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# Deliberate — creator roadmap

A weekly newsletter and occasional podcast on product decisions. 3,400 subscribers. Updated publicly.

## Newsletter — May 2026

- [x] Issue 88: Why your roadmap is a political document · 2026-05-06
- [x] Issue 89: The refusal as a design tool · 2026-05-13
- [/] Issue 90: Stakeholder communication without slides · 2026-05-20
- Issue 91: Scope creep is a leadership failure, not a planning failure · 2026-05-27

## Newsletter — June 2026

- The case for a public no-list · 2026-06-03
- When estimation is theater · 2026-06-10
- One-person roadmaps vs. committee documents · 2026-06-17
- Summer break — no issue · 2026-06-24

## Podcast

### In production
- [/] Ep. 14: Interview with a PM who stopped using Jira entirely · 2026-05-22
- Ep. 15: The product spec nobody reads · 2026-06-05

### Planned
- Ep. 16: Changelog as narrative — what shipped and why it matters · 2026-06-19
- Ep. 17: Saying no at the roadmap level vs. the feature level · 2026-07-03

## Course — "Roadmap Writing for Solo Founders"

- [x] Outline drafted — 6 modules, 18 lessons
- [x] Module 1 recorded: what a roadmap is for
- [/] Module 2 recording: writing the markdown source · 2026-06-01
- Module 3: statuses, kinds, and refusals · 2026-06-15
- Launch: course available to newsletter subscribers first · 2026-07-01

## Blocked

- [!] Podcast episode 14 — guest recording had background noise; re-recording scheduled 2026-05-21

## Refused

- [-] YouTube channel — the format I care about is text; video production is a full job and I already have one
- [-] Community / Discord — I've seen what moderating a community does to the creative output of people who do both; I'm not doing both
- [-] Paid newsletter tier — the business model here is the course and consulting, not a subscription; keeping the newsletter free is a distribution decision, not a pricing mistake