Why the AI jobs numbers still look fine, what everyone’s quietly racing toward, and where to stand before the build-out ends.

Athletes blow past their goals. Companies sandbag theirs. Why that gap quietly distorts product planning, and how a living plan fixes the number.

What happens when your company finishes every good idea that’s core to its mission? We’re about to find out.

Strategic plans don’t fail in the planning room. They fail at checkout, when a dozen reasonable asks get crunched into one order. Part 2 covers the two pieces of diligence that separate plans that hold from plans that hope.

After 20 years in product, an uncomfortable truth: your strategic plan probably doesn’t contain what you asked for.