Product leadership for the systems era

Capability beats capacity.

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

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

01/The writing

Essays

Jul 4, 2026The thesis8 min read

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

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