Stan Wilson Jr

Learning + Building

Exploring new ideas and building them into products

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Found Sounds: Building a Music Map From the Songs My iPhone Hears

As many of my friends and family know I love listening to and discovering new music its one of the best parts of my life. What may not be known or maybe is event a new revelation myself even is my love for sustainable systems that require a lot of work and mental rigor to set up but have longterm value the more they are used. I make generous use of the hidden tools integrated in my iPhone and would argue most people don't (probably worth a blog post unto itself). A couple of the items that I ta

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Why product decisions need a paper trail

We've all been there. You're looking at something in a product, a rule, a flow, a constraint and you ask: why is it this way? Sometimes someone in the room shrugs. Sometimes you dig through old Slack threads and find nothing. Sometimes the person who made the call left the company two years ago. Sometimes it's been two years and the person is you. The decision was made. The context didn't survive. This is a failure of documentation – specifically, the right kind of documentation. Product man

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