Newsletter

September 2026 Newsletter. This month we take a look at how the pace of the traditional product development process is changing and how we're adapting.

May 2026 Newsletter. AI-assisted development has made writing code faster than ever. Features that used to take weeks to build now ship in days. Backlogs actually move. But speed has a way of exposing cracks you didn't know were there, and most of them have to do with quality. The thing is, "quality" isn't one thing. It's at least three, and they don't all move at the same pace.

April 2026 Newsletter. I still think about the teams I was part of at Yahoo and Acorns and ask the same question: how big should product development teams be now, and what is the right mix of product, design, and engineering?At Yahoo!, my Messenger team was 5 people and we supported a product that had hundreds of millions of downloads. At Acorns, we had 10x that number, but we were supporting multiple businesses within the same app. Even then, we still tried to keep it small with a single, focused PM, a shared designer, and a dedicated team of 5 devs.