The Growth Project
Writing
Operator's POV
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We Were the Bottleneck: What 3 Days of Data Taught Us About Our Own Automation
We built an autonomous engineering pipeline. It felt slow, so we measured three days of our own usage instead of building more. The bottleneck surprised us.
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Dogfooding: The Difference Between Ideas and Results
Ideas are free and all sound good. Using your own product in anger is the only honest test. Why dogfooding teams ship truer products, and how to start.
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First Principles Are the New Scarce Skill
When the model can build almost anything, the bottleneck moves from how to what and why. The scarce skill is deciding what's actually worth building.
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The 11pm Fix: Why Plans Fail on Monday
Every plan looks good on Friday. Then Monday happens. What 11pm fixes teach you about planning, and how to build plans that survive reality.
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The Implementation Chasm: Why Forward Deployed Engineers Win
70% of tech projects fail in the gap between builders and operators. Forward deployed engineers close that gap. Here's how the model works.
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What Operators Know That Consultants Don't
Consultants see the org chart. Operators see what actually runs the business. Why operator experience changes how you build technology.