 0.3.1 upgrades them one at a time, each tested on the real installer.
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