Tinkering is underrated
I spent years losing the same argument with myself every morning. Building the thing that ended it taught me more about product work than the quarter it sat in.
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I spent years losing the same argument with myself every morning. Building the thing that ended it taught me more about product work than the quarter it sat in.
I spent my whole life believing effort, sincerity and hours were directly proportional to outcome. Then time stopped being abundant, and the equation stopped holding.
Why protecting two uninterrupted hours each morning made me a better PM, thinker, and dad.
Everyone is competing on the model. Almost nobody is competing on the thing that actually decides whether the output is useful.
I played centre midfield at national level until my body stopped agreeing. What carried into product work wasn't discipline or teamwork — it was a lesson I'm still resisting.
A short note on starting this site — what I'll write about and why it's out in the open.