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David Adams

You won’t be left behind by AI

I can’t decide whether I should be excited or terrified by the current pace of AI developments. On thinking about it, the answer is yes.

4 min readApr 14, 2023

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You won’t be left behind by AI

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David Adams

Build less, listen more — the antidote to failed products

Now, I have no doubt you have it all together. Far better than I do, at least. But if you’re like me, perhaps this will serve as a timely…

4 min readDec 20, 2021

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Build less, listen more — the antidote to failed products

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David Adams

Everything starts today

2 min readDec 10, 2021

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David Adams

How we’ve embraced One-Pagers at Poncho

If you just want to see the one-pager template we use, skip to the bottom of this article.

5 min readSep 15, 2021

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How we’ve embraced One-Pagers at Poncho

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David Adams

CEO of the Product works, just not as you think

Fifteen years ago 😅 Ben Horowitz wrote the seminal Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager. This included the famous statement: “A good…

1 min readSep 2, 2021

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UX Collective

Go left — great acquisition and onboarding beats a great product

If a customer doesn’t instantly understand how your product will improve their life, you will almost certainly lose them…

4 min readNov 26, 2019

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The Startup

Your engineering team is (probably) too big

Of all the places you can spend money in a tech company, the engineering team is often by far the largest cost-centre. Similar to digital…

5 min readNov 5, 2019

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David Adams
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The Startup

Creating a high performing product organisation

When you’re building a product, it’s tough to avoid the distractions and stay focused. Getting your entire product development team on…

6 min readOct 15, 2019

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Creating a high performing product organisation

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The Startup

The best product is no product

The best UX is no UX. The best code is no code. Pretty much everything I, and probably you, have worked on would be better if it wasn’t…

4 min readSep 27, 2019

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The best product is no product

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David Adams
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The Startup

The red alert approach to product development

Launching new products is really hard.

4 min readSep 7, 2019

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The red alert approach to product development

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David Adams

David Adams

Product person, software engineer and sometime designer. I love building startups and simplifying complex problems. @davidmjadams on twitter.

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