THE LIVING BOOK
From physical design to digital products, projects and enterprise portfolios.
Ideas, frameworks and field experience at the intersection of physical products, digital platforms, projects and enterprise portfolios — connecting an origin in industrial design to the discipline of building and running technology at scale.
Each chapter is published once, then revised in public as the argument develops. The living edition number reflects how much of the book exists today, not a final, closed work.
Part I · Understanding the Product — Chapter 1
Materials, tooling, cost and maintenance shape every physical object before it reaches a user. This opening chapter argues that leaders who learned to design for production ask better questions about architecture, data and operation.
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