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# Notes and essays.

Writing on systems, product work, and how structure changes outcomes.

## Featured

### [A Future Worth Wanting](https://drewlittrell.com/writing/a-future-worth-wanting)

The hopeful vision for the AI age is not mass idleness or elite abundance. It is a society with more dignity, more ownership, more time, and more room for human beings to be human.

_Featured essay series_

## Essays

### [Before the First Screen](https://drewlittrell.com/writing/before-the-first-screen)

Product Schema Mapping is a product discovery method that extends user story mapping below actions, into the questions users must answer and the information they need to answer them. The output is a product schema — the shape of the problem a product must serve.

_Essay_

### [What AI Makes Buildable](https://drewlittrell.com/writing/what-ai-makes-buildable)

Cheap intelligence does not just automate tasks. It changes which organizations and systems are feasible.

_Essay Series_

### [The Transition Is Not the Destination](https://drewlittrell.com/writing/the-transition-is-not-the-destination)

AI is a general-purpose coordination technology. When coordination becomes cheap, the structures built around expensive coordination begin to wobble.

_Essay Series_