EElevenAprilinelevenapril.hashnode.dev·Dec 7, 2025 · 3 min readWhy I Built a 'Three-No' App in the Age of SurveillanceRemember 2013? That was the year everyone installed those bright "Flashlight" apps. You just wanted to find your keys in the dark, but if you looked closely at the permissions, that little app was asking to read your Contact List, track your GPS Loca...00
EElevenAprilinelevenapril.hashnode.dev·Dec 6, 2025 · 3 min readFrom 'Sticky' to 'Sunny': Why My North Star Metric is Now Time Spent Off ScreenI started my career by optimizing for addiction. We didn't call it that, of course. We called it "Retention," "Daily Active Users (DAU)," and "Time Spent." We celebrated when users spent 40 minutes a day in our app. We high-fived when they opened it ...00
EElevenAprilinelevenapril.hashnode.dev·Dec 5, 2025 · 4 min readThe PM's Antidote: Stop Dreaming of Changing the World. Just Solve "The Grocery Run".If you stay in product management long enough, you catch a specific virus: "Change the World Syndrome." We preach disruptive innovation in our slides, justify billion-dollar TAMs in our weekly syncs, and sit in coffee shops scoffing at small tools fo...00
EElevenAprilinelevenapril.hashnode.dev·Dec 4, 2025 · 4 min readThe Courage to Disconnect: Why I Chose "Privacy First" in a Data-Hungry WorldWe've been sold a lie. A very convenient, very profitable lie. The lie is that for an app to be "smart," it needs to know everything about you. It needs to upload your habits to the cloud, analyze your sleep patterns with AI, and sync your deepest th...00
EElevenAprilinelevenapril.hashnode.dev·Dec 3, 2025 · 4 min readThe "Productivity Porn" Trap: Why Your 2025 Plan Needs Less Features and More "Death Awareness"We've all been there. It's late December. You're sitting in a coffee shop, armed with a fresh notebook or a blank Notion page. You feel a surge of dopamine as you type "2025 Goals." You are designing a new version of yourself. A version that wakes up...00
