State Transition

Anti-agentic design

When products are bad and people should feel bad for making them that way

Jan 11 • Glenn Stovall

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Building software that amplifies agency

Stop building for coercion, start building for empowerment

Jan 2 • Glenn Stovall

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December 2025

This New Year's, try a strategy instead of a resolution

At the edges no. 18

Dec 29, 2025 • Glenn Stovall

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The product taste equation

empathy + domain Knowledge + creativity

Dec 18, 2025 • Glenn Stovall

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Apply product taste requires making difficult cuts

Subtraction as a solution

Dec 12, 2025 • Glenn Stovall

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NaNoWriMo-style challenge trip report

How I wrote 24,000 words in 30 days

Dec 4, 2025 • Glenn Stovall

November 2025

Proudct thinking round-up no.1

What I'm reading while doing book research

Nov 28, 2025 • Glenn Stovall

What the art and science of chicken sexing can teach us about product thinking

Implicit vs. intentional learning

Nov 25, 2025 • Glenn Stovall

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The big list of product thinking heuristics

(Below is the most complete collection of product thinking and design heuristics I’ve compiled for System is as System does.

Nov 20, 2025 • Glenn Stovall

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I'm committing to a NaNoWriMo-style Challenge for this book

Goal: 45,000 words by 12/1

Nov 1, 2025 • Glenn Stovall

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October 2025

Recommendation Game

only YOU can prevent algorithms

Oct 15, 2025 • Glenn Stovall

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State of the book, October 2025

State of the book no.1

Oct 13, 2025 • Glenn Stovall