Jul 2026Written for AI Infused
The Skill Stack: Turning Judgment into Reusable AI Infrastructure
The growing importance of knowledge management in the age of agentic AI.
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Jun 2026Written for AI Infused
From Vibe Coding to Product Building: Moving Beyond Superficial Prompts to Codify Domain Reality and Judgement
Moving beyond superficial prompts to bring domain reality and product judgement into how we build with AI.
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Sep 2026
Coherence > Context
Why abundant constraints matter more than abundant implementation, and how human judgment turns fast AI...
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Aug 2026
The agent is the smallest part
The six layers around an agent that decide whether it works a second (and a hundredth) time: contract,...
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Jun 2026
Redesigning My Website Into a Desk
A note on redesigning aishashok.com as a desk/scrapbook world: part archive, part playground, with AI...
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Feb 2022
The fault in our product—why and how to anticipate?
It’s for a reason that product people often refer to a users’ way of getting through a product as “habit.”...
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Nov 2021
Who ever wrote that rule?
This is a trait that can be applied to building products. Re-framing the context of something users are...
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Oct 2021
Measuring product impact with effort vs energy
Quite often, product teams end up thinking this. It’s understandably true that products are hard—to be...
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Aug 2021
Things we don’t say about customer empathy
In the dense pages of the product rule book, one is surely to find the (over)usage of a term called...
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Jun 2021
What hammer syndrome tells about product features
Let’s say you’re threatened by a bug or a pet. The fear makes your mind picture the presence of what...
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May 2021
The two-question approach to product building
Building teams or products—the underlying need is always to solve for a challenge. Framing processes to...
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Apr 2021
How creating my own sticker helped me revisit product basics
I couldn’t think of a better title. Yes, it’s true I created a sticker—all artsy and nice. It’s also true...
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Mar 2021
The power of opposite thinking
Thinking the negative outcome has always been shunned, especially when dreaming of a start. Factoring in...
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Mar 2021
Observing Horror Vacui and simplicity
There are moments you learn the meaning of something for the first time, but immediately after which you...
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Feb 2021
Cooking and creative meandering
Some activities stick to you. And, then they form a part of your routine. Before you realize, they turn...
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Jan 2021
Of undone tasks and product(ive) experiences
The psychology of mind is a never-ending sea, and it amazes me as to how the same patterns can apply across...
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Nov 2020
When metaphors met the mind
Human minds are instinctive. What more, they can draw insights from one experience, stored ready as a...
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Oct 2020
It’s time to find that raison d’être
Unusual happenings help you discover some innate truths. Midway through a conversation I had with a product...
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Sep 2020
Building your mind like how you build products
Product minds are like the playgrounds during peak summer—gushing with thoughts, bickering with decisions,...
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Aug 2020
Yours truly, Product Marketing
So, what if product marketing stepped into the arena to let the chums know that it belongs to the clan?...
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Aug 2020
Finding nimbus—what networking means in a product world
In a product world where being a part of communities and building an amazing network of like-minded pals,...
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Aug 2020
Democratizing privacy, not data: The revolving role-play in the product world
Over the last few years, the importance associated with data has taken a name, privacy, primarily becoming...
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Aug 2020
How product-market fit met Aristotle
If you’re into building, designing, marketing, launching, or selling new products, the term product-market...
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Aug 2020
The editable digest — a peek into why no-edit Twitter may mean something
While it took just minutes for most of us to fill in university papers or scrapbooks, there are instances...
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Aug 2020
Everyday psychological nudges that help boost product interaction
When it comes to the product landscape, it’s the same psychological behaviors and credence that help users...
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Aug 2020
8 content marketing lessons I quoted in my personal diary
At gunpoint, your last wish is to write? In the middle of a day-dream, you end up wanting to write? As you...
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Aug 2020
Seven Telltale Traits Product Teams Can Find in Brooklyn Nine-Nine
You’re sitting at your home desk (your new work headquarters), and you really need to put dreams into...
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Aug 2020
4 books that surprisingly help you spruce up your product focus
With a bevy of well-known books written for anyone who wants to kickstart or ascend in a product career,...
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Apr 2020
When I was surrounded by a story-web…
Stories have always engulfed me in exploration. I love listening to people and stories contribute a lot to...
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Jan 2020
5 ways standup comedy influences product building
Product is a serious business, they say. So is comedy. Well, watching an amusing comedy performance on...
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May 2019
Center-brain email marketing: Where detail meets design
Psychologists have long considered human brain to be bifurcated into left and right, based on the style of...
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