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Product thinking, design decisions and what makes something useful. 4 articles.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Case studies where these ideas were put into practice.
- Communiti LabsA founder retrospective on turning fragmented community feedback into defensible evidence—and learning why meaningful product impact did not sustain the company.
- WP FlameA self-hosted performance flight recorder for dynamic WordPress, turning bounded request traces into explainable evidence—and a focused commercial software business.