I spent 8 years at Microsoft learning how to build products with hundreds of people. Now I'm learning how to build them with zero.
I'm Mile. By day, I'm a product manager navigating complex systems and shipping at scale. By night, I strip all that away and build small, useful things with AI — just me, a problem, and a deadline I set myself.
This is where I think out loud about both worlds.
One mile a day. One experiment at a time.
Building Backward
I cloned a product making $120K/month. Not to copy it — to learn why it worked before building my own.
Read →- Solo Efficiency Without a Business Loop Is Just Sophisticated ProcrastinationMay 3
I built a powerful AI system that can turn an idea into a product in days. Then I realized — I was optimizing for zero.
- Depth Over BreadthApr 8
Doing more feels productive. But look back and there's nothing there. The real growth comes from being pushed to your limit by one problem you can't let go of.
- Solo Ship it: Little Deer ABCApr 2
My first vibe-coded app built with OpenClaw — from idea to live WeChat mini program.
- Solo My First Days with OpenClaw 🦞Mar 25
Vibe coding chains you to your desk. I tried building an AI team to free myself - here is what happens in my first 5 days.
- From Diagnosis to Structural Change — Debugging My Team with the Waterline Model (Part 2)Mar 19
Finding the problem was the easy part. The harder question: which of these problems are actually mine to solve — and who do I bring them to?
- Solo The Art of Being LazyMar 18
Laziness is the most honest driver of AI transformation. I didn't want to sort resumes, so I let AI do everything from scanning my inbox to deploying a password-protected hiring portal.
- Stop Patching, Start DiagnosingMar 17
Five rounds of feedback, five surface fixes, zero progress. The failure wasn't execution — it was that we never aligned on what success looked like.
- When Everyone's Busy but Nothing's Moving — Debugging My Team with the Waterline Model (Part 1)Mar 17
My team was working harder than ever, but results weren't landing. Instead of blaming people, I used a management framework to diagnose what was actually broken. Turns out, it wasn't the people.
- I Kept Re-Explaining My Project to AI — So I Built a System InsteadMar 17
Two years ago I said PM skills are find the right problem, design the right solution, make change happen. The framework still holds — but I stumbled into a fourth skill I didn't see coming.
- Solo Building My Solo Builder Agent — Filling the Gaps I Can't Fill AloneMar 17
I mapped out the skills a Solo Builder needs. Half of them I've never done solo. So I built an AI agent with the skills I'm missing — and ran a real product idea through it in one evening.
- Solo From Thought to URL in 60 Seconds — The Architecture Behind This SiteMar 17
The architecture behind One Mile Lab: Astro, Markdown, Cloudflare Pages, and an AI copilot that turns a conversation into a deployed post in under 60 seconds.
- Solo Restarting the Writing ExperimentMar 16
I've quit journaling, blogging, and thinking in public more times than I can count. This time I'm trying something different — designing the system around my laziness instead of fighting it.
- How I Set Up My Project Agent — Making AI Actually Work for PM WorkMar 16
A practical guide on building an AI copilot that understands your project, thinks like your team, and operates across your real communication channels.