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Notes on the work before the work.

Short essays on deciding what to build, keeping context close, and building calmer product teams.

Keep the why beside the work

Decisions rot when their reasoning isn't stored next to them. Project memory is how a team avoids relitigating its past.

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Two tracks, one direction

Why we separate exploring from committing—and why the seam between them is the most important line in the product.

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The work before the work

Most product tools optimize for execution. The hard part is deciding what deserves to be executed at all.

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