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
- output vs. outcomes
- product as a portfolio of bets
- reduce uncertainty, not scope
- no heroes, no blame
- rituals serve results
- pm as anthropologist, not ceo
- discovery is a practice, not a phase
- roadmap as conversation, not contract
- leading without title
- 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.