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Why metrics lie without context
Every metric needs three things: the number, the mechanism that caused it, and the counter-metric (what you sacrificed). Without all three, you're guessing.
Notes
Thinking out loud about product, engineering, and the space in between.
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·5 min
Being a remote PM across countries
Remote PM fails when you solve timezone overlap with better scheduling. The real skill is async-first: persistent docs, written decisions, shared context.
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The meeting where everyone says yes
When nobody disagrees, nobody's thinking. A PM with no position turns the roadmap into a parking lot of unrelated features.
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Why I prototype in code
Diagrams hide the hard parts. Building a real system, even a small one, exposes the architectural constraints that should drive product decisions.
If you want to see the reasoning applied to real products, the case studies have the details.