I Taught 100 People AI in Two Hours
I recently led an Intro to AI session for over 100 non-technical employees. The goal wasn't to make them experts. It was to make the unfamiliar feel approachable.
Read →Perspectives
Thoughts on building with AI, design leadership, and shipping products.
Start With the Truth: This Is Uncomfortable.
My team is a mix of people who are excited about AI and people who want nothing to do with it. When we started adopting it, I told them the truth. None of us asked for this, but it's here.
Read →Your Team Doesn't Need AI Hype. They Need a Plan.
Most AI rollouts in organizations follow the same script. Leadership gets excited. A policy gets drafted that nobody follows. Then everyone goes back to working the way they always have.
Read →I Can't Write Code, and That Matters Less Every Day
I'm not a developer. I can read code roughly, the way you might read a menu in a language you studied in college. But I'm shipping things I never could have built two years ago.
Read →Build the Guardrails, Then Let People Play
The fastest way I've found to get non-technical people comfortable with AI is to take the blank canvas away from them.
Read →The Skills That Survive Are the Ones AI Can't Fake
Everyone is talking about what skills you need in the age of AI. Most of the advice focuses on learning the tools. That advice isn't wrong, but it misses the bigger picture.
Read →Nodding Is Not Alignment
Everyone nods in the meeting. The strategy doc is approved. Then the first design review hits and the room erupts.
Read →Stop Asking for a Seat at the Table
Every design leader I know has complained about not having a seat at the table. I used to say it too. Then I realized the complaint was the problem.
Read →New Managers Overcorrect. Good Ones Recover.
One pattern I see with new managers is they try to prove they belong by over-communicating everything. Every decision gets a rationale. Every update gets a deck.
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