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Evals Belong in the System You Already Have
AI changes how teams decide what “good” looks like, but good product teams have always needed ways to articulate what that means before the work gets…
 • Ari Franklin
The Art School Model of Product Enablement
what I learned building an Enterprise product practice for 80+ PMs
 • Ari Franklin
AI Makes Coordination More Important, Not Less
The faster teams can generate work, the more deliberately they have to coordinate it
 • Ari Franklin
AI Agents Are Repeating the Microservices Trap
Splitting work into smaller pieces makes the system look cleaner, but the real complexity needs to be in the handoffs
 • Ari Franklin
The Most Truthful Roadmaps Lack Detail
A good roadmap doesn't predict the future; it communicates direction, exposes uncertainty, and helps a team learn whether its outputs are actually…
 • Ari Franklin
Goal Cascades Are Not About the Framework
Most teams do not have a goal-setting problem because they picked the wrong framework. They have a goal-setting problem because their work is not…
 • Ari Franklin
AI is eating the “keep things moving” work
Coordination gets cheaper, and value of product work moves increasingly to judgment and sense-making
 • Ari Franklin
The Kinesthetic Product Org
Building functional awareness with posture, tension, and breath
 • Ari Franklin
Outcomes and operative phrases
Why vague language wrecks outcomes, and how to transform fuzzy objectives into an actionable strategy
 • 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
 • Ari Franklin
Your Productivity system is your Map
Post 3 of 3 in the Lens → Mirror → Map series
 • Ari Franklin
Productivity Is a Mirror: Fear, Power, and Identity in Disguise
Post 2 of 3 in the Lens → Mirror → Map series
 • Ari Franklin
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