What Do I Really Mean by "Product"?"Product" is an overloaded term. In our day-to-day, when I say our teams need to adopt "product thinking" or be "product-focused," it can mean a dozen different things. To clarify my meaning and to provide a common framework I turn to a trusty 2x2 ma...Jan 9 · 4 min readsavageideas.hashnode.dev
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?Yes I wanted this blog to just read Yes but the blogging platform keeps moving it into the bin because it thinks it must be spam if it’s that short. So I’m adding some words to make sure that doesn’t happen. Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Affirmativ...Dec 2, 2025 · 1 min readsavageideas.hashnode.dev
Are labels a good thing?I’m dyslexic This is something I would not have always been so open about. I remember applying for jobs when I was finishing university and the forms would ask if there was anything around learning difficulties I would like to disclose. I would hesit...Nov 25, 2025 · 3 min readsavageideas.hashnode.dev
Mission Briefs - Your mission if you choose to accept itWhy are we doing this? I am always keen to try different ways of working. There is value in shaking things up; it forces people to try and think about things from first principles. It is rare for people to question their ways of working when it has a...Aug 22, 2023 · 9 min readsavageideas.hashnode.dev
Why I’m proud of my worst app10 years ago I wrote a public-facing website with a separate private web app for a small business. The technology I used was horrible, the processes I used to deploy it were completely manual, and the design was very much the UI version of hello worl...1SJul 5, 2023 · 9 min readsavageideas.hashnode.dev