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Essays

Opinions are mine.

Growth, media, AI, and craft—where my thinking goes when it needs more room than a post.

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Media

Personalization isn’t a feature, it’s a platform—and most streaming services get it backwards

Most streaming services ship a “Because you watched” row and call it personalization. The real thing is four layers, and the row is the last one.

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Craft

What an MS in Law taught me about data governance that no PM course ever did

Three lessons from a privacy-compliance rebuild at People Inc.—where compliant and trustworthy weren’t the same decision, and the legal vocabulary changed the product.

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Growth

Growth, Personalization, AI, and Data (A Primer)

Six data trade-offs teams make when scaling AI—completeness, accuracy, relevance, connectivity, legibility, and privacy—and what each one costs.

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AI

Context Rules Everything

Context has always ruled everything. AI just made it easier to see—and gave it a through-line to the P&L.

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Craft

Technically Speaking…

Technical with a capital T is the kind of product you support. Technical with a lowercase t is a skill every PM now needs—and the line keeps moving.

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Craft

A Roadmap to Making Better Choices: Developing Curiosity, Discernment, and Agency

Mentorship conversations tend to resolve to three skills: curiosity, discernment, and agency—and to remembering you are the principal of your own career.

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