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Writing on product strategy, AI, accessibility, operational friction, and digital transformation. The home of my thinking, not a portfolio.

Accessibility2026-06-014 min read

Accessibility reports do not improve accessibility. Better decisions do.

A stack of WCAG issues is not a plan. Teams improve accessibility when they change how they prioritize and decide, not when they receive another audit.

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AI and product2026-05-154 min read

AI should automate the work users hate, not the decisions they care about.

The most valuable AI in a product removes drudgery and keeps people in control of the choices that matter.

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Operational friction2026-04-203 min read

Organizations do not need fewer tools. They need fewer handoffs.

Operational friction usually lives in the gaps between systems and teams, not in the systems themselves.

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Canadian technology2026-03-185 min read

Canada's first-customer problem

Canadian organizations are often willing to talk to a Canadian startup and unwilling to be its first customer. That gap is where a lot of good products quietly die.

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Product strategy2026-02-244 min read

The biggest product opportunities hide in work people have stopped complaining about

Users tell you about the friction they still notice. The largest opportunities are in the friction they have accepted and gone quiet about.

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Operational friction2026-01-284 min read

Cheap software becomes expensive when staff become the workflow

The sticker price of a tool is rarely its real cost. The real cost is the human work quietly absorbing everything the software does not do.

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