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 · 1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Orwell's dystopian novel remains the foundational text for understanding how information architecture becomes an instrument of power. The mechanisms of Newspeak—systematic reduction of vocabulary to constrain thought—pre…
book · 1969
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
Crichton's 1969 techno-thriller is structured as a procedural autopsy of a crisis response system, and that architecture is its real argument: it dramatises how expert teams fail not from ignorance but from protocol rigi…
Films
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Michael Radford
The Ministry of Truth is not a propaganda bureau. That framing would be too simple, and Orwell knew it. What Winston Smith does for a living is something more vertiginous: he rewrites the historical record so that whatev…
The Andromeda Strain
Robert Wise
The Andromeda Strain is not a monster film. There is no creature to outrun, no villain to defeat, no moment of human bravery that resolves the crisis. What Robert Wise and screenwriter Nelson Gidding preserved from Micha…
Pressure
Anthony Maras
The decision Eisenhower makes on the night of 4 June 1944 is not a military decision in any straightforward sense. It is an epistemological one. Captain James Stagg, the Scottish meteorologist who stands between the Supr…
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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