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Finding My Book in the Wild
Last week, I walked into a used bookstore and found a dog-eared copy of the 2nd edition of Decode and Conquer from 2013. Yellow price sticker, highlighted pages…
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How I Landed My Dream Agentic AI PM Role at T-Mobile in 60 Days — After a Layoff, a 90-Day Visa Clock, and One of the Toughest Job Markets in Tech
Editor's Note: Today's guest post comes from Aman Goyal, a Carnegie Mellon graduate and Associate Product Manager at T-Mobile specializing in Agentic AI. After …
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Quick Inspo: Everyday Prompting with LLMs
Need a fast way to sharpen your AI prompts? Here’s a tiered list of the most impactful styles — from daily drivers to advanced reflection.
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Decode and Conquer 5th Edition: One Reader's Breakthrough
They reached out after our session on case structure and metrics to say how much it helped clarify their approach, and they've been loving the new edition—espec…
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The Top 3 Weaknesses Holding Back AI Agents
Microsoft’s Magentic Marketplace experiment — a simulated food‑ordering environment where customer agents chose meals and business agents competed to sell — rev…
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Top 50 AI Startups of 2025: Andreessen Horowitz’s A16z List
A16z's view of the most important AI application companies shaping enterprise adoption in 2025.
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CIRCLES Method™: What Each Step Actually Does
Many of you know the CIRCLES from interview prep or Decode and Conquer.
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I Turned Steve Jobs Into AI Prompts
Jobs' design thinking works perfectly as AI prompts. Here are 13 questions that force radical simplification:
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The Prompt Formula That Unlocks Practical Creativity
There’s one prompt format I keep coming back to:
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Decode and Conquer: When Friends Become Fans
I was surprised when my friend texted me unprompted to say he'd picked up Decode and Conquer 5th Edition.
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Book Signing Highlights: Decode and Conquer 5th Edition
I got a chance to do a book signing and author meet-and-greet for the new Decode and Conquer 5th Edition yesterday.
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When to Use AI Agents
Half the AI agent pitches I see are just expensive chatbots with delusions of grandeur. The other half are genuinely useful—but probably don't need an agent at …