Your product is a functionNovember 14, 2024Describing a product as a noun invites catalogues. Describing it as a function forces you to say what goes in, what comes out and who it serves.Product
Rhythm generates emotionsNovember 13, 2024A drummer's claim that we are rhythm machines, and why delivery cadence in product teams is an emotional fact long before it is a delivery metric.Product
Why software-based products are so difficultOctober 17, 2024Software offers no one-to-one link between input and output, and that fractal complexity is why digital product work resists industrial planning.Software
Digital products are about testingMarch 10, 2024Digital products run on probabilistic logic: approximating and repeating fast gets closer to precision than chasing exactness, LLMs included.Product
Refrigerated conductsMarch 10, 2024Nicola Twilley's history of refrigeration shows how one technology reshaped food, habits and the choices we give up without ever noticing the trade.Writing
Your product is a tensionMarch 10, 2024Digital product teams live between focus and urgency, a tension born of software's fractal complexity that no process manages to eliminate.ProductSoftware
IndustrialismFebruary 25, 2024Digital organisations still ask how long a feature will take, treating product and engineering as calculators. Industrial time does not fit software.Product
ResourcesApril 20, 2023Brooks and Levy: why adding people pushes dates further away, and how Pixar stopped seeing stalled resources once it put story at the centre.
CircumstancesOctober 12, 2022Products fail when they ignore circumstances: people never weigh attributes, they act on purposes, and purposes are not visible from the ivory tower.Product
Creationism in digital productsSeptember 12, 2022Digital product work keeps believing in creation from nothing: from Levitt in 1960 to Cooper and Christensen, the same diagnosis returns under new nam...Product
