The essays on this site are organised around five recurring threads. Three of them are cognitive faculties (taste, creativity, intuition). One is the master variable that ties them together (judgment). One is the practitioner context most of these arguments are pitched at (product management in the AI era).
The pages below collect the relevant essays for each thread, with framing for the reader who arrived via search.
Taste
The evaluative half of how good work happens. A 9-step cognitive loop, supported by the discipline of clearing your own instrument.
Creativity
The generative half. Three independently trainable components, jointly necessary, with the weakest one capping the whole output.
Intuition
A third mode of knowing, distinct from analysis and from luck. Possibly the one form of cognition AI cannot meaningfully approximate.
Judgment
The master variable in the AI era. The half of professional skill AI is exposing rather than replacing.
Product Management
What the craft is in the AI era. The four senses haven't changed; what counts within each one has.