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Northern Lights in UP, May '26
Captured on May 13, 2026.
Markdown with Tables in Ghost Articles
Ghost renders Markdown beautifully out of the box — until you paste a table. Depending on your theme, tables can wrap letter-by-letter, blow out the content column with horizontal scroll, or refuse to wrap long cells at all. The root cause is the theme's CSS: default Ghost
Hard Truths About Building Products
Throughout my career, I've watched smart people make the same mistakes over and over again when building products… and I’ve made them myself. These aren't edge cases or rare missteps—they're systemic delusions that kill products, burn cash, and waste years of effort.
Northern Lights in the UP, Sep '25
Photos were taken from a pretty old iPhone so the quality isn't great but the experience and seeing it in person is magical.
Perplexity’s Comet
Perplexity has been one of my favorite AI tools for a long time. It’s prominently bookmarked in Chrome on all of my computers; I use their extension, I have their Mac and Windows apps installed, and it occupies the spot directly under my thumb on the home screen of
Freshwater Jellyfish in Michigan
On a quick visit to a local lake, we found this little guy powering himself under a dock and onwards. I was shocked because I've spent a lot of time in and around freshwater rivers, lakes, and streams in North America and I've never seen one
Deming - Innovate
"𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞.
Allocate resources for long-term planning. Plans for the future call for consideration of:
• New service and 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 that may help people to live better materially, and 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭...
• Performance in the hands of the user.
• Satisfaction of the user.
One requirement for innovation is faith that there will be a future.
Deming - Management Accountability
"Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste... The consumer is not always willing to subsidize this waste. The inevitable result is loss of market. Loss of market begets unemployment. Performance of management should be measured by potential to stay in
Even More Tenets for Effective Product [Marketing] Management
Better Product Marketing Beats a Better Product
Inferior products that have dedicated and engaged Product Marketing people on the team will ALWAYS get more traction than better products that don’t.
It took me two startups and a lot of sleepless nights to realize this, but it’s true. It