the book

Manual of Digital Ataraxy: Unshaken Amid the Scrum Circus

2025

I wrote Manual of Digital Ataraxy: Unshaken Amid the Scrum Circus — a book about surviving modern product management without losing your mind or your standards. It's equal parts operational manual and philosophical argument against the cargo cult of process for process's sake.

A book on navigating the noise of modern product management with philosophical calm and operational clarity.

The 10 principles

  1. output vs. outcomes
  2. product as a portfolio of bets
  3. reduce uncertainty, not scope
  4. no heroes, no blame
  5. rituals serve results
  6. pm as anthropologist, not ceo
  7. discovery is a practice, not a phase
  8. roadmap as conversation, not contract
  9. leading without title
  10. cultural signals are delivery

From the book to the repo

operator-skills is the operational expression of manual de ataraxia digital. the book describes the philosophy; the repo makes it executable.

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