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The Product Management Reading List

(Last updated: 2022.02.22) Over the course of the last few months as we've revamped the product management department at Pager, I've found myself sharing a number of product management guides to the broader team to help them think through and understand what product management is. Anyone considering a

Compiling Ghost Themes (If Your CSS Isn't Updating)

When I started fooling around Ghost theme development, I ran into a problem: my CSS wasn't updating. Turns out some Ghost themes compile their CSS via Gulp. Here's how to work with it.

Notes on Using the Mac Terminal

Because I have a bad memory and find myself constantly looking things up: cd – Enter a directory. cd - – Go back cd ~ – Go to home cp – copy ls – list whatever is in the directory ls -ltrw – list whatever is in the directory with options sudo – run as admin (“super user

Designing Products and Businesses: The Stack Fallacy

I recently came across a fascinating idea in Anshu Sharma's "Stack Fallacy" article (2016): Stack fallacy is the mistaken belief that it is trivial to build the layer above yours. As an example in the software world: Very few people will imagine they can build a computer chip just because

The 95% Guide to Optimizing Your Website's Performance

Site optimization is important and if you're reading this post, I assume we're on the same page with why. So here's a 95%-of-the-way-there, non-technical guide to optimizing your site for speed and performance.

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