Mass and energyNovember 20, 2024Some digital product companies achieve remarkable output with tiny teams. Why adding mass to a software organisation so often subtracts energy.Software
Digital product and experimentationNovember 20, 2024From scurvy to streptomycin: what centuries of clinical trials teach product teams about efficacy, relative improvement and the real cost of experimen...Discovery
Qualify your conjecturesNovember 20, 2024Fisher's null hypothesis is never proved, only possibly disproved. What that asymmetry demands of product teams that state hypotheses they want to be ...Discovery
A problem is not a task listNovember 19, 2024Ackoff said complex problems have no simple solutions. Why the backlog is a category error, and what wicked problems demand of product organisations.Discovery
Technological sensibility is a practiceNovember 19, 2024You cannot acquire a feel for software by reading about it. On Git at the centre of a company, Unix as the gold standard, and everyone becoming techni...Discovery
Talking with Dani Diestre about Instituto TramontanaNovember 19, 2024A second conversation with Dani Diestre: humanities in digital work, calculating, sketching, speaking and writing, and why digital product is complex.Product
Talking with Dani Diestre about digital productNovember 19, 2024A conversation with Dani Diestre on the Product Leaders podcast about the challenges facing companies whose main asset is a digital product.Product
Who is on the other side of the mirrorNovember 18, 2024Customers are people who sleep badly and watch too much television. On building for real lives instead of the economically rational buyer product plan...AI
Nothing is freeNovember 17, 2024Bluesky's growth curves are what every digital product dreams of. They also inherit the same unanswered question about who ultimately pays for a socia...Product
You have to find the right momentNovember 15, 2024Music lives in the silence between notes. On timing in digital products, and why what a team decides not to ship shapes the product as much as what it...Discovery