I help founders lead product. SaaS product management, design, and growth. Founder @productforward / Expert Coach @saasacademy
Floating betwixt vice & virtue
Joined October 2008
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Good product is grounded, ordered, obsessed over, and differentiated. Improve your grip on any one of these and growth gets easier.
Did you switch away from Wordpress, Webflow, etc to using AI to manage your site? I wanna talk to you!
Joel Smith retweeted
Great advice: do more
Also great advice: do less
How do you make sense of it?
Do more of fewer.
“Perfect every detail. Limit the number of details.” -Jack Dorsey
Joel Smith retweeted
Yes, we have a Foundation Models CLI #WWDC26
- Update your Mac
- Download Xcode 27 (beta)
- run `fm` in Terminal
That's it ✨
highest compounding mindset for doing anything hard:
you’re either right and rewarded, or wrong and learned.
Joel Smith retweeted
This vocabulary is a side-effect of domain expertise. Having domain expertise makes you way better at getting what you actually want from AI relative to other people.
So learn how to code, learn design, all the fundamentals. It’s incredibly revelant, and it will stay relevant.
To get good animations from an AI you need to get good at telling it what you want:
- "stagger this list of items"
- "make this animation direction-aware"
- "spacial consistency", "crossfade", "layout animation",
I made a motion vocabulary for this:
animations.dev/vocabulary
interesting thread… it’s almost like just building more doesn’t mean more customers. 🤔
hah, love this… because I’m totally focused on the boring stuff first…
I want the high-cognition to happen in my head more than I want the bots to do it… so i can feed it straight back to ‘em, so they can help me manifest my thoughts, strategies, creativity into the world.
Everyone building AI agents is focusing on building the prefrontal cortex. Planning. Reasoning. Multi-step chains. There's value here. CEO-stuff.
But also, a reframe: there is value in building the cerebellum. It's offloading boring tasks into reflex so the complex thought can focus.
Your mortgage gets paid by a standing order, not a committee. The things that are not fun, not interesting, but have to be done? Done. Most agent frameworks will fail because they treat all cognition as high cognition.
The winners will nail the boring stuff first.
