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title: Writing
description: Articles by Michael Diestelberg.
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# Writing

- [Introducing ‘Mäuse’: An Expense Tracker for Couples](https://productized.tech/writing/introducing-maeuse-an-expense-tracker-for-couples.md): Mäuse is a local-first expense tracker for couples — capture costs by voice or manually, split them fairly, and settle up at month’s end. Free, open source, and on the App Store.
- [My Tech Stack - July 2026](https://productized.tech/writing/my-tech-stack-july-2026.md): A July 2026 snapshot of the tools I'm using, the ones I'm testing, and the products I'm keeping an eye on.
- [The Innovation Launchpad That Lets Non-Engineers Build Real Apps](https://productized.tech/writing/the-innovation-launchpad-that-lets-non-engineers-build-real-apps.md): How an internal innovation launchpad helps people across the company turn product instincts into working apps, giving customer-facing teams and operators a direct way to shape what gets built.
- [Building My Own Productivity Voice Agent](https://productized.tech/writing/building-my-own-productivity-voice-agent.md): Voice-native AI is shaping up to be one of the biggest opportunities in productivity software. Here's why OpenAI is uniquely positioned to win it, and what I learned building my own version.
- [ChatGPT Agents: When Every Agent Gets Its Own Computer](https://productized.tech/writing/chatgpt-agents-when-every-agent-gets-its-own-computer.md): ChatGPT Agents is a public preview of OpenAI's larger agent platform strategy: every useful agent needs either your computer or its own.
- [It doesn't have to be OpenClaw: Using Claude via Telegram](https://productized.tech/writing/it-doesnt-have-to-be-openclaw-using-claude-via-telegram.md): Anthropic shipped an official Telegram channel for Claude Code. It's more polished than the DIY OpenClaw-style setups, simpler to configure, and uses the Claude subscription you already pay for.
- [Building AI Agents? The AI Is the Easy Part.](https://productized.tech/writing/building-ai-agents-the-ai-is-the-easy-part.md): The models are smart enough. The hard part is everything you build around them — identity, cognition, agency, and interface. A framework for thinking about what actually makes agents work.
- [From Feedback to Feature in Minutes](https://productized.tech/writing/from-feedback-to-feature-in-minutes.md): How connecting in-app prototype feedback to an AI coding agent compresses the iteration cycle from days to minutes.
- [The Age of Mass Intelligence](https://productized.tech/writing/the-age-of-mass-intelligence.md): I ran a 3‑AI experiment after reading Ethan Mollick on "Mass Intelligence." Asked Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini the same big questions—then compared how each imagines our future. My takeaways and a clear favorite emerge.
- [How to Communicate Better (as a Product Manager)](https://productized.tech/writing/how-to-communicate-better-as-a-product-manager.md): This post highlights why clear communication is essential for Product Manager success and shares actionable advice from entrepreneur Wes Kao's conversation on Lenny's Podcast. Learn specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact, based on notes from the episode "Become a Better Communicator".
- [Google Gemini](https://productized.tech/writing/google-gemini.md): Despite less initial buzz compared to competitors, Google's Gemini is poised to dominate due to its mission alignment, tool integrations, vast distribution, search dominance, rapid development, and deep user data access.
- [Productizing AI Technology](https://productized.tech/writing/productizing-ai-technology.md): About the arms race in AI technology and how productizing it just started
- [Why I Write](https://productized.tech/writing/why-i-write.md): Why writing is an essential part of my thinking
- [Maker Time vs. Manager Time](https://productized.tech/writing/maker-time-vs-manager-time.md): Solving the time struggle of the knowledge worker