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 · 1959
Advise and Consent
Allen Drury
Drury's Pulitzer-winning novel dissects the U.S. Senate confirmation process with a journalist's precision, showing how institutional power is exercised through procedure, loyalty, and the strategic deployment of informa…
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…
Films
Advise & Consent
Otto Preminger
Advise & Consent is a film about a process, not a verdict. The confirmation hearing for Robert Leffingwell as Secretary of State functions less as a courtroom drama than as an extended study in how institutions produce d…
Contagion
Steven Soderbergh
Contagion is not a disaster film about a virus. It is a procedural about the infrastructure that exists to manage catastrophic uncertainty, and about what happens when that infrastructure encounters a situation that outp…
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…
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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