Product orgs, reality, and vibes
A PM’s power is proportional to how close they are to the money.
David Demaree
Founder, Principal Design Engineer, and Lapsed Product Manager
I build web experiences & systems at Bits&Letters, the boutique digital agency I founded in 2024. Before B&L, for about a decade I led design-centric product teams at big companies including Google, Adobe, and Stripe, and before that I built websites and apps at agencies and in-house.
I’m a published author, international speaker, and TechCrunch once credited me with inventing the phrase “cognitive overhead.”
Latest additions to my blog
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Claude’s Walled Garden
Subscribers to Anthropic’s Claude subscription plans all received an email this morning, explaining some changes to how usage is metered and billed when third-party apps and scripts interact with Claude Code, which I’m quoting here almost in its entirety. Bolds/emphasis are mine. Starting June 15, Pro plan subscribers can claim a $20 monthly credit for…
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Bazzite is the Linux You Should Use
This post is for anyone who, like me, is curious about the whole Linux thing — especially the whole Linux-on-a-Framework-Laptop thing that’s in vogue among programmers — but don’t know where to start, and don’t know your Fedoras from your Arches. This is not meant to be a blanket statement about which Linux distro is…
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Electric Road Trip Acid Test
Notes from driving several hundred miles in an electric vehicle not made by the evil DOGE guy.