List of posts

  • Reading, Resting, Sweeping the Sheds

    During my early summer break, I finally picked up The Art of Winning by Dan Carter, a book I knew I needed. It’s full of grounded reflections from one of rugby’s greats, but what stayed with me most wasn’t about trophies or training routines. It was about sweeping the sheds. A quiet team ritual rooted…

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  • The Competitor Profile: Still One of the Most Useful Things You’re Not Updating

    Competitor profiles aren’t just for the strategy team or a once-a-year slide deck. When done well, they help product managers, marketers, and founders stay focused in fast-moving markets. This post breaks down what a useful profile actually includes, who should care, and how to keep it relevant — without turning it into a 40-page PDF…

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  • Attention Is Easy. Trust Takes Work.

    We now move through digital environments that create habits more than they create awareness. No extra clicks, no awkward pauses, no time to second-guess. Everything flows. It’s efficient, addictive, invisible. But in that ease, something harder is quietly dissolving: the habit of doubt. The instinct to pause. The muscle memory of trust that isn’t handed…

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  • Real Change Starts After Go-Live

    This week’s reads got me thinking about the quieter side of digital transformation, the part where people, not platforms, make or break the outcome. A few recommendations inside, on leadership, ethics, and the space between ambition and reality.

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  • Mind the (discipline) gap!

    So many plans. So many brainstorms. So little finishing. Must be a mystery. Or maybe it’s just what happens when consistency is underrated and showing up isn’t sexy enough to talk about.

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  • When Competitive Intelligence Meets AI: Beyond the Buzzwords

    It’s hard these days to avoid the AI hype. Everyone is promising “AI-powered everything,” from marketing tools to coffee machines, from predictive tools to smart assistants. So I was curious to see what’s the “AI-powered CI” situation. After some research, I found some very interesting real-world applications that go beyond the usual “AI will replace…

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  • The Name We Tried to Kill (and Why It Won)

    A name won’t make or break a brand. But how you choose it says a lot about how you build things and who you’re building them for.

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  • On Staying Sharp in an Age of the Machines

    There was a time when simply knowing your stuff was enough to get ahead. But now, we are surrounded by knowledge. It’s not what you know, but how you think about it that matters. The challenge isn’t finding facts, it’s framing them. Perspective is what we need the most.

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  • Why It’s Not Always About Disruption

    In today’s world, speed has become a virtue in itself and we often romanticize the idea of disruption. The pressure to move fast, break things, launch, pivot, and disrupt is almost baked into the identity of modern product and startup culture. But I think we’ve started to lose something important in the process: the value…

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  • How to Integrate Pricing Intelligence in CI Systems

    Pricing intelligence is a vital component of a CI system. It involves the process of gathering, analyzing, and applying data about competitor pricing strategies to inform your own business decisions. For product managers and entrepreneurs, tracking competitor prices can provide essential insights into how the market perceives value, what consumers are willing to pay, and…

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