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It does the service no harm for the product to be put together or taken apart

Mar 20, 2021

You must try to decouple your sense of value as a crafts-person from the entity that buys your wares.

Mar 18, 2021

When you drift off path, oh well, the path's still right there.

Mar 17, 2021

How much of what you do routinely matters?

Jul 6, 2020

The lesson then is that this is not the worst. You can think. You can do. You are not without agency here.

Mar 16, 2020

Practice really hearing Listen now | Getting inside of our users' heads provides context and evidence for the choices we make about what's actually in our control: the service…

Jan 20, 2020

The end of year reckoning is often a punch to the gut, but it shouldn't be.

Dec 30, 2019

Scipio's Villa and the Product Over Time Listen now (6 min) | I am resting at the country-house which once belonged to Scipio Africanus himself; and I write to you after doing reverence to his…

Dec 9, 2019

We make up deadlines, sure; we make up year ends, too.

Dec 1, 2019

It's Halloween 🦇 The Veil is Thin Listen now (2 min) | Back in April I introduced Venerating the Grave UX (medium), which is about regularly “ritualizing” negative feedback. The idea is…

Oct 31, 2019

"Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole." - Our boy, Marcus.

Oct 30, 2019

Goal-setting should be constrained to factors in your control: that is, pursue goals that best prepare that arrow’s trajectory.

Oct 28, 2019

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