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š® Can You Survive This Project as a PM?
Youāre the PM on a high-stakes digital rollout. The budget is tight, the exec sponsor is impatient, and your team is stressed.Your mission: Deliver the project without losing your credibility, your teamās trust, or your sanity.Letās play šScene 1: The Angry ExecIn a steering committee, your spons...
Jul 14, 2026
85% of PMs Are Now Using This Skill More Than Ever. (It's Not What You Think)
It's not AI tools.Ā It's not Agile certifications.
You may be surprised since these days, it's all about AI, Agents and Harnesses.Ā
Know what the CRITICAL tool is? No BS?
It's emotional intelligence.I watched a PM last week present a timeline to leadership. The data was perfect. The slides were be...
Jul 11, 2026
You're doing the work. So why don't you have the title?
Don't be like me.
I used to run the project.
You can relate to this, I'm sure.
I'd do it all. Classic "good boy".
Set up the meetings. Chase the updates. Write the handover docs nobody else wanted to touch.
Then sit quietly while someone else presented it to the director.
I wasn't invisible becau...
May 11, 2026
Stop Running. Seriously. Stop
Iām writing a different type of note today to you.
It may make you feel uncomfortable; truth often does that.
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But itās really to ask you 2 important questions:
When you look at what you are doing daily, does it lead you to the desired life you say you want?
If the answer is no, what is really ...
May 01, 2026
AI will make most people stupid
Sounds extreme, but it isnāt - and it will happen in many ways.
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First, for most people, algorithms will figure out your preferences.
Religion, politics, biases, preferences.
Then the algorithms will spit a lot of that right back at you in your feed.
Many apps have a feed by design; āHookedā by ...
Apr 26, 2026
Unpopular Opinion: Your 'Hybrid Methodology' Is Just Confusion With a Fancy Name
Half the teams saying they use "hybrid methodology" are just winging it and calling it strategy.I sat in a meeting last week where a PM proudly said, "We're hybrid! We do sprints but also have a Gantt chart."Cool.
So does everyone who's disorganized.
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Here's the uncomfortable truth:Hybrid doesn...
Apr 24, 2026
"RAG isnāt rocket science. Itās just organized thinking.ā šš§
Weāve been breaking this down RAG because this knowledge can be used with an AI tool to:
Save your best interview answers so you can reply fast and get higher-paying jobs
Reuse old winning proposals so you make money faster with less work
Keep track of meetings so nothing gets forgotten and you ...
Apr 17, 2026
Hereās something nobody tells you about AI
If you dump all the right documents into itā¦ it can still give you the wrong answer!
Why?Ā Because the AI doesnāt need all the information. It only needs the most relevant parts. And without a good filtering step, it ends up mixing truth with noise.The Filtering Step š§¹Once the AI pulls chunks of ...
Apr 15, 2026
What if I told you AI does NOT see your photos
You've sent a photo to ChatGPT.
Maybe it was a screenshot of a document. A chart you needed explained. A picture of your whiteboard after a long meeting.
Or this one?Ā
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And it answered. Accurately. Maybe even impressively.
So here's the question nobody asks:
What did the AI actually see?
The an...
Apr 14, 2026
"AI isnāt really āsmartā¦ itās just really good at finding stuff.ā š
Letās be honest: when people talk about AI, it sounds like magic.But hereās the truth ā without the right storage system, even the best AI is basically rummaging through a messy junk drawer.So far in this series, weāve:1ļøā£ Broken big documents into smaller pieces (chunking).2ļøā£ Turned those piece...
Apr 06, 2026
How to feed your AI
Waitā¦ how do you actually feed knowledge into RAG?š¤
RAG??
Well, if you missed the last post it was about Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and me complaining about a doctorate program in Gen AI. š
I'm also learning and taking classes more than ever before, because that's how you stay relevant ...
Apr 04, 2026
AI and suffering
Because I like to "suffer", or maybe that's the only way to explain it, I began a doctorate that specializes in GenAI.Ā
It's got to be a love of suffering to combine that with being a dad to 4 kids, working a job, running businessĀ - and trying to keep my music skills intact! š
It is quite fascin...
Apr 03, 2026
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