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Aug 5, 2026
The Curse of Being an Internal Tools PM

Four Assumptions, Honestly Graded Meta description: An internal-tools PM grades the four things people assume about the job, glamour, career ceiling, easy users, ugly UI, against what the work actually taught him.

4 min read
 May 30, 2026
What an AI PM OS Actually Feels Like to Use (And the Three Opinions That Built It)

A senior PM walks through a real day on his AI-powered PM operating system — capture, synthesis, dashboards — and the three design opinions that drove every decision.

6 min read
 May 30, 2026
A PM Building a Second Brain: Why I Skipped the Vector DB and Picked Claude + Notion + Obsidian

A senior PM and solo builder maps five second-brain architectures, rejects the vector-DB default, and explains the four-store model that actually fits PM work.

8 min read
 May 30, 2026
An Easy-to-Build, Easy-to-Manage AI PM OS: 8 Skills, 3 Triggers, 7 Scheduled Jobs

How a senior PM turned Claude Code, Obsidian, and Notion into a working PM operating system — capture skills, a trigger model, scheduled synthesis, and the one habit that holds it together.

11 min read
 May 17, 2026
A PM Building Solo: Three Weeks of No-Op Deploys and the Discipline I Skipped

A senior PM ships a side project solo, discovers every backend deploy was a no-op for 3 weeks. The eng-team guardrails I had to rebuild from scratch.

6 min read