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Vigil #2 • Product Engineering and Product Management are Consolidating

The garden where this fairy circle sprouts is now watered by an LLM. The veil is torn, sun parts the overcast.

Feb 23 • Michael Schofield

Lesson 90 • Efficiency Washing

True efficiency, in this sense, is about elevating the human element, not diminishing it.

Aug 10, 2025 • Michael Schofield

Lesson 89 • Design Systems that Survive Error

I’m pointing ahead at the storms and warning you — us — to batten down the hatches. You shouldn't feel certain about your tech job.

Apr 27, 2025 • Michael Schofield

Lesson 88 • Quit

We stack our resumes, we stack our bios, we stack accomplishments. Stoic Designer is a newsletter about cool-headed, practical thinking to help put the…

Feb 3, 2025 • Michael Schofield

Lesson 87 • Bright-side OS

What we need, instead, is permission to pause.

Jan 28, 2025 • Michael Schofield

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Scipio's Villa and the Product Over Time

Dec 9, 2019 • Michael Schofield

Lesson 78: Good Design Work does not mean Successful Product

Mar 18, 2021 • Michael Schofield

This is not the worst-case scenario.

Mar 16, 2020 • Michael Schofield

Fear of Missing Out

Oct 9, 2019 • Michael Schofield

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