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Product leadership for the systems era

Capability beats capacity.

Running product when the product is itself a system: infra, dev tools, ML platforms, APIs.

Read the essays

Operating record: product orgs that outbuilt competitor teams 25x their size and kept every enterprise customer.

01/The writing

Essays

The thesis12 min read

The margin you cannot see

When the product is a system, the change customers love can quietly turn your margin negative. You find out at month close, weeks too late to trace it back.

Mission Control8 min read

Wrong at scale

Hiring more people speeds up the plan you already have. It does nothing for the moment the plan turns out to be wrong.

02/The framework

Mission Control

Capacity is the obvious lever. It compounds nothing. Capability does, and Mission Control is how a team builds it: one loop, three decisions. The decisions are sight, conviction, and adaptation.

Mission Control: a mistake and a test for each decision