How a PM Ships Software Without an Engineering Team

How a PM Ships Software Without an Engineering Team
For most of my career, the gap between an idea and a working product was an engineering team. I'm a product manager. I think in milestones, user stories, and outcomes, not in pull requests. I've always coded and I can prototype, but turning a loose idea into something that actually runs, and keeps running, was someone else's job. That gap mostly closed this year. Two tools did it: Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Running a…

I Stopped Doom Scrolling By Building My Own News Feed

I Stopped Doom Scrolling By Building My Own News Feed
A few weeks ago I stopped using Reddit. Not because the content was bad. There's genuinely useful stuff there, but because I had no control over it. I was just overwhelmed with irrelevant content, negative content and constant suggestion of threads I have no interest in. I was full on doom scrolling daily, with a very bad signal to noise ratio. The problem is that once you identify doom scrolling for what it is, you…

Information Management Update

Information Management Update
Several of my goal breaks were oriented towards sorting out my tools and processes: My note taking had become splintered between OneNote, Apple Notes and many text files. I need a single source and it needs to be something that isn't difficult to integrate with other systems. Tasks were mostly in Apple Tasks now, but that's because my projects are entirely personal. I didn't want to use iCloud for work tasks when I move to…