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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 and the Work of Slowing Down
Tying the lessons from Daniel Kahneman to the current moment in AI
 • 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
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
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
The Small Pieces That Make Big Things Work
Most success principles are true. They become useful only when you understand how they compete, combine, and correct each other
 • Ari Franklin
Outcomes and operative phrases
Why vague language wrecks outcomes, and how to transform fuzzy objectives into an actionable strategy
 • 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
Productivity Is a Lens: What Your System Reveals About How You Decide
Post 1 of 3 in the series: Lens → Mirror → Map
 • Ari Franklin
Capital-E vs lowercase-e Experiments
Learning is the goal. Rigor is optional.
 • Ari Franklin
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