Writing
The arguments behind the tools.
Two strands. Temper Line is the essay series on the boundary between soft knowledge (instinct, reads, the stuff your gut knows) and hard knowledge (records, numbers, claims you can check). Workshop notes are shorter posts on what I'm building and why.
Temper Line
SERIES · 4 ESSAYSA series on the boundary between soft and hard knowledge in product development.
01Great PMs Don't Agonize
What separates the builders who thrive from the ones who burn out: they've stopped trying to close the gap between documented and real, and learned to work inside it.
Reset to Zero
A press operator in Tijuana lost part of a finger, and every decision that led there was rational from where it was made. What it costs an organization to perform certainty it doesn't have.
The Job They Already Did
At a 13-person public health data startup, our pitch went nowhere until a prospect's operations team mentioned a job they were already doing by hand. Running the pilot that turned it into a product.
Workshop notes
SHORTER · WHAT I'M BUILDINGRunning the Factory
I have a mechanical engineering degree and I've never shipped production code. I shipped a real, secured SaaS by building the system that builds it, and the first thing that system did was fail on purpose.
Tools With Opinions
I published three essays as an experiment, then went quiet for two months. The thesis kept going without me and came back as software.