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.
paper · 2026
AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse
D. Acemoğlu, Dingwen Kong & A. Ozdaglar
Acemoglu, Kong, and Ozdaglar do something rare: they build a model with genuine generative architecture — not a metaphor about AI deskilling, but a formal dynamic system showing precisely when and why agentic AI tips a s…
book · 1983
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet
Mamet's Pulitzer-winning play anatomises a sales office in freefall, where language is simultaneously weapon, disguise, and currency—a system that reveals how organisational pressure corrupts individual agency and degrad…
Films
Conspiracy
Frank Pierson
Conspiracy reconstructs the Wannsee Conference almost entirely through meeting mechanics — who sits where, who speaks when, who is permitted to object and under what conditions. Frank Pierson's film, working from Loring…
M
Fritz Lang
The premise of M sounds like a thriller, but Lang's actual subject is institutional architecture under pressure. When Hans Beckert begins killing children, Berlin's police apparatus deploys every instrument available — i…
The Front
Martin Ritt
The mechanism the blacklist constructed is worth examining precisely because it was not a conspiracy in the conventional sense. Nobody in The Front is issuing direct orders to destroy careers. What Walter Bernstein's scr…
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
Cartoons
