Topic

User Behavior

Essays about interpretation, adoption, identity, meaning, and the human behavior patterns product teams need to understand more clearly.

Teaching Leadership: What 120 First-Years Taught Me

Leadership became legible through how people learn, grow, and respond to discomfort together.

Essay · Dec 2025

People often resist products because of social risk, not because the product lacks utility.

Essay · Apr 2026

Behavior shaping product outcomes often starts before teams begin measuring the funnel.

Essay · Apr 2026

Many product models assume a user detached from the social world that shapes behavior.

Essay · Apr 2026

Social meaning breaks when products erase the boundaries people rely on to interpret audiences.

Essay · Apr 2026

Ratings govern not only outcomes, but the behavior and emotional performance people feel pressured to produce.

Essay · Apr 2026

Compressed user models make behavior look simpler and cleaner than it really is.

Essay · Apr 2026

Tasks make more sense when the social structure around them is part of the explanation.

Essay · Apr 2026

People bring interpretation to products. Meaning emerges in context rather than being fully prescribed.

Essay · Apr 2026

Social distance changes how people coordinate, interpret risk, and decide what kind of interaction is possible.

Essay · Apr 2026