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The product builder paradox
The product builder paradox: role collapse works where the customer speaks your language and the solution space is mature. Elsewhere, judgment fragments back.
readOlder than the tool, earlier than the product
In April 2026, every major AI-coding provider introduced metered overage pricing inside the same window. The pattern is three centuries old. What is new is that the margin capture is arriving before most of the value even arrived.
readSuggestions for aspiring Tech PMs
Navigating the job market and mastering the craft of product management can be challenging, especially for those aspiring to become Product Managers . This article reflects my personal experiences and biases, focusing on the French and European markets.
readTransparent tools, opaque lives
We want to see into our tools. We do not want our tools to see into us. The current regime has it backwards: opaque technologies, transparent lives. The fix requires both axes: make tools inspectable and make lives unreadable.
readIn praise of the bouncer
There is no best level of openness, only gates designed for their purpose. Open one gate fully and a second one forms where you weren't looking. Design the gate deliberately or its design will be inherited from whoever gains most when it opens.
readScale or craft. The interface moat is dead.
The interface moat is dead, that's settled. What nobody asked is what opened. AI revealed two independent axes (Scale and Craft) that the interface moat was hiding. Three quadrants survive; one got repriced to commodity. The question isn't whether the moat is dead. It's which quadrant you're in.
readThe emergence of a European terroir for software
If an ICC judge can be cut off from the global banking system by executive order, so can you. Software has "terroir": where it's built shapes what it is and who can use it. A European terroir is emerging and "where your software lives" is becoming an operational requirement, not a preference.
readFebruary note to readers
readTaste is in the bookmarks
You learn more about yourself from what you save than from what you're told to want. The "Bookmark Method" (strategic saving over time, then batch review) turns your saved reels, bookmarks, and pins into a map of your taste. Everyone accumulates. Almost no one reviews. That's the gap.
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