2026

March

Delegating Ambiguity: Human–Computer Interaction in the Age of Personal Agents

As interaction shifts from Human→Tool to Human→Agent→Tool, complexity becomes an affordance—but only if we design for reasoning transfer, progressive visibility, and calibrated trust.

When to Use MCPs vs Skills for Agents

A practical comparison of Skills and MCPs for modern agent workflows, with implications for OpenClaw-style systems and CrowdListen product design.

The Agent Economy: Tokens as Bandwidth, Apps for Agents

A reasoned view of the agent economy: what is changing, where agent-mediated software is headed, and what product teams should build for next.

Thoughts on Creating This Blog

A working operating memo on archives vs. versioning, evidence-based iteration, and how to keep writing useful instead of performative.

February

Agentic Engineering: How One Developer Ships Like a Team

I spent a day researching how Peter Steinberger ships hundreds of commits a day alone. What I found forced me to confront something uncomfortable: I've been using AI agents wrong the whole time.

I Don't Understand How Crypto Is Valued. Period.

Lost money. Still don't understand how it's priced. That's the whole post.

Running a 1-Person Billion Dollar Company: The AI Stack That Makes It Possible

The complete toolkit for building a billion-dollar company with a team of one. How AI agents handle research, coding, operations, and marketing while you focus on vision.

The Real-Time Feedback Layer: How Crowdlisten Closes the Loop Between Builders and Audiences

Products are conversations, not launches. Crowdlisten is evolving from insight extraction into a real-time feedback layer that connects what builders ship with how audiences actually respond, creating continuous learning loops that compound over time …...

January

Feature Extraction & Multimodal Content Understanding

Fine-grained social listening for understanding crowd conversations: a framework for turning fragmented, high-volume social discussion into weighted signal and agent-ready product action.

2025

December

Building Has Become Easier — How Do We Fix Distribution?

Notes from working with vibe-coded builders: shipping is fast, distribution is hard, and founder-led workflows are becoming the operating layer between product capability, PRD clarity, and adoption.

November

The Battle for Search: Defining the 10x Infrastructure Layer for an Agentic Future

Analyzing the competitive landscape and market opportunity for AI-native search infrastructure as we transition from human-centric to agent-centric web consumption.

The Closing Window Frame of AI Applications

Reflections on timing, momentum, and the urgency of positioning in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. From early optimism to the reality of commercialization challenges.

Google Learn About - Interest Directed, AI Aided Learning

Google's Learn About reframes both search and chat as an explore-first learning loop, lowering the cost of asking good questions while managing cognitive load with structured, clickable cards.

Google NotebookLM - Long Context Windows and Multimodality

Exploring Google NotebookLM's approach to long context windows and multimodal AI interactions for research and knowledge management.

The Monetization Paradox of AI

Despite heavy investment in AI, a core challenge remains: turning its outsized promise into tangible, monetizable value for users.

Weighing Social Interactions: Reconstructing Meaning from Large Multi-modal Datasets

Technical analysis of AI-powered search systems and topic modeling approaches, exploring semantic retrieval, embedding spaces, and the challenges of modern web crawling.

Learnings from Every on Building an AI-Native Startup

How Every built a million-dollar AI business with just 15 people by embracing AI-first operations. Their engineers write virtually zero code while publishing daily newsletters, shipping products, and running consulting—the most radical example of …...

Preparing for Associate Product Manager Interviews: A Comprehensive Guide

Everything you need to know to ace your APM interviews at top tech companies. Covers behavioral questions, product sense, technical skills, and strategic thinking frameworks.

October

The Best Practices Lie: On Dealing with Ambiguity

The methodologies that get you into elite institutions—optimized for speed and pattern recognition—become liabilities when facing the genuine ambiguity of startups and real-world problems.

Understanding Xiaomi: IP Risk & Starting Again

Understanding Xiaomi's evolution from smartphone maker to comprehensive technology ecosystem, with focus on electric vehicle ambitions and IoT infrastructure. Investment analysis of Xiaomi's diversification strategy.

From Indexing to Understanding

Discovery is moving from static data retrieval toward systems that understand why a user is searching, not just what they type. The next generation of search experiences must merge precise recall with adaptive reasoning.

When Knowledge Becomes Fluid: How AI Transforms Learning

Exploring how generative AI transforms static knowledge into dynamic, adaptive learning experiences. From fixed formats to fluid, contextual understanding that reshapes education and content consumption.

Understanding Google: A Primer

Understanding the key products that made Google the tech giant today, with a deepdive on new AI features. Exploring Google's evolution from search to AI-powered ecosystem and investment implications.

Why Figma Wins (In the AI Era Too)

How Figma's platform advantages position it to dominate AI-native design workflows, despite emerging competition from AI-first tools like Lovable.

September

Turning Audience Insight Into Agent-Ready Specs

CrowdListen converts raw user conversation into structured product insight and agent-ready PM specs, preserving intent from feedback signal to executable task.

August

Iterating at the Pace of AI

Two approaches to building agentic experiences: platform-first vs scenario-first. How AI coding tools enable faster prototyping, PRD clarity, and cross-functional collaboration for agent workflows.

Social Listening for Product Insight

Using AI-powered social listening to extract authentic customer insights from online discourse. Moving from product-to-market to market-to-product development through systematic analysis of community discussions that inform PRDs.

July

AI-Powered Security Data Pipelines: The Future of Enterprise Cybersecurity

Analysis of AI-powered security solutions, market trends, and investment opportunities in enterprise cybersecurity. Exploring how AI is transforming threat detection, response, and prevention in the $150B+ security market through advanced data …...

When to Sunset a Product: A Decision Framework for Entrepreneurs

A framework for deciding when to sunset products and projects. Understanding opportunity costs, sunk cost fallacy, and making difficult decisions about failing ventures. Essential guidance for startup founders and product managers.

June

Using LLMs as a Cover up for Poor Thinking

How the ease of LLM-generated content masks poor reasoning and why developing domain expertise remains crucial for meaningful innovation beyond automated productivity gains.

May

Questions as the New Bottleneck in Learning

In an age of infinite information, asking the right questions has become more valuable than finding answers. Exploring how question formulation is transforming education and knowledge acquisition in the AI era.

Why People Care What Others Think

Understanding collective intelligence and social dynamics. Why crowd psychology matters for product builders and how human need for belonging drives engagement patterns.

Content Platforms Will Become Distribution-by-Generation Systems

As generation costs collapse, distribution shifts from routing static content to generating the right content instance for each context. This post argues that future content platforms will distribute by generation, not retrieval.

April

Product Engineers and AI Multipliers

How AI is transforming product engineering teams into smaller, more efficient units. Learn why product engineers are becoming more valuable than traditional product managers in AI-first organizations.

Interesting Reads

Curated collection of compelling articles and insights on AI agents, entrepreneurship, and product development. Features analysis of breakthrough AI tools and emerging trends.

March

The Craft of Miyazaki in an AI-Generated World

Explore Hayao Miyazaki's meticulous animation process and its significance in today's AI-generated creative landscape. Learn about the value of craft in a world of automated content.

User Needs & Opportunities

Identifying real user pain points and business opportunities through conversations and online research. A collection of validated user needs that could become viable startups.

2024

December

The First Stage: A Reflection

Reflecting on 2024: lessons from founding Cogno, the importance of hands-on product development, choosing college over dropping out, and key insights for first-time founders building AI products.

October

Deciding the Right Question Is More Important Than the Answer

When problems are ambiguous, the limiting factor is often not answer quality but question quality. This piece explores why framing better questions is the real leverage point in AI-assisted thinking and product work.

September

Why Context is Everything in AI Content Generation

Why context is the critical factor in AI content quality - moving beyond single-prompt expectations to rich, contextual content generation that adapts to individual needs and cognitive patterns.

How to Work on What You Love: Career Advice from Top Entrepreneurs

Curated advice from successful entrepreneurs and thinkers on finding passion, going deep on interests, and building a meaningful career doing what you love. Insights from Patrick Collison, Paul Graham, and other successful founders.

August

Essence of Creativity: Future of Creative Work

Exploring the intersection of AI-generated content and human creativity. Analysis of creative workflows, multimodal interactions, and the future of content creation in the AI era.

Building AI That Actually Understands How Students Learn

How we built an LLM system that identifies student learning gaps and connects them with peers who've solved similar problems—scaling personalized mentorship through AI that understands the nuances of how people actually learn.

May

Multi-modal Creative Ad Generation

Development of TikTok Symphony Assistant - an AI-powered creative tool for generating ad scripts and video content. Agentic workflows and interface optimization for automated creative generation.

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