morgan

about me:

• I work as a product owner.
• I'm studying Philosophy part-time. Primarily interested in normative ethics and metaphysics (specifically identity) atm. Also interested in philosophy of technology.
• Previously, I worked for Shepper, Paysafe, and was the founding product manager at Roboteer.
• I've worked in sales, ops, development, business analysis and product management roles in software companies. This is quite a rare mix.
• I learnt to code before LLM's were a thing and my code is in production. Skilled in python, AWS, serverless architectures and IAC (terraform, cloudformation).
• I am very passionate about free software and am actively contributing to open source projects in the python ecosystem. Please contact me if you have an open source project that I might be able to contribute to.
• I used to compete in powerlifting and am a national champion in equipped (warning: volume) bench press.
• Here is my take on agile stuff.

now:

• what is a now page/section?
• Last updated 15th May 2026.
• Passed the Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate exam.
• Reading The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau.
• I'm reading more of Extreme Programming (XP)'s website. I find it to be like the last bastion of proper agile, before the others started to try and sell us stuff.
• Slightly obsessed with Sans Beanstalk.

writing:

• What I learnt marketing software to consumers.
• Reading things a little slower is a very good thing (for me).
• Why deploying multiple times a week isn't a panacea.
• User stories are not for requirements.

interesting things:

• Bullshit jobs. (7 min)
• The E-Myth by Michael E. Gerber.
• Sync up and circle back. (2 min)
• You aren't gnna need it. (5 min)
• Is high quality software worth the cost? (5 min)
• It's not worth trying to measure dev productivity. (5 min)
• Trolley problem memes. (20 min)