Exactly what it sounds like - be relevant to stay relevant.
## Projects
- [[The Product Diary|Vibe Reader Product Diary]] Current project. A mobile app designed to be a frictionless reading companion for physical books. This diary tracks the journey from idea to MVP.
- [[MVP OKRs (Weeks 1 - 8)]]
- [[Product Plan]]
- [[Technical Specification (Android v1)]]
- [[Opportunity & Market Analysis]]
## Case Studies
### Commerce & SMB Infrastructure
* [[Square Case Study]]: Commerce infrastructure for the regulated economy. Where AI meets the seller's second brain.
### Healthcare & Regulated Industries
* [[Kaiser Permanente Case Study]]: Where AI meets the most regulated data on earth. Personal reflections from building EBSS, 30+ business-critical APIs, and the operational friction of healthcare infrastructure.
### Observability & AIOps
* [[LogicMonitor Case Study]]: The AI-first bet in observability. Edwin AI, Catchpoint acquisition, and whether insight velocity beats feature checklists.
### B2B Support
* [[Pylon Case Study]]: Omnichannel support & the Zendesk-killer?
* [[Business Agent Support Cost Formula]]: A thought exercise abstracting the levers of support costs; framing operational challenges.
* [[Zendesk Case Study]]: What assumptions and problems led to Zendesk? What problems did it create and where are we now?
### Security & Compliance
* [[Delve.co Case Study]]: Computation and productization of compliance. Agentic approaches to SOC 2.
* [[Skeleton Spec (PRD) - Secure Variables in SaaS]]: Designing secure storage for sensitive data in SaaS. Trade-offs between security, usability, and scope.
* [[Why Security Matters (Beyond the Checklist)]]: Where and how security is evaluated in a product's lifecycle.
## Product Thoughts
* [[Thesis - Current tools are lossy membranes]]
* [[Thesis - Agents are for understanding systems; Personas are for understanding people]]
* [[AI-Native Dating - Product Exploration]]: Stated vs. revealed preferences, the self-knowledge stack, and whether AI changes the relationship between user and app.
* [[UX - Glass]]: Reflections on the jiggliest glass.
* [[Metaphors for Product Management]]: The fanciful ways product managers consider complexity via abstraction.
* [[Compendium of Tech Writers, Thinkers, and Bloggers]]