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Learning to Sit With Not-Knowing

16 Sep 2026 5 min read product · series · complexity · wardley · mapping · fog · grey · reflection

A stakeholder wants the direction, engineering wants the estimate, and the honest answer is that we have not seen enough to know yet. How to sit with genuine not-knowing long enough to decide well, without faking certainty to fill the silence.

Product Decisions in the Grey Zone

11 Sep 2026 7 min read product · series · complexity · wardley · mapping · fog · grey · practice

When prioritisation turns ambiguous, a scoring spreadsheet hands back false certainty. Here is how to tell genuinely complex decisions from merely complicated ones, and how to decide your way to information in the grey zone.