Pretensions
Articles on product strategy, technology, and organisational thinking.
Some may be opinionated.
Some may be AI-adjacent, because some bandwagons just have to be joined.
Some were previously published on LinkedIn.
AI
Epistemic Honesty, or When Claude Code lied, doubled down on the lie, and only fessed up under sustained pressure
Claude Code was (probably) solving the most recent AdventOfCode ‘25 puzzles, but was (probably) remembering the solutions to the AoC ‘23 puzzles from its training data. The way it played out was very much like being caught in a lie.
Product Strategy
Capability-First: A Different Take On Product Strategy And Prioritisation
First identify a strategically relevant portfolio of versatile product capabilities, and only then prioritise the pieces.
Strategy
So, (you think) you have a strategy?
What is a strategy, really? A simple, usable definition based on Rumelt’s “Good Strategy Bad Strategy”, with observations on Conway’s Law, Goodhart’s Law, and more.
Thinking
How to think of an answer, to a joke, when challenged
walking helps, and so does talking; avoid getting stuck in a rut