TToluwalope Banjo

Writing

Notes from inside the build.

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

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Topics I write about

  • Product Strategy

    How to choose what to build when everything looks important.

  • AI

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

  • Platform Thinking

    Why platforms are the highest-leverage place to do product work — and the hardest.

  • Product Governance

    Designing the guardrails before you need them.

  • Identity Systems

    What I've learned from building trust infrastructure at national scale.

  • Lessons Learned

    Failures, tradeoffs, and the unfashionable opinions I've earned the right to hold.

  • Builder Notes

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

Coming soon

A working essay shelf.

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

    Draft

  2. Platform Products Are Trust Products

    Draft

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

    Draft

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

    Draft

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

    Draft