April 2, 2026 · Team and Culture
Team Building Is Not Just Dinner
We ate many dinners and relationships did not improve. Now we work in the morning and play in the afternoon.
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126 postsMarch 31, 2026 · Industry Watch
Tourism Digitalisation: From Ticketing to Experience Design
If a scenic area only digitises tickets and gates, it wastes the most valuable part.
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March 29, 2026 · Founder Notes
Five Pieces of Advice for Teams Just Starting Out
If we started again, these are the five things we would want to know on day one.
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March 27, 2026 · Engineering
Cross-Service Consistency: Compensation Beats Distributed Transactions
Distributed transactions sound complete, but real projects rely more on compensable business flows.
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March 25, 2026 · Product Thinking
What a Product Manager Does in a Project Business
Without an owned product line, the value is not in drawing prototypes but in thinking the client's problem through.
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March 23, 2026 · Project Retrospectives
Retrospective: Translation Is Not Copy-Paste
After the English site launched, overseas visitors said they did not understand it. The problem was the content, not the language.
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March 21, 2026 · Team and Culture
An Annual Review Worth Writing
An annual review should not be a log. It should answer one question: where did you get stronger?
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March 19, 2026 · Industry Watch
Education Procurement: Buyers Who Cannot Specify
The hardest part of school software procurement is not the budget but articulating the real need.
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March 17, 2026 · Founder Notes
Notes From Moving Offices
Moving from an apartment to an office building changes more than furniture; it changes how the team works.
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