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Speak Up, Write It Down, Put It Out There
Why forcing yourself to articulate your thinking is the most underrated skill in your career. From rubber duck debugging to publishing online, the mechanism is the same: saying it out loud makes the thinking better.
• Steve James
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About Me
I'm a Product Leader and AI Strategy Consultant. I write about agile product management, AI strategy, and outcome-driven delivery. Specialising in turning complexity into clarity and ideas into impact.
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Latest insights on product management, agile, and AI
The Case for Strategic Realism: Why You Shouldn't Abandon the Ideal (Even When It Hurts)
It is easy to dismiss modern product theory as 'out of touch' when you are drowning in bureaucracy. But giving up on the ideal isn't the answer, strategic realism is. Here is how to play the long game without losing your mind.
Selected Work
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Product Engineer • Current Project (POC)
Reddit Product Sentiment Monitor (POC)
An automated pipeline that ingests niche community discussions, filters for product relevancy using LLMs, and structures the data for sentiment analysis.
Successfully processing live data streams from 5+ subreddits with automated noise filtering and sentiment scoring.
n8n OpenAI / OpenRouter Supabase RSS
Security & Strategy Architect • January 2026 - Concluded
Project Jennifer: The Lifecycle of an AI Agent
From the 10X promise of autonomous agency to the hard pivot of strategic realism. A deep dive into Moltbot orchestration, security hardening, and economic constraints.
Prototyped a high-autonomy assistant before pivoting to a hardened 'human-in-the-loop' model to solve for unit economics, security vulnerabilities, and data privacy.
Moltbot (Clawdbot) Claude Code Ubuntu Server Tailscale