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Every dispatch, in order.

11 dispatches across 2 years. Each one was written when there was something real to say, never on a schedule.

2026

9 dispatches

  1. FR-011

    The most expensive way to sound like everyone else.

    A meme about asking a frontier model for a LinkedIn post, and the uncomfortable rule it illustrates: AI multiplies the quality of the question.

    Notes 2 min

  2. FR-010

    Which model, when. And do we really need Fable?

    Claude, OpenAI and Gemini now sell the same three tiers. A routing rule for picking between them, and an honest answer on the new top model.

    Playbook 4 min

  3. FR-009

    The Mindset Tech PMs Need Right Now (Hint: It's Not What You Think)

    A short post for project managers in tech about working with AI tools without losing your mind, or your team's trust.

    Notes 4 min

  4. FR-008

    The four AI tools that actually stuck. A six-month receipt.

    Most of the AI subscriptions we bought in 2024 are gone now. Four survived. Here's why, and what they have in common.

    Field Report 3 min After the Honeymoon · pt. 1

  5. FR-007

    Who's quietly cancelling their AI subscriptions?

    Well, well, well. Look who's quietly cancelling their AI subscriptions.

    Notes 2 min

  6. FR-006

    The status update that said nothing. A small autopsy.

    A six-paragraph weekly status report told leadership nothing. Here are the four sentences I'd cross out, why, and what to write instead.

    Playbook 2 min

  7. FR-005

    Two PMOs I have been, and the one I will not be again.

    Across fourteen years I've run two different kinds of programme office. One of them I'd build again. The other I keep getting hired to dismantle.

    Essay 3 min

  8. FR-004

    What the junior PM noticed that the rest of us missed.

    Six weeks into a stuck programme, the most junior person in the room asked a single question that unstuck everything. A short post on what we lose by deferring to seniority.

    Notes 2 min

  9. FR-003

    The meeting that could have been a paragraph.

    A weekly architecture review I attended for two years. Six pages of decisions across 104 sessions. What it taught me about which meetings deserve to keep their hour.

    Opinion 3 min

2025

2 dispatches

  1. FR-002

    Where Generative AI quietly pays off inside a PMO

    Requirements drafting, status synthesis, RAID summaries. The unglamorous wins.

    Field Report 2 min

  2. FR-001

    Building a PMO that engineering actually wants to work with

    Cadences, RAID hygiene, and the rituals that turn governance into a velocity engine.

    Playbook 2 min

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