Essays on consumer credit, agentic payments, fintech, and the operating mechanics of product management. One published book. One more on the way.
Most of the public conversation about AI agents and commerce is about checkout flows. Most of it is wrong. The interesting problem is one layer down, and almost nobody outside the payments industry is thinking about it. Notes from building Grantex.
Read the essay →A look at how AI-driven prototyping workflows ("vibe coding") accelerated stakeholder feedback and reduced time to validated decisions across a Fortune 200 product org.
Read on Forefront ↗Product Ops takes on data, reporting, and process work — freeing PMs to focus on vision and strategy. Why getting this balance right is essential to staying ahead.
Read on Forefront ↗How to take an Agile practice that's working at team scale and apply Lean principles to make it work at org scale — without losing the speed that made Agile valuable in the first place.
Read on Forefront ↗The most common framework mistake in mid-size product orgs is confusing OKRs and KPIs. A practical guide to when to use which, and why the distinction matters more than most teams realize.
Read on Forefront ↗Most MVPs die not because the idea is bad but because scope creep, stakeholder pressure, and ambiguous success criteria erode them before launch. How to defend the M in MVP.
Read on Forefront ↗The Value Prop Canvas is usually treated as a discovery tool. It's actually a roadmap-building tool. How to use it to ladder customer pain to shipped features.
Read on Forefront ↗A walkthrough of how to use a Lean Canvas to define and defend the scope of an MVP — not as a one-time exercise, but as a living artifact your team can reference throughout delivery.
Read on Forefront ↗A practical starter set of frameworks, tools, and decisions for teams launching an ecommerce product — from payment processing choices to inventory ops.
Read on Forefront ↗Codeless and low-code tools are real, useful, and oversold. What they do well, what they don't, and the kinds of products where they're actually the right answer.
Read on Forefront ↗The CEO's job and the product manager's job rhyme more than people admit. A look at why companies are increasingly picking PMs for the corner office — and where it goes wrong.
Read on Forefront ↗A 2023 read on where generative AI was about to change the product design discipline — what aged well, what aged badly, and the underlying shifts that proved durable.
Read on Forefront ↗The MCU is, structurally, the most successful product roadmap in entertainment history. What product leaders can learn from how Kevin Feige sequenced 23 films into one continuous release plan.
Read on Forefront ↗On what happens when product teams lose ownership of the problems they were hired to solve — and what founders, executives, and PMs can do before the team breaks for good. KDP. ISBN 979-8320767048. Available on Amazon.
A cultural history of consumer borrowing in America. From installment plans to credit cards to the BNPL button at checkout. The argument: lending didn't just get easier, it got harder to recognize as lending. Manuscript in progress.