I write about product, sales, marketing, philosophy, and personal epiphanies.
they taught her to walkin straight lines,chin down, voice tucked in,feet careful not to leave a mark. and for a while,she did.she listened.to advice disguised as love,to correction disguised as care. even when the ground felt borrowed.even when the air smelled like someone else’s story.she kept walking,trying to belong to a mapdrawn by someone who Continue reading Untamed
Every product pitch, every investor deck, every LinkedIn post chants the same thing. Get stuff done faster, become more efficient, automate, optimize, and accelerate with AI. And I get it. I really do. I build. I design. I use these tools every day. But lately, a question keeps nagging at me, one I can t seem Continue reading The quiet cost of the AI rush
The longer I’ve been in product, the more I realize that intuition doesn’t just come from data. It comes from living life with your eyes open. We often think of intuition as that voice that tells you to pause: “Something feels off,” “Not yet,” “Let’s wait.” And sometimes, that’s exactly what it is. It’s restraint. Continue reading What nobody tells you about product intuition
I’ve stopped believing that alignment means everyone agrees. Most of the time, it just means everyone thinks they understood the same thing. In product conversations, we love to say, “Let’s get aligned.” It sounds mature. Kinda professional as well. But what we’re really saying is, “Let’s make sure we’re not talking about completely different things.” Continue reading Alignment sounds nice, but…
Negative self talk is sneaky. It slips in quietly, almost unnoticeable, until suddenly it’s running the show. You’re about to try something new and there it is, whispering: “You’re not good enough,” or “People are going to judge you.” And the thing is, it doesn’t just appear out of thin air. It’s built over years. Continue reading The weight of negative self talk
There’s this pattern that shows up at work for so many of us: the craving to be liked. Not just respected for the work, but really liked—seen as smart, capable, and worth celebrating. And the moment someone seems curt or doesn’t give that signal, the mind runs wild. “Do they think I’m not good enough? Continue reading The trap of wanting to be liked
some days i care too much.other days, not at all.i swing between urgency and numbness,between needing to be seenand wanting to disappear. i attach myselfto whatever moves,a reaction, a message,a silence that feels louder than it should.and i call it feeling.i call it being alive. but the truth is,i’m scattered.and i know it. i keep Continue reading In the absence of a center
I hate how the word stress is thrown around so casually these days. It s become a filler word for everything. People use it when they re impatient, angry, restless, or afraid. But stress isn t just a fleeting emotion or a surface-level reaction. It s deeper than that. And honestly, it s hard to put into words. That s the Continue reading On stress
We all love getting positive feedback. The kind that says our work matters and that we re making a difference. And let s be honest, sometimes, that s all we want. But there s another kind of feedback. The kind that shakes you up and makes you pause and think, Wait, but I thought I was already good at Continue reading Why the best feedback doesn’t feel good at first
When the wave of AI hit the internet, I was largely unaware of it. I was preoccupied with other things and dismissed it as just another hype cycle in the tech world. A few months after paying close attention, I realized what I had overlooked. The realization? AI s transformative potential AI can not only help Continue reading The other side of the AI wave: What I discovered