Decode
Decoding how work runs.
Notes, essays and teardowns on product work, systems, AI, digital operations and the gap between how tools are sold and how work actually happens.
Practical, slightly suspicious of hype, and mostly interested in what survives real use.
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Featured essay / Systems The website was finished. The system wasn't. From hand-built pages to a portfolio engine: what rebuilding my own site taught me about content UX, maintainability, and the difference between a website that looks finished and a system that stays useful. Posted 23 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
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Essay / Systems / Product From product questions to request lifecycles What looked like a simple request-tracking requirement was actually a workflow design problem. Posted 24 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
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Essay Visibility is the first system. The first useful improvement is rarely new software. It is making open work, blockers, ownership and next actions visible. Posted 24 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
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Essay AI doesn't reward ingenuity. It rewards low variance. Why Spotify and Stripe ship so well with coding agents. And why the lesson for smaller teams isn't "buy more AI," it's that the boring standardisation you put on the "later" pile just became the thing that decides whether agents help or hurt. Posted 24 Jun 2026 · 3 min read