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 Turns Us into Bad Systems Thinkers

Traffic reveals how quickly private inconvenience can eclipse shared consequence, and how fragile flow becomes when everyone optimises locally.
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.