AI Will Break Command and Control
The CEO becomes the bottleneck Imagine a company where the CEO reviews requests and features, keeps track of what the product and engineering teams are doing an...
Jun 4, 2026
I'm currently building and experimenting with a mildly alarming number of things...solving my own problems, creating additional income streams and having fun making things.
Most projects start on a local Mac then move across a subdomain: quick prototype, simple UI and copy, it's now super fast with AI.
The first version is always my interpretation of problem/solution, low pressure, just enough of a home to see whether it elegantly solves a problem.
If it makes me keep coming back, keep using it, and starts looking useful beyond my own problem, it graduates to a proper domain.
The speed and how many iterations depends on whatever life is currently throwing at me or how fast I hit the limit in Codex or Claude Code.
Some projects move fast, some sit there quietly for months, brewing in my head but all of them are useful experiments, opportunity to learn.
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I'm a father of 3 from Sydney, a product and technology leader. I write about leadership, product management, technology and the messy reality of making work work.
I'm currently building and experimenting with a mildly alarming number of things. I also work as a fractional product leader, stepping in where the founder or CEO is still carrying product decisions on their own, and offer 1:1 product leadership coaching for senior PMs and emerging product leaders. I founded SoundingBoard, practical peer exchange for product people. Connect via LinkedIn, or follow me on X.
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