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Lesson 89 • Design Systems that Survive Error
I’m pointing ahead at the storms and warning you — us — to batten down the hatches. You shouldn't feel certain about your tech job.
Apr 27
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 88 • Quit
We stack our resumes, we stack our bios, we stack accomplishments. Stoic Designer is a newsletter about cool-headed, practical thinking to help put the…
Feb 3
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 87 • Bright-side OS
What we need, instead, is permission to pause.
Jan 28
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Michael Schofield
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Vigil #1 • Product Manager Kill Chain
IP Law, Product Manager Role Erosion, and Pentagon Kill Chain
Jan 23
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 86 • Hill Climbing
This is not a test of purity but of perseverance.
Jan 20
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Michael Schofield
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Scipio's Villa and the Product Over Time
Dec 9, 2019
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 78: Good Design Work does not mean Successful Product
Mar 18, 2021
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 87 • Bright-side OS
Jan 28
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 79: 🐴 Product is the horse
Mar 20, 2021
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 85 • The Candle
How to be cast in stark relief in the candlelight.
Jan 13
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 84 • Clear and good-enough systems
The stoic designer builds systems, not resolutions.
Jan 6
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 83 • Why bother[?/.]
How to continually jump off cliffs.
Jan 2
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 82 • On Interdependence
There is a delicate balance between autonomy and interdependence.
Oct 19, 2024
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 81 • Autonomy is a state
Autonomy is something you cultivate. You make a promise, you keep a promise; you talk, you walk.
Oct 14, 2024
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 80 • Caeruleum Velum Mortis
"Blue Screen of Death." This is the software-engineering-disaster equivalent of the butterfly flapping its wings and begetting a hurricane.
Jul 25, 2024
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Michael Schofield
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Lesson 79: 🐴 Product is the horse
It does the service no harm for the product to be put together or taken apart
Mar 20, 2021
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Michael Schofield
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