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Escaping the boil
Burnout comes less from working hard than from work no longer returning the kinds of payoff your care, effort, and emotional investment are meant to create.
craft / judgment · jun 2026
Contextualizing context
Good context is curated, evolving, negotiated, and ultimately bounded by culture more than tooling.
craft / leadership · may 2026
The layered complexity of product teams
Product leadership means intentionally balancing outcome ownership, craft development, and portfolio bets as organizations scale, because each layer adds tensions no structure can eliminate.
collaboration / leadership · may 2023
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