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.

October 31, 2025 • 📖 8 min read • Terry Chen

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.

October 26, 2025 • 📖 5 min read • Terry Chen

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.

August 29, 2025 • 📖 10 min read • Terry Chen

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.

July 12, 2025 • 📖 6 min read • Terry Chen

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.

June 16, 2025 • 📖 3 min read • Terry Chen

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.

May 14, 2025 • 📖 3 min read • Terry Chen

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.

May 12, 2025 • 📖 7 min read • Terry Chen

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.

May 8, 2025 • 📖 3 min read • Terry Chen

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.

April 19, 2025 • 📖 9 min read • Terry Chen'

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.

April 1, 2025 • 📖 6 min read • Terry Chen