Essays
Long thoughts and short notes on building products, leading teams, and the craft in between — plus dispatches from building Supsindex in the open.
Feature-list roadmaps over-promise outputs and lock teams into a solution before they understand the problem. Here is the case for a problem-and-outcome roadmap, how to build one with now-next-later, and how to sell it to stakeholders who want dates and features.
Per-seat pricing measured logins. AI does the work without them — so the better your product, the less you earn. Why how you charge is now a product decision.
You can't write a spec for a system that never behaves the same way twice. The PRD is dead for AI products. The new core PM artifact is the eval — a graded test set that defines 'good' with a number.
MIT found 95% of enterprise AI pilots deliver no measurable ROI. Here's why AI pilots fail — and the unglamorous things the 5% that work do differently.
AI is automating the PM's old job description. In 2026 the product manager role is splitting into two — and the riskiest place to stand is the middle.
Most software features are rarely or never used. Here's what the feature adoption data really says — and how to ship less, cut more, and build what sticks.
Vibe coding made shipping effortless. Now the maintenance bill is arriving — and it's landing on product teams. Here's what the reckoning means, and how to get ahead of it.
Kasra Vaziri