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Product

Product thinking, design decisions and what makes something useful. 4 articles.

  1. Could a guitar pedal club work?My dad’s pedal-trading habit led me to ask whether a subscription library could work—and whether buying and selling is part of the fun.StartupsProductMusic24 Aug 202610 min read
  2. Your houseplants don't need Wi-Fi.What a plant-monitoring project taught me about designing connected devices around the physical problem instead of assuming every sensor belongs on the internet.HardwareProduct18 July 202614 min read
  3. AI belongs in the learning loop.A first-principles sketch of how AI might support durable learning, personalised practice and better teacher insight—without becoming an answer machine.AIEducationProduct17 July 202614 min read
  4. Democracy doesn't need another survey. It needs a feedback loop.Survey fatigue is partly a burden problem. The deeper failure is that institutions keep improving how they ask for input without explaining what happened next.Civic techProduct17 July 202610 min read

Related work

Case studies where these ideas were put into practice.

  1. Communiti LabsA founder retrospective on turning fragmented community feedback into defensible evidence—and learning why meaningful product impact did not sustain the company.CASE STUDY
  2. WP FlameA self-hosted performance flight recorder for dynamic WordPress, turning bounded request traces into explainable evidence—and a focused commercial software business.CASE STUDY