Architecting the Agentic Future. I turn the chaos of the frontier into clear, scalable products.
Andrew Ng has been signaling this for a year. Amol Avasare recently doubled down on Lenny’s Podcast. The consensus? AI automates the low-leverage parts of the Product Management job, it amplifies the need for the higher order, more human parts of the job. I spent the last few weeks in deep dives with leaders at Google, Meta, and leading Financial Services and Healthcare. These are the people…
The history of personal productivity for people seeking high leverage out of their day is a cycle of failed attempts to automate human action without regard for taste. In today’s world, most of the Product leaders that I talk to are talking about creating a Personal OS. A force multiplier that helps them maximize their impact while minimizing the headaches of modern life. Back in the early 2000s,…
Last month, I outlined the four pillars of the current longevity stack. While that framework is useful for categorization, the real value lies in how these components integrate to solve specific clinical bottlenecks. Today, I want to look at a specific case study: cardiovascular health. The field is moving from a model of simple lipid management toward “debugging” the underlying biology and…
Last month, I outlined the four pillars driving the longevity revolution. I expected them to mature over the coming year. I didn’t expect to see three of them validated in the first three weeks of January. Recap: The Four Pillars To ground this month’s updates, let’s look at the innovation stack I outlined in December : Decoding Cellular Aging: Targeting the fundamental biology of decline (See my…
My career has been a hunt for force multipliers. I fell in love with engineering because software is the ultimate lever to scale human impact. I moved into leadership to scale that further, orchestrating teams to solve problems no individual could tackle alone. Update (January 2026): I recently published a deep dive into how these pillars are being validated by the latest moves from Abbott,…
Part 3 of the AI Exploration Series. Missed the earlier posts? Start with The Spark of an Idea or Giving the Ghost a Machine . What started as a fun AI experiment quickly became a lesson in responsibility. The “Uncleji” project, a generative AI persona designed to mimic the quirks and wisdom of a beloved uncle, showed us that moving from sandbox to production with non-deterministic AI isn’t just…
Giving the Ghost a Machine: The Art of Engineering for Creative AI Services Part 2 of the AI Exploration Series. Read Part 1: The Spark of an Idea . In our last post, we explored the spark of an idea : harnessing AI’s “hallucinations” as a feature. But a creative concept—a ghost—is ephemeral just a demo. To bring it to life and share with real users to let it interact with the world, it needs a…
The Spark of an Idea: Turning AI Hallucinations into a Product Feature The AI conversation has been dominated by a single obsession: eliminating ‘hallucinations.’ We’re told they are a bug to squash, a flaw to engineer out. But this always felt like a failure of imagination. So, I started a deliberate experiment with a different question at its core: What happens if, instead of fighting AI’s…
Context Pollution - A Natural Outcome of Poor UX I was vibing an hour deep into a session with one of today’s most advanced AI agents, trying to hammer out a new idea exploration. We were pulling in industry reports, summarizing articles, and iterating on multiple sections of the document at once. In that flow state, the AI felt like a true partner. Then suddenly, things started getting wonky. I…
“You need to be more strategic about how much you give.” Those words from my mentor hit hard as I moved from manager to leader. There I was, thinking my endless support and availability made me a great leader. Instead, I was sprinting toward burnout—and taking my team with me. Here are three transformational books that redefined how I show up every day as a leader. 1. Give and Take (Adam Grant)…
Picture this: It’s Monday morning, and your CEO wants to know when that game-changing feature will launch. Your engineering lead is talking about “technical unknowns.” Your designer needs “more discovery time.” And somewhere in your inbox, there’s a customer asking for the sixth time when they’ll see the update. Sound familiar? I’ve seen product launches implode because of vague timelines. One…
“A black box.” That was my candid assessment of Large Language Models (LLMs) for a long time. Despite my background in building neural networks, I viewed Generative AI primarily as a productivity hack—sophisticated autocomplete that was impressive, but too prone to hallucination for mission-critical enterprise applications. I went into Google’s deep learning boot camp to challenge that skepticism.…
Want to know a secret to product leadership success? Effective communication. And a key part of that? Mastering the product update. 🚀 It’s your chance to showcase progress, highlight wins, and inspire action. But it’s also an opportunity to demonstrate your leadership and communication skills, which are crucial for career growth. A well-structured product update serves as a critical instrument…
Meetings are the lifeblood of people-centered work. But most of us are not adequately trained in the practices and tools needed to manage meetings. i.e. planning, facilitation, communication, decision making, and conflict management. Part I covered how to prepare to have effective meetings. With an agenda published you now have a team of humans ready to make some decisions around a topic. So let’s…
The Problem Millions of meetings. Each Day. They’re mostly bad Each day the US “holds 55 million meetings” according to a recent Freakanomics episode on NPR. Getting together with people should be a happy and playful experience. Yet, mention the word “meeting” and watch the fun leave 55 million faces. No Meetings: Not an option The knee jerk response to bad meetings is to eliminate ALL meetings.…
Clear and effective communication remains a key challenge in the workplace. A well-written status report breaks down communication barriers and keeps your team aligned. But first, what’s in it for you? If effective communication is not reward enough, writing a weekly update also levels up your work game in three ways: Helps you focus: Reflection is a critical part of productivity. Writing a weekly…
Yes but can you show it to me on a map? Yelp recently published their annual list of the hottest places for 2017. As I mentioned in 2015 I prefer to see this list of restuarants on a map. So without further ado here are 2017’s 100 Hottest Places to eat, according to Yelp, presented on a map. For a good measure, I’ve included the 2015 and 2016 ones as well. Built with the Yelp API and Leaflet.js <–…
Part 3: Search Front End Prerequisites: Node.js; Bower So far we’ve created the search infrastructure , indexed our photos into our ElasticSearch instance and then used Kibana for intial data exploration. Now we need a simple front end to collect user input and query the back end and tie it all together by displaying the pictures that have the chosen color. Most of the AngularJS code needed is…
Part 2: Adding Photos to the Search Engine This is the second part of a three part series on how to sort through a large photo collection easily. This part covers Indexing: getting information about the images in your photo library into the search engine that we built last time. Prerequisites: Completion of Part 1; Node.js; Photos with EXIF Data incl. GPS; node-gyp and Cairo which are used by…
Motivation If you’re anything like me, which I suspect you are, over the years you’ve probably amassed a large collection of photos. With over 73,257 photos across 707 directories representing 15 years of digital photography, finding a particular photo is a challenge. While most photos have some combination of date and time or even GPS information, most people don’t spend their lives memorizing…