Honest takes on product management, talent, building in Africa, and the things most people in tech are afraid to say out loud.
Slack was built from the wreckage of a game nobody played. Quibi burned $1.75 billion in six months. Instagram deleted twelve of thirteen features before it sold for a billion dollars. Three stories about grit, building, shipping, and the discipline that separates products that scale from products that disappear.
Read the full piece →LinkedIn's Associate Product Builder program, Tomer Cohen's Full Stack Builder model, and Marty Cagan's Product Creator argument all point to the same thing: PMs need to reposition. For the full long-form version, read the Product Builder field book.
Read the full piece →Tosin Eniolorunda said his company couldn't find Nigerian talent that meets global standards. He's not wrong — but the problem isn't where he thinks it is. A look at four structural failures Twitter keeps missing.
Read the full piece →Most African tech companies have adopted Agile's vocabulary without building Agile's culture — the ceremonies without the values, the board without the trust. What actually went wrong, what Agile was supposed to be, and what it looks like when it's done right.
Read the full piece →We started talking about teams the way accountants talk about budgets — headcount, bandwidth, resource allocation. The teams that produce the best work are not the ones with the best process. They are the ones where people actually care about each other.
Read the full piece →The PM role is being carved into increasingly narrow specialisations. The problem is that most of that advice was designed for companies with forty PMs — and it is landing inside companies with one or two.
Read the full piece →ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, DeepSeek, Gemini, Perplexity, Cursor, v0, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Figma Make, Antigravity. The tools are powerful. The danger is thinking the tool stack is the product strategy.
Read the full piece →Postman is not just where engineers test endpoints. For a product manager, it is where assumptions go to be embarrassed in private before they embarrass you in sprint planning.
Read the full piece →Mixpanel, Amplitude, PostHog, GA4, Userpilot, LaunchDarkly, Metabase, Power BI. Beautiful names. Useful tools. Also very capable of helping a product team avoid the real question.
Read the full piece →Lovable, v0, Figma Make, Bolt, Replit, Figma, Miro, Excalidraw, Webflow, Framer. Product builders have never had more ways to make an idea look real. That is useful. It is also dangerous.
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