TToluwalope Banjo

Writing

Notes from inside the build.

Essays, fieldnotes, and the occasional opinion — published on Medium, archived here.

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Organised by theme — so you can go deep on what matters to you rather than scroll through everything.

01

Systems Thinking

How platforms, trust, and governance actually work at scale.

  1. Platform Products Are Trust Products

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  2. We Changed One Word. Three Integrations Broke.

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  3. Designing for the Auditor: Lessons from National-Scale Identity Work

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  4. Everyone Was Looking at the Feature. Nobody Was Looking at the System.

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02

Building AI

Notes from shipping five AI products in a year — what works, what doesn't, what's overhyped.

  1. Five AI Products in a Year: A Builder's Field Notes

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  2. The Spec-time Spell Check: Why Requirements Intelligence is the Next Layer of the Product Stack

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  3. How I Use AI to Write PRDs (and Where I Still Don't)

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03

Career Journey

The unfiltered version — what the job search actually looked like from the inside.

  1. I Didn't Transition Into Product Management. I Escaped Into It.

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  2. I Had Already Written My First 30 Days for a Job That Never Became Mine.

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  3. Why I'm Documenting This Journey Before I Succeed.

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04

Builder Notes

How I prototype, what I cut, and what stays in the product.

  1. I Wasn't Trying to Entertain My Nephews. I Was Trying to See Them.

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  2. Every Product Begins as an Observation.

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