· Dave Mathias · Ideas
A Score Is Not a Strategy
How product teams can make better tradeoffs, choose the right prioritization framework, and use AI without outsourcing judgment.
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Writing on AI, products, empathy, data-informed decisions, and better ways of working.
· Dave Mathias · IdeasAI Should Not Do Your Thinking. It Should Make Your Thinking Better.
The hardest AI skill is not prompting. It is knowing when the answer deserves your trust, and using AI to strengthen rather than replace human judgment.
· Dave Mathias · IdeasProductCamp Conversations: Making Room for the Parts of Product That Don't Fit on a Roadmap
Allison Herbert and Dave Mathias are taking the spirit of ProductCamp into a new weekly podcast about community, the human side of product, and what practitioners learn when they compare notes.
· Dave Mathias · IdeasThe Amnesia Tax: What Forgetting Costs Your Organization
Organizations pay a hidden tax every time they relitigate a decision they already made. Here's what the amnesia tax is, why it compounds, and how to stop paying it.
· Dave Mathias · IdeasYour AI Pilot Didn't Fail. Your Decision Process Did.
Most stalled enterprise AI pilots weren't killed by the technology. They were killed by decisions nobody made. Here's the diagnosis and what to do differently.
· Dave Mathias · IdeasVibe Coding Has Two Jobs. Most Companies Give It Neither.
Vibe coding earns its keep in two places: de-risking product bets before engineering gets expensive, and solving the long tail of internal problems engineering will never touch. Here's how to run both.