At the edges no.20
Blog
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New Year's Resolutions and Spring Cleaning should swap places
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The product triad
Product thinking, management, and practice
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Jenkins Strategems 2
At the Edges no.19
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The 4 dimensions of advisory work
When to coach, when to consult, when to mentor, and when to manage
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Case study: How Rare Studios Pivoted Their Way to a Masterpiece
Why their 'Legend of Zelda' game was never meant to be
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Mistakes I Made Building My AI Assistant (And What I Learned)
How I used Claude Code and Obsidian to build an Agentic Agent (part 3)
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Building Blocks of Agentic Agents
How I used Claude Code and Obsidian to build an Agentic Agent (part 2)
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Claudatouillie
How I used Claude Code and Obsidian to build an Agentic Agent (part 1)
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Anti-agentic design
When products are bad and people should feel bad for making them that way
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Building software that amplifies agency
Stop building for coercion, start building for empowerment
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This New Year's, try a strategy instead of a resolution
At the edges no. 18
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The product taste equation
empathy + domain Knowledge + creativity
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Applying product taste requires making difficult cuts
Subtraction as a solution
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NaNoWriMo-style challenge trip report
How I wrote 24,000 words in 30 days
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Proudct thinking round-up no.1
What I'm reading while doing book research
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What the art and science of chicken sexing can teach us about product thinking
Implicit vs. intentional learning
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I'm committing to a NaNoWriMo-style Challenge for this book
Goal: 45,000 words by 12/1
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Recommendation Game
only YOU can prevent algorithms
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State of the book, October 2025
State of the book no.1
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Is AI taking our jobs? It can have mine (part 2)
What Is Dead May Never Die
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Agency is the art of being yourself
Distilling the agency discourse
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A collection of quotes to read when feeling unmotivated to write
At The edges no. 17
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LLMs can process but they cannot reason
At the Edges no.16
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A healthy information diet is more important than ever.
At the edges no.15
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How being data-driven caused the US to lose in Vietnam
The product quagmire
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AI Success and Failure Modes
At the edges no.14
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Just push buttons
At the edges no.13
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Couples therapy for you and your notebook
At the edges no. 12
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The rise of disposable software
At The Edges No.11
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How the AI boom mirrors social media’s rise
At the Edges No.10
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Why I'm writing a book for engineers about product thinking
Engineers, we need to talk about the work we ship.
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We’re all entrepreneurs, whether we like it or not
The "You, Inc." philosophy
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Jenkins Strategems
At The Edges No.9
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FOBO: The Fear of Burning Out
At The Edges No. 8
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Engineering management as talent wranglement
At The Edges No. 7
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Weathering the unavoidable discomfort of writing online
online writing failure modes and how to avoid them
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What I learned from Gambler, secrets from a life at risk
At The Edges No.6
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Who I want to be when I grow up
At the Edges No.5
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You don't write to share more, you share to write more
At the Edges No.4
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Trust Over Titles: The Engineer's Guide to Workplace Influence
Do this instead of gunning for a promotion
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Consulting models and failure modes
At the Edges No.3
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Prompters & Finishers
At the Edges No.2
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Architecting information, new structure for 2025
At the Edges No.1
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How to improve your product intuition (sample chapter)
or, Build better products in your sleep
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Work-life balance considered harmful
Here's 4 alternatives
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My Leeroy Jenkins Year
2025 the year of actionable thinking
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I'm dreaming(hallucinating?) of an AI Christmas
Corporations are figuring out what they can get away with this year
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The Type-A Mom's Guide to Traveling with a Child
by Kim Stovall
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The boring dad's guide to travel hacking
Aiming to break even on that third plane seat
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Efficient Markets vs. Roaring Kitties
A little post on common-sense speculation
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Flavors of freedom
Freedom isn't binary, it's categorical
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April 2024 Readings and Writings
What I've been reading & writing this month
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Creative fire, destructive fire
Is your budget working for you, or are you working for your budget?
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Financial Independence as Philosophical Suicide
Something always felt “off” to me about the FIRE movement.
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Is AI taking our jobs? It can have mine
The Wordpressification of work
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The tech industry is having a bit of a midlife crisis, and so am I
Midlife crises big and small
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Drowning below the LLM
Seriously how am I supposed to keep up with all this!?
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Loving uncertainty is a superpower
A guide to increased creativity & resiliency
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The uncertainty tailspin
Healthy vs. unhealthy threat responses
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Dose of disorder #2
Dose of Disorder is a collection of links about change, uncertainty, and chaos
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The foundations of disorder
Deconstructing risk, uncertainty, illegibility & variance
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How to advance your career: the art of playing up
Start before you're ready, because when will you be ready?
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Ethical office politics
Playing the great organization game
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Between the years
A time for reflection, rest, and renewal.
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Dose of Disorder #1
information overload, misalignment, Twitter, impostor syndrome
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How i learned to stop worrying and love the federal funds rate
Fuck around season is over, find out season is here
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Antifragile Interviewing
A technical interview survival guide
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Social media has reached it's definitive conclusion... now what?
What comes after Twitter?
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What is State Transition?
Life is one state transition after another.
