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AI is eating the “keep things moving” work
Coordination gets cheaper, and the value of product work moves closer to what hasn't been decided yet
17 hrs ago • Ari Franklin
Why AI Skills Exist and Most Teams Will Struggle With Them
From prompt engineering to decision engineering: why the future of AI is infrastructure, not content.
Apr 3 • Ari Franklin
Skulto: Making AI Skills Resusable
I’m excited to announce Skulto: an open source app for discovering, inspecting, installing, and managing agent skills across different AI agents.
Jan 29 • Ari Franklin
AI Coding for individuals vs teams
Great for "me," but not for "we"...?
Jan 12 • Ari Franklin
Paradigms That Keep My Brain From Exploding
Simple ways to cut through confusion, avoid rabbit holes, and focus on what actually matters
Aug 8, 2025 • Ari Franklin
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Outcomes and operative phrases
Jun 27, 2025 • Ari Franklin
Paradigms That Keep My Brain From Exploding
Aug 8, 2025 • Ari Franklin
Skulto: Making AI Skills Resusable
Jan 29 • Ari Franklin
AI Coding for individuals vs teams
Jan 12 • Ari Franklin
The Kinesthetic Product Org
Building functional awareness with posture, tension, and breath
Jul 18, 2025 • Ari Franklin
Outcomes and operative phrases
Why vague language wrecks outcomes, and how to transform fuzzy objectives into an actionable strategy
Jun 27, 2025 • Ari Franklin
Efficiency got us Here, but it won’t get us There.
Why large companies lose altitude and how to build the muscle to rise again.
Jun 10, 2025 • Ari Franklin
Your Productivity system is your Map
Post 3 of 3 in the Lens → Mirror → Map series
May 23, 2025 • Ari Franklin
Productivity Is a Mirror: Fear, Power, and Identity in Disguise
Post 2 of 3 in the Lens → Mirror → Map series
May 9, 2025 • Ari Franklin
Productivity Is a Lens: What Your System Reveals About How You Decide
Post 1 of 3 in the series: Lens → Mirror → Map
Apr 25, 2025 • Ari Franklin
Capital-E vs lowercase-e Experiments
Learning is the goal. Rigor is optional.
Apr 11, 2025 • Ari Franklin
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Product as f***: Thinking in product. Writing to figure it out.
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