The Backlog of Enlightenment
In product, as in life, nothing is ever truly done. This page collects the lessons, contradictions, and post-mortems that make up The Tao of Product Management. A living index of all product wisdom — categorized, delayed, and occasionally delivered.
Browse the backlog. Find your blocker. Accept it.
I. The Paradoxes of Product
Where philosophy meets Jira.
Timeless questions of existence, measurement, and meaning.
II. The Corporate Condition
Where alignment is worshipped and understanding optional.
On decks, deadlines, politics, and PowerPoint faith.
III. The Gospel of Agile Hypocrisy
Scrum in spirit, waterfall in practice.
The rituals we call process, the faith we call velocity.
IV. The Tao of Product
Wisdom through contradiction. Serenity through backlog.
Minimalism, impermanence, and the PM’s search for balance.
V. The Way of Data
Truth, bias, and the art of selective measurement.
Where insight meets interpretation.
VI. The Product Abyss
On futility, entropy, and the beauty of inevitable failure.
Acceptance through iteration. Peace through chaos.
VII. The Laws of Influence
Power, ego, and the illusion of alignment.
The gentle art of herding stakeholders.
VIII. The Mirage of the User
Empathy theater and the art of projected understanding.
What we think we know about those we build for.
IX. The Illusion of Control
Estimation, planning, and the management of the unknowable.
Hope as a framework. Certainty as theater.
X. The Serenity of Acceptance
What remains when you stop pretending to be in control.
Release, reflection, and the grace of unfinished work.
This backlog will never be done.
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