Applied AI
Not another AI newsletter. Opinionated analysis of how artificial intelligence changes the way products are built, decisions are made, and value is created.
No trend roundups. No paper summaries. No "top 10 tools" lists. Each essay takes a position. Some of those positions will be wrong. That's the cost of saying something that matters.
The Craft
Positions, Not Summaries
Every essay argues something specific. Not "here are the pros and cons of building vs. buying" but which one, when, and why the conventional wisdom gets it wrong. If you want balanced, read a whitepaper.
Built From Builds
This isn't written from the analyst's seat. It's written from inside the decision, after the stakeholder meeting, during the trade-off, in the middle of the mess. Theory that hasn't survived contact with a roadmap doesn't make it here.
The Question Behind the Question
Most AI product discourse argues about solutions. The harder, more valuable work is figuring out whether you're solving the right problem. These essays start there.
About
Applied Craft is written by a product builder who has spent years at the intersection of product strategy and artificial intelligence.
This is not journalism. It's not consulting. It's one practitioner's attempt to think clearly about hard problems in public, and to share those frameworks with others facing the same decisions.
The name says what it is: the craft of applying ideas to real work. Starting with AI. Eventually, more.
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