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Ideas, worked through in public.

AI product manager and computer engineer in Vancouver, with more than a decade of experience building and shaping technology products.

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Adapted from LinkedIn

AI-First Work Requires Organizational Redesign

The durable advantage will come from redesigning workflows, roles, and incentives around AI—not simply adding tools to existing processes.

  • future of work
  • organizational design
  • AI strategy
Adapted from LinkedIn

Where Specialized Decision Models May Beat General LLMs

A small customer-conversation evaluation suggests focused decision models may offer a useful cost and latency advantage for narrow classification tasks.

  • AI evaluation
  • conversational AI
  • product experiments
Adapted from LinkedIn

Direct AI with Positive Instructions

Clear targets usually guide a language model better than a context window filled with the behaviours it should avoid.

  • AI
  • prompting
  • productivity

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Story God

A four-player Odyssey played entirely through email, with each new game personally approved before invitations are sent.

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Working method

Write to understand. Prototype to learn. Release what is useful.

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