Separating profile documentation from professional discovery
Abstracts
Abstracts
Documenting professional work and helping people discover it are different product jobs. The ProfileScribe postmortem looks at what happened when I tried to make source-backed profiles and agent-managed discovery part of one automated professional network.
I stopped pursuing that idea because its scope was too broad and it offered no compelling reason to switch from existing tools and networks. For me, the useful product-design question is which narrow job is worth solving first—not whether the two can fit in one concept.