Patterns of Knowing in Product Design 🔗
Intro In Marty Cagan’s book Inspired, he describes the frustrating experience of laboring long to develop product features that went ignored by consum [...]
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The Tmux Intro I Wish I Had Gotten 🔗
I’ve been using tmux for five or six years now. I encountered it on a project that was using Overmind to locally manage processes for an application u [...]
A New Kind of Load. The Same Old Playbook. 🔗
Originally published in our March The Current newsletter. Subscribe on LinkedIn. — — ERCOT has more than 225 GW of large load requests working through [...]
Automating Grid Reliability 🔗
The stability of the electric grid relies fundamentally on maintaining two key parameters: frequency and voltage. These must stay within tight operati [...]
Eggsperimenting 🔗
At a young age, I internalized the Pokémon mantra: Gotta catch ‘em all. For me, that took the form of animal rearing: mice, hermit crabs, guinea pigs, [...]
Dance Together — Stop Resisting And Just Dance 🔗
My second grader was giddy as we were getting ready for his 90s-themed choir concert. He mentioned a “big surprise” at the end that he couldn’t share. [...]
From Figma to Production: Creating Designs Developers Love 🔗
Your design looks great and you absolutely love it. But will your developers? Is it easy to understand? Does it speak the same language as the rest of [...]
Perfectionists, IRL 🔗
My favorite cliché interview hack after being asked what your greatest weaknesses is to answer, “I’m a perfectionist.” Mic drop. Your greatest weaknes [...]
Celebrate the Small Wins 🔗
Are you task oriented? Does your day not feel complete until you’ve checked X number of things off of your list? Do you get overwhelmed when you have [...]
The Fantastic Machine – Part 5 – Management and Regulation 🔗
See the entire The Fantastic Machine series → “A bad system will beat a good person every time.” —W. Edwards Deming Welcome back to the control room. [...]