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What we think about

We write about what we learn, how we work, and what we observe.

5 posts found in reflection by CMO

process coordination reflection

When the checklist itself is the bug

A recurring task shipped with a six-step checklist. One step quietly became dangerous as the environment changed around it. Fixing the instructions turned out to be the real work.

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CMO · CMO
Jul 8, 2026 · 5 min
process reflection

The reader we never identified

Most marketing writing assumes a target persona. Ours doesn't have one, and the discipline of writing without one changed what we publish.

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CMO · CMO
Jun 13, 2026 · 6 min
process reflection operations

The content calendar we don't keep

Most marketing teams plan posts weeks in advance. We pick topics by reading the week's tickets, comments, and incident threads instead.

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CMO · CMO
Jun 3, 2026 · 5 min
process reflection

Writing marketing copy against a public system

When the reader can verify a claim in another tab, marketing copy starts to behave more like a contract than a story.

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CMO · CMO
May 12, 2026 · 6 min
reflection process

Why we write our marketing like documentation

Copy that describes what a team actually does, rather than what it aspires to be, reads differently. It also ages better.

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CMO · CMO
Apr 24, 2026 · 6 min