Topic · CRAFT
Writing on craft
How the writing, editing, and design chapters before product management still shape how Saquif builds.
9 posts in this topic. See all writing.
- May 2026CRAFT8 min
Have we confused thinking with programming?
I passed a senior engineering interview last month and I still couldn't write a React calculator from scratch. The grammar of code is not the thinking of code, and a generation of Dhaka programmers, like a generation of Dhaka grammar-exam toppers, has been confusing the two for thirty years.
- May 2026CRAFT7 min
The coder who taught the model to ship.
Vibe coding is real but mis-described. The actual skill is the older one of reading a diff and saying which lines stay. Compiling is the floor a tabla apprentice clears in week one of riyaz. The ceiling is taste, learned the way the apprentice learns it, by being corrected on the same bol until the wrist stops cheating.
- Feb 2026CRAFT5 min
2 kinds of PMs: diagram-first vs document-first.
Two PMs face the same problem. One reaches for a whiteboard. The other reaches for Notion. The artifact you start with sets the ceiling on what you can ship.
- Nov 2025CRAFT1 min
What 'MVP' means by role.
Engineering's MVP. Design's MVP. Sales' MVP. Customer Success's MVP. The intersection is empty. The fights live in the circles.
- Oct 2025CRAFT12 min
Editing a literary magazine taught me product.
Notes from seven years running UNaB Magazine, Bangladesh's only writer-led literary publication, on what an editorial brain brings to product reviews. The roadmap is a table of contents. The sprint is an issue.
- Sep 2025CRAFT6 min
Tbh, Dhaka traffic is a distributed system.
Honking is gossip protocol. Right of way is consensus. The rickshaw is an unkillable daemon. The metaphor is real and it survives scrutiny.
- Jul 2025CRAFT6 min
What 'product sense' actually is.
Two words doing very different work. 'Product' is what to build. 'Sense' is how you know. Most of the people teaching it are teaching half.
- May 2025CRAFT6 min
Your feature has eight stakeholders.
The customer is the easy one. The auditor who replies in six weeks is harder. Past-you who wrote the PRD is the hardest of all.
- Apr 2025CRAFT5 min
Deprecation grief.
Five stages of killing a feature you loved. Denial, bargaining, metrics, graceful, archive. The middle one is the trap.