Hi, I am Aleksandar. I build systems that survive reality. This digital garden is the context bridge between every hill, bet, exploration; lossless by design, and ideas move organically: ideate, contextualize, plan, prototype, log the wins and the losses, measure, then iterate or drop. ![[context-intelligence-map.png]] * The hills are live. Click one to walk into that part of the garden.* **By day,** I translate chaos into clarity. Catching the edge cases that break in the wild, turning them into requirements that build anti-fragile software. Douse fires with out-of-the-box solutions. Design worlds where the fires cannot start. **By night,** I read and I build. The only way to understand a new technology is to break it, rebuild it, and ship it. I hold the (mostly) correct opinion that yogurt is a cure-all. --- ## Current Explorations * [[Vibe Reader Product Log]] - Building a voice-first reading companion for physical books. Lock screen capture, instant definitions, and a frictionless way to save what matters. *Explore your vibe with AI-powered insights.* * [[Product Explorations]] - Notes on building things people actually want. Product thinking, UX observations, and the ongoing education in what makes software stick. * [[Product Explorations#Case Studies|Case Studies]] - Industry deep dives on Square, Kaiser Permanente, LogicMonitor, Zendesk, Pylon, Delve, etc.. Where the strategy is, where the bets are, and what I would do next. * [[Books]] - The full reading list, what is finished, what is on deck. * [[Thought Drawer]] - The digital junk drawer. Half-formed ideas, yogurt theses, and things that do not fit elsewhere. ## Currently Reading * [[Sula]] - Toni Morrison on friendship, betrayal, and the town that needs its outcast. * [[Cracking the PM Interview]] - McDowell and Bavaro's field guide to the PM gauntlet. * [[Dungeon Crawler Carl]] - Earth becomes a dungeon reality show; a man and his cat descend. Matt Dinniman's LitRPG. --- > Find me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekzandar/) for the professional stuff.