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How Over-Engineering Creates Hidden Failure Points
Cloud & DevOps

How Over-Engineering Creates Hidden Failure Points

Ethan Cole February 1, 2026 4 min read 7 views

Over-engineering is rarely framed as a risk. It’s usually described as preparedness.Future-proofing.Scalability.“Doing things the right way.” But in practice, over-engineering often does the opposite of...

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Why We Build Fewer Features on Purpose
Software

Why We Build Fewer Features on Purpose

Ethan Cole Feb 1 4 min

In most product teams, shipping more features is treated as progress. Roadmaps grow.Release notes get longer.Dashboards fill up with usage...

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Most Products Don’t Respect Users — They Manage Them
Software

Most Products Don’t Respect Users — They Manage Them

Ethan Cole Jan 31 4 min

Most digital products claim to be “user-centric.” They talk about empathy.They optimize for experience.They promise to “put users first.” And...

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Why App Retention Metrics Encourage Dark Patterns
Mobile & Apps

Why App Retention Metrics Encourage Dark Patterns

Ethan Cole Jan 31 4 min

Retention metrics are everywhere in mobile product dashboards: DAU/MAU ratios, weekly stickiness, time-in-app statistics. They’re easy to measure, easy to...

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Designing for Exit Instead of Retention
Software

Designing for Exit Instead of Retention

Ethan Cole Jan 31 4 min

Most digital products obsess over retention. Teams celebrate longer session times,dashboards praise week-over-week rise in returning users,roadmaps prioritize features that...

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Transparency Is Not the Same as Accountability
Software

Transparency Is Not the Same as Accountability

Ethan Cole Jan 30 3 min

Transparency has become a buzzword. Every company publishes a “transparency report” these days.Every policy update includes a paragraph about being...

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Why “Trustworthy AI” Fails Without Structural Limits
AI & ML

Why “Trustworthy AI” Fails Without Structural Limits

Ethan Cole Jan 30 4 min

“Trustworthy AI” sounds reassuring.It suggests systems that are fair, explainable, and aligned with human values. The problem is that most...

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