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Analysis

Product judgement, applied to things nobody handed me.

Everything under Work is something I shipped and can be held to. Nothing on this page is. These are a teardown and a thesis, written to be argued with, and labelled so that nobody mistakes one for the other.

  1. teardownStrava · 6 min · · not shipped work

    Strava sells the comparison that stings

    Challenges are free and compare you to a number. Segment leaderboards compare you to named people on the road you actually ride, and those, plus every filter that makes the comparison bearable, are the paid half.

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  2. thesisABDM / ABHA · 6 min · · not shipped work

    Manual logging is the retention ceiling for Indian health apps

    India built the plumbing that could remove the daily typing tax from health products. Each of its 967 million identifiers holds 1.17 records on average, and this month the network is linking them six times faster than that. The stock and the flow disagree, and the flow is the one that decides.

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