Personal Journal № 01

OPTIMISTIC APOCALYPTARIAN.

agilist. cook. cat-lover. coffee snob. aka grumpycat. ai enthusiast. Essays on engineering, product, and the messy intersection between hype and practice.

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Black-and-white street scene with gridlocked cars beside a flowing stream of scooters in Saigon traffic.
culture

02 MAY 2026

The Car Makes Us Bad Systems Thinkers

Traffic flow as a metaphor for systems thinking, fairness, queues, local optimization and organizational behavior.
an engineer in front of a white board solving a problem
culture

16 JAN 2026

Case Study: Engineering Management in Action

A case study on how I approached an engineering team in crisis.
a diagram showing the balance required for product management
culture

16 JAN 2026

A Product Management Manifesto

I believe product management is a decision-making discipline under uncertainty, focused on reducing risk and learning quickly rather than shipping features on faith.