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Notes from building AI products, leading teams, and working through the technical choices that come with both.

  1. Sep 2025

    Why Physical AI Teams Become Infrastructure Companies

    Product strategy for robotics must account for the data, simulation, evaluation, and compute systems that make dependable physical intelligence possible.

    Physical AI · Product Strategy · AI Infrastructure · 2 min read

  2. Apr 2024

    Go/No-Go Decisions for Machine Learning Products

    A practical decision framework for choosing whether an ML initiative has enough evidence, data, and delivery readiness to advance.

    Machine Learning · Product Management · Strategy · 2 min read

  3. Apr 2024

    Estimate ML Effort Before You Commit

    Estimate the work, risk, and likelihood of success across the full ML product lifecycle before setting expectations.

    Machine Learning · Planning · Leadership · 2 min read

  4. Apr 2024

    Evaluate the Decision, Not Just the Model

    Build an ML evaluation plan that measures the quality of the product decision and its real-world consequences.

    Machine Learning · Evaluation · Product Strategy · 2 min read

  5. Mar 2024

    Plan the Path From Prototype to Product

    Prepare an ML capability for real users by designing the integration, operations, and learning loop before release.

    Machine Learning · Product Delivery · MLOps · 2 min read

  6. Mar 2024

    Turn Data Labeling Into a Plan

    Build a labeling effort around the decisions, expertise, quality checks, and feedback loops that make annotations useful.

    Machine Learning · Data Operations · Product Strategy · 2 min read

  7. Feb 2024

    Design the Model Plan Around the Workflow

    Connect model choices to the user workflow, constraints, and delivery responsibilities that determine real product value.

    Machine Learning · Product Design · Engineering · 2 min read

  8. Feb 2024

    Audit Your Data Before You Build

    What to learn about available data before promising an ML outcome or committing to model development.

    Machine Learning · Data Strategy · Product Discovery · 2 min read

  9. Jan 2024

    Choose Machine Learning for the Right Reason

    A practical way to decide whether an ML model is the right intervention for a customer problem.

    Machine Learning · Product Strategy · Decision Making · 2 min read

  10. Jan 2024

    Define the Problem Before the Model

    How to frame an ML opportunity around a customer decision instead of an interesting technical capability.

    Machine Learning · Product Discovery · Strategy · 2 min read

  11. Jan 2024

    A Practical Guide to Starting Machine Learning Work

    A product-minded sequence for moving from a meaningful problem to a responsible machine learning investment.

    Machine Learning · Product Strategy · Leadership · 2 min read