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What do you build when you can build anything?

What do you build when you can build anything?

The most dangerous outcome of unlimited building capacity is that you can become very good at fixing symptoms without eliminating the root cause. The bottleneck moved from technical risk to judgment. You need to know when a fix teaches you something and when you are “kicking the can” and papering over a deeper flaw. Before […]
A State Machine answers “when” and “why” for customer changes

A State Machine answers “when” and “why” for customer changes

State machines help you answer “when” and “why” for customer changes Picture this: you run a query and find the count of active customers. Next week, you run the same query and get a different number. In the perfect data environment, you know why that number changed. It’s a combination of new customers, customers who […]
Critical questions ops leaders need to ask when building Agents

Critical questions ops leaders need to ask when building Agents

Knowing how Agents trigger, execute, and log raises the chance you’ll use them well – it also happens to be good engineering. I just submitted my first PR for an Agent, and learned a lot in the process. The biggest change? My mental model for building Agents going forward. My assumption going in was that […]
5 Customer Journey Axioms Teams Actually Use

5 Customer Journey Axioms Teams Actually Use

Support teams are the early-warning radar for customer journey breaches Product-led teams often talk about their customer journey as the measure for delivering the customer promise. When they spend more time building a journey map in Figma than translating it to clear principles for the engineering team, that journey doesn’t always transfer. Want to know […]
Ship story-first graphics on demand with this modern graphics library

Ship story-first graphics on demand with this modern graphics library

Make it easy to ship story-first graphics with https://github.com/gregmeyer/modern-graphics Whether you write consistently or not, you need to compelling visuals to get attention. I’ve noticed the most effective illustrations are simple, well-produced graphics that look like hand-crafted slide deck graphics. These are (up to this point) best built in a vector graphics tool like Figma […]