Archive - Thilo’s Substack

The value of focusing your product team

The cost of simultaneously working on several topics and how to reduce them

Jun 7 •

April 2025

Will AI fall short of hyped expectations just like predictive analytics did?

Similarities and differences of two of the most hyped tech advances of the last decades

Apr 27 •

December 2024

Getting co-founder dynamics right

Questions to ask your co-founders in advance to avoid fatal mistakes

Dec 29, 2024 •

Post-Mortem: Three new mistakes I made

My personal learnings from closing down a new venture.

Dec 2, 2024 •

September 2024

How much discovery is enough?

More is better, but how much discovery is actually needed to get the job done?

Sep 14, 2024 •

Should I quit or optimize?

Whether this is just a dip or a cliff is hard to determine yet fateful for your business and product

Sep 2, 2024 •

August 2024

Pragmatism: The opportunistic way of the idealist

In order to change things for the better you need to face the conditions that really exist now.

Aug 24, 2024 •

A case for hiring organizational fools

Speaking truth to power is unpopular but valuable.

Aug 16, 2024 •

July 2024

Being decisive when facing contradictions

Looking at case studies you get the feeling that decisions are always clear-cut and data supportive. But in reality you will face contradictions more…

Jul 12, 2024 •

May 2024

Strategic skill acquisition

When to focus on your strengths and when to tackle your bottlenecks

May 28, 2024 •

February 2024

It was always about the questions

The human role in the age of AI will be about asking deeper questions instead of giving better answers.

Feb 27, 2024 •

January 2024

Office politics are a law of nature

How I came to realize that politics are not a sign of organizational dysfunction but an inevitable part of human interaction.

Jan 10, 2024 •

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