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https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter/you-are-not-your-user · 7 May 2026
You are not your user. Except when you are. This is a story about how I learned to be a better user of my own product.
https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter/lessons-i-learned-the-hard-way · 17 Mar 2026
Your brain rewires itself based on what you practice. If you stop practicing hard things, you slowly lose the ability to do them.
https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter/learn-to-love-the-rebuild · 17 Feb 2026
Refactoring isn't a necessary evil -- it is the job. Why the best product teams rebuild constantly, at every scale.
https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter/just-enough-is-an-ongoing-practice · 10 Feb 2026
Stable products still need maintenance. Defaults and shiny features quietly tax systems over time, and efficiency is a sign of craftsmanship, not penny-pinching.
https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter/zeroth-loop-they-dont-quit-they-forget · 6 Jan 2026
Most habits don't fall apart because people quit. They fall apart because they aren't sticky.
https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter/mirror-effect-cognition-behavioral-science · 2 Dec 2025
The best product ideas hide in plain sight, in your habits and everyone else's. Watch what people actually do, not what they say they want. Build for that.
https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter/nudge-theory-for-guiding-user-behavior · 25 Nov 2025
Every message is a moment of influence. Make the nudge helpful and you'll create power users and build loyalty.
https://build.ms/2025/10/30/ai-workshops-launch/ · 30 Oct 2025
Six months teaching people to build with AI taught me one thing: most people are just a few questions away from learning so much.
https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter/ai-and-human-centered-design · 2 Oct 2025
Software has always required people to think like a computer. AI flips it on its head: people expect computers to work the way they think.
https://mikebifulco.com/newsletter/dieter-rams-10-principles-of-design · 23 Sep 2025
Good design is good design, no matter what you're building.