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Rob Evans, Product Manager. Thinking out loud about technology, principles, and the humans who have to build with both.

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AI, 6mm holes and asking "why?"

People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole. Theodore Levitt (Harvard Business School) Why ask why? There is a line every product person knows. “People don't want a 6mm drill bit, they want a 6mm hole” . I’ve heard it in more than one meeting. Probably because it does point at something real: the literal request is rarely the actual want. But it’s not supposed…

Dark Software Factories are Cool. The Interesting Bit Is Everything Else

When building a feature trends toward trivial, the bottleneck shifts. Three things that break, and the questions I want to figure out.