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Most technology vendors leave the day v1 ships. We found that the real product learnings only start after that — and that the division of labor that sends them home is the same one that ships software nobody actually uses.
Read the full pieceMost teams treat law as the last sticker added before launch. We put it in the architecture phase, because by the time you actually want to go cross-border, rewriting code is cheaper than rewriting entities and IP.
The design industry's default assumption — that design is a phase that ends at handoff — is the reason so many shipped products accumulate a particular kind of quiet debt. Here's what treating design as a continuous tempo changes.
The entries below are drafts in progress — not promises, but reminders to ourselves.