One of the big things I’ve learned over the last decade or so as a product manager and leader is that principles eat process for breakfast. You can write all the standard operating procedures you want, but if you don’t have a strong ethos about how you work then you’ll struggle to build innovative products that have lasting impact.

MVP is such a misused term in product development that it’s now almost useless. In many organisations, it describes the initial version of a product that can be launched within a specific budget or a set timescale. But that really misses the point of what an MVP is all about.

Blogging pioneer Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, turned 30 the other day which got me thinking (even more than I have been recently) about my own online writing journey. Like a lot of people, I started writing online with Blogger and Wordpress (when you had to run it off a thumb drive), but was soon swayed by the promise of social media.

There was a post on Farcaster recently talking about the movie Dazed & Confused and the time difference between when it was set and when it was released.

I've just spent two weeks on holiday with my wife and children which was the first time I'd fully disconnected from social and news media for the best part of a decade.

Social media has devolved into an ego-boosting playground. We’ve traded meaningful connections for retweets, likes, and the illusive promise of going viral.