Sameer Bajaj
Product manager at Affirm, previously Twitter. Outside of work, I take things apart, from smart cribs to AI agents, and write about what I learn along the way.
Side Projects
Personalized wisdom from product leaders featured on Lenny's Podcast matched to your exact company situation.
Native macOS app to inspect, evaluate, and manage AI agent skills across providers.
Analytics dashboard built by reverse-engineering my smart crib's API. Detailed sleep architecture and CSV data export.
macOS menu bar app that monitors Codex CLI quota across multiple OpenAI accounts at a glance.
Transform messy Kindle clippings into structured notes with highlight search and Readwise export.
Selected Writing
A product strategy breakdown of AI code editors, zero switching costs, and where the real moat lies.
How Petr Cech's penalty research and Andre Agassi's hidden tell prove luck is often invisible, hyper-specific preparation.
An Adlerian framework on unlearning the need for control and turning relationship anxiety into support.
Why Xerox PARC fumbled the GUI, and what Daniel Ek's warning on focus teaches builders about protecting what made them great.
Book Notes
The foundational guide on diagnostic kernels, guiding policies, and why most strategy is fluff.
The essence of competitive advantage, five forces, and why competition in business isn't about being the best.
Churchill's formative, audacious years as an ambitious young war correspondent in South Africa.
Shackleton's shipwreck and the ultimate case study in crisis leadership and perseverance.
Essential traps of p-values, power analysis, and hidden incentives in scientific studies.