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Judgment Under Uncertainty

The Art School Model of Product Enablement
what I learned building an Enterprise product practice for 80+ PMs
 • Ari Franklin
AI and the Work of Slowing Down
Tying the lessons from Daniel Kahneman to the current moment in AI
 • Ari Franklin
Conviction versus Confidence
AI creates polished documents giving the appearance of conviction. But there's a difference between an idea you're confident about and a pressure tested…
 • Ari Franklin
The Invisible Work Under Every Cascade
AI can help teams trace the hidden assumptions beneath their goal cascades.
 • Ari Franklin
AI Will Not Save You From Your Operating Model
AI adoption will fail when organizations try to scale it as a fixed methodology. It will work better when they spread disciplined adaptation
 • Ari Franklin
Build what you’d use, then doubt what it proves: when every itch can become software
AI makes it easier to turn every idea into software. That makes personal use a better starting point, but a weaker reason to commit.
 • Ari Franklin
The Wrong ROI Question for AI
Evaluating AI with throughput accounting vs cost accounting principles
 • Ari Franklin
Against Being "Data-Driven"
Data is a compass, not GPS
 • Ari Franklin
The Power of Real Options as a Mental Model
This is not a story about AI
 • Ari Franklin
Product Intangibles: Minimum Viable Process (A love letter to Pivotal)
hint: it's feedback
 • Ari Franklin
Product intangibles: embracing uncertainty
What does it mean to work in an outcome-driven way?
 • Ari Franklin
MVP is not a Thing
Breaking up learning opportunities into smaller experiments can help gain deep understanding of the fundamental elements of a product and what will make…
 • Ari Franklin
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