Psst. HEY. YOU. Lean in. I ain’t got all day.
You a Product Leader? Want something good?
Don’t mind the trench coat. Take this framework:
“Who Verb Adverb”
Look, I’ve coached and consulted with plenty of you types, so listen to me when I say that this one is a beauty, but it’s tough as nails.
I know, my fedora matches a li’l too well, but stick with me here. You’ve seen this before in OKRs and Vision statements. The framework. Not the hat. C’mon.
Continue reading Who Verb AdverbThe news got you down?
Is it hard to read, let alone write, a blog post about anything professional?
Me, too. So here’s a no-AI story about what I believe is your ultimate power.
If you’re a Product Manager.
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“All these jewels are caked in dust!”
Picking up the tiny oil lamp, your eyes dart fervently around as you silently wonder if you said that out loud.
“This is the type of thing a genie would come out of. Dang, I really gotta develop an inner monologue.”
Hopeless.
Digging out your handkerchief, religiously a part of your every-day-carry, you wipe… the sweat off your brow, and return the lamp.
“And return to my mundane life. I ain’t touchin’ that. With great power, comes great responsi- ooh! The Chicken ’n’ Rice food truck!”
Hopeless. And oddly specific.
Moments later, your friend finds this same lamp, squints as she picks it up, realizes the gift of that moment, and knows what to do.
Continue reading Garlic SauceI’m obsessed.
I feel like I’ve theorized a new phase of matter.
That theory:
Using NFTs as art media evolves artistry, enhances craftsmanship, and unleashes more beauty.
It evolves artistry beyond the limitations of the physical world we must accept, adopting the options of the digital worlds we can design.
It enhances craftsmanship from just budgeting the scarcity of atoms, to also embracing the abundance of bits.
It unleashes more beauty by unlocking more dimensions.
I really do see NFTs as options of artistry, abundance of craftsmanship, and dimensions of beauty. It’s fun to theorize, and more fun to manifest.
The key to my approach is to develop NFTs that unlock dimensions, specifically through variables that can take on more values when you go from ‘physical’ to ‘digital’.
Which variables?
Well this is part of the fun!
Here are some examples:
Continue reading Art MetaProjectImagine a party. You brought cupcakes. (Thanks!)
But they’re half-baked. And you know it. (Thanks?)
This is how I feel when I talk about my side hustle. (Yikes.)
Over 2025’s second half, I’ve learned, coded, tested, deployed, and even made a sale. (Oh, like a cupcake that looks & smells good.) Yet when I get into ‘the why’ with people, it’s obviously not fully formed. The drive I’ve been acting upon feels half-baked. (And you know it.)
Feel this way about any of your projects?
Here are the questions I’m tackling as I bake the raw passion behind my blockchain project, enough to feel confident in the actions I take, and the story I tell. (Gotta earn that Paul Hollywood handshake.)
Continue reading Baking Raw PassionAI reframing isn’t just everywhere. It’s expected.
Pithy sentences delivering insights. And dopamine.
These grammatically questionable one-liners have no problem telling you that not only are your current mental models embarrassingly insufficient, but that there is a wiser instruction-set to load into your intellectual RAM to process some topic du jour. It’s direct. It’s unapologetic. It’s exhausting. And it’s grown on me. How I hate that it has.
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The world has changed since my last blog post about 3.5 years ago.
While it’s easy to feel deflated in another ‘familiar’ spell, I’ve managed to feel inspired with a new and ‘fascinating’ magic. Plus, my two engineering degrees revel in not just coordinating teams of coders, but now actually being a coder myself!
Thus, once again… I am… a Scrum Of One. Itself, familiar. And fascinating.
So does this mean I am scrapping my Agilist career? Not at all.
I’m still networking for, and applying to, flavours of Scrum Master & Agile Coach roles. What more I can bring to the table, though, is some experience in software development, and I’d argue product management, too: after all, I’ve had to reconcile a vision & a roadmap as I prioritize how I explore tokenization for native onchain art.
(If that last phrase sounds like buzzword bingo to you, I get it: I’m honestly still figuring out how to phrase what I’m doing, and OMG am I appreciating how important it is to contextualize for different audiences. Especially when it comes to crypto stuff.)
This end of the calendar year has offered a moment of reflection, where I realize… I enjoy writing and meeting 1-on-1 with people, so I intend to indeed pick this blog back up, and start podcasting my reconnections with Agilist friends. It is more on my plate, but it’s how I want to evolve, for now.
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Shifting focus isn’t quitting. It’s strategic.
Learning a new skill is not scrapping, but evolving.
Le sigh. I don’t need freakin’ AI to wordsmith conclusive thoughts for me. (Y’sure about that, meat-bag?)
Here’s to your evolution.
Rock on, everypeoples.