Focused Chaos

Launching Wordspine: A Fun, Free Daily Word Game

Side projects for the soul: How I’m using AI to build things quickly and learn.

Sep 1 • Ben Yoskovitz

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August 2026

How I Use AI Without Outsourcing the Thinking

The guidelines I’m giving my team for producing less, editing harder and owning the outcome.

Aug 18 • Ben Yoskovitz

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July 2026

How I'm Pricing an AI Product

The real costs, uncomfortable margins and live experiments behind an AI pricing model.

Jul 28 • Ben Yoskovitz

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How Companies Quietly Lose Product-Market Fit Without Noticing

Plus a simple, precise diagnostic assessment for figuring out what went wrong

Jul 14 • Brent Harrison

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Lovable, Cowork, Claude Code... You're Asking the Wrong Question

The better question: what bottleneck am I trying to remove?

Jul 7 • Ben Yoskovitz

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June 2026

Facing Failure as a Founder

I've been there. It sucks. But hiding your head in the sand is the opposite of what you should do.

Jun 23 • Ben Yoskovitz

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How I Ship Real Software with Claude Code (Without Being a Developer)

The rubric habit that stops the AI from faking "done," plus my setup, free on GitHub.

Jun 9 • Ben Yoskovitz

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May 2026

Launching Candor: A Synthetic User Research Platform

AI user research helps kickstart validation for problems, concepts, solutions and price tests.

May 12 • Ben Yoskovitz

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April 2026

Lean Analytics, Reconsidered

The frameworks survive. Many of the specific metrics need a rewrite, some don't apply at all, and new metrics are emerging quickly.

Apr 28 • Ben Yoskovitz

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40 Years Later: Remembering My Brother, Jacob Yoskovitz (May 14, 1977 - April 22, 1986)

A very personal story about my life. Feel free to skip if this isn't for you.

Apr 22 • Ben Yoskovitz

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Cannon Fodder: Pre-Seed Investing in the Age of AI

Signal vs. noise at the earliest stage: when there's more of both than ever, what should founders and investors do?

Apr 14 • Ben Yoskovitz

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March 2026

They Tried to Kill Product Managers. Now Everyone Needs to Be One.

AI makes building easier. Figuring out what to build and getting it into the right hands? That's as hard as it's ever been. Welcome to the job you…

Mar 31 • Ben Yoskovitz

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