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Why My AI Workflow Starts With a Product Manager Mindset
I manage four product teams while building two AI startups. My secret is not working harder. It is treating AI as a system executor.
Brian Arfi · Brobri
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Brian's writing on AI, careers, and building products. All from real experience, not theory.
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How to Build SOPs with AI That Your Team Actually Uses
Most SOPs are dead documents. Here is how to use AI and screen recordings to build execution checklists your team and AI agents will actually use.
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AI Resume Screening Without Losing Your Best Candidate
The fear is that AI cuts the person you should have hired. The harder question: are you sure your manual screening is not already doing that?
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Use ChatGPT to Attack Your Presentation Before Your Boss Does
Most people rehearse delivery. Presentations collapse in Q&A. Here is how I use ChatGPT as a hostile executive the night before.
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Why AI Replacing Employees Is Just a Myth
Many panic that AI will take over jobs. But AI is blind to business context. Here is why professionals who understand real problems are completely safe.
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Drowning in AI Information But Learning Nothing? Here Is Why
You are collecting random AI tricks instead of building a structured system. Here is why you feel overwhelmed and how to actually fix it.
AI
Is It Worth Investing Your Own Money to Learn AI?
People ask if it is worth using personal money to learn AI for work. The answer depends on how you value your time and the hidden cost of manual work.
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How to Use AI for Competitor Research and Cut Manual Work
How to use AI for competitor research and cut manual work, plus what we actually break down inside the AI Circle workshop.
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How I Maintain Focus at Home With a House Full of Kids
Working from home with kids is chaotic. Here is how I manage distributed product teams across time zones without demanding eight hours of silence.
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Building AI Product Roadmaps That Actually Make Business Sense
Most AI generated product roadmaps are useless. Here is how to give AI the business context it needs to create product plans you can actually execute.
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Stop Asking Kids to Be Quiet on Remote Work. Use Product Management Instead
Treating your home life and office work as one single backlog is how you survive remote work. Here is the exact system I use to manage both.
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How to Build an AI Resume Without Triggering HR's Nausea
Stop feeding your experience into an AI and asking for a professional resume. You get robotic junk. Here is how I prompt AI to keep my human voice.
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How to Summarize Meetings with AI So You Stop Wasting Time
Stop wasting hours summarizing meetings. Here is the exact AI workflow I use to turn raw, messy transcripts into ready-to-execute action items in minutes.
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My Daily AI Workflow: How to Stop Doing Repetitive Work
I stopped doing repetitive work and built an AI system that runs itself. Here is the exact daily workflow I use to get my time back.
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How to Use AI at Work: Start With Your Job, Not the Tools
Stop asking which AI tool is the best. Map your daily tasks, find the repetitive ones, and let AI handle them. Here is how I do it.
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Last Year This Needed an Engineering Team. Now It's Just Me and AI
A year ago this needed an engineering team. Now one video feeds eight channels on autopilot, built by one product guy and AI. Here is what actually changed.
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Building an AI-Native Workforce: A Practical Guide from Indonesia (2026)
Most corporate AI training fails. A practical framework from 20 years of building products: the AI-Native Ladder, how to run a pilot, and what to measure.
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I Saved $4M a Year Before AI Was a Thing
The $4M+ on my homepage is yearly savings, achieved before the AI era. The principle has not changed since. Who gets to apply it has.
Karir
I Run Four Product Teams. Every Day, Only One Thing Gets to Matter Most
Four teams, four roadmaps, everything feels urgent. Focus means turning down good work for the one thing that matters most today.
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An Approval That Is Easy to Edit Is Not an Approval
I made a decision doc impossible to edit, on purpose. Once changing it became expensive, the approval finally meant something.
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My Roadmap Looked Complete, Until I Checked It Against the Source
I asked AI to draft a semester roadmap from memory. It looked finished. Then I checked it against the original vision doc and found the holes.