Waste, validations, and launches
Shaping instead of writing requirements, fixed time as a firebreak and continuous validation: executing digital product solutions without generating waste.
Library
Collection
The Shape That Repeats: Networks, Fractals, and the Geometry of Decentralisation
Why the same acentred, self-similar, scale-free structure keeps appearing across mathematics, philosophy, biology, computer science and political theory.
book · 2013
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
A behavioral economist and a cognitive psychologist demonstrate that scarcity — of any resource — produces a measurable, involuntary cognitive state: heightened focus on the scarce resource at the cost of everything else…
book · 2009
The Accidental Billionaires
Ben Mezrich
Mezrich's account of Facebook's founding offers product directors a visceral case study in how founding mythology diverges from institutional reality: the platform that redefined social identity online was built in a con…
Films
Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy
Michael Clayton opens with a monologue spoken into darkness — Arthur Edens, the firm's lead litigator on a massive agrochemical class action, dictating an ecstatic, unravelling brief that sounds like a man simultaneously…
Shattered Glass
Billy Ray
Shattered Glass is not really about Stephen Glass. It is about the editorial system that made him possible. The New Republic in the mid-1990s had developed a culture in which the admiration of colleagues functioned as a…
The China Syndrome
James Bridges
The China Syndrome is built around a single structural irony: the people best positioned to know whether a nuclear plant is safe are precisely the people with the most to lose from saying it is not. Jack Godell (Jack Lem…
Program
The Instituto Tramontana Product Management Program admitted a maximum of 14 people per edition, lasted 6 months, and met weekly in person.
The program no longer runs in its original format — the institute has left its physical headquarters and started a new chapter. My last edition ended in April 2026. It combined a practical approach, deeply focused on how the craft is practiced, with the development of models and conjectures — drawing on materials from different disciplines, mainly social sciences, as a way to elevate the practice of digital product development itself.
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Why software-based products are so difficult
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