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12 articlesMinimal UI Design Tutorial Part 3
How to design an elegant UI?
Nothing Matters Detector
These are all good things, but they have nothing to do with me.
UI Design Minimalist Tutorial Part 1
How to design an elegant UI?
What is the Innovator's Dilemma?
Large companies have more resources than small companies, so why can small companies sometimes defeat large ones? Large companies seem to win every battle, but why do they quickly lose the entire war?
DC/EP and Central Bank Digital Currency
DC/EP stands for Digital Currency Electronic Payment, a central bank digital currency. What problems does it aim to solve? What is its framework? How will it be promoted? What are the main technological means? To what extent does it protect privacy? What issues does blockchain face in this context? Why is cross-border payment not a priority?
Michael Porter's Five Forces Analysis Model
What are the main considerations for analyzing a company's competitive environment? New players, old players, what I buy, who buys from me, and other dimensions that can replace me. What is the essence of competitiveness? Irreplaceability, which is the uniqueness in high demand.
Technology Leadership Radar
Traditional engineering rubrics focus on specific areas, such as IC (software engineers, product managers, designers) or managers. Can we propose a unified framework to measure the business impact of technical workers?
BOZ Personal Growth Loops
Architects model the world in system thinking to optimize everything. As an engineer and businessman, I am continually working on the orchestration of work and life and maintain a high personal growth rate. Lessons learned are generalized to the BOZ growth loops.
How Dropbox Scales Its User Research
Dropbox's design research team grew from 4 members to 30+ today. How do they scale the efforts healthily, even when the headcount for the team is limited? More research usually means more harm if done improperly.
Building Personal Infrastructure
Why build personal infrastructure? And what are the strategies and executions to grow hobby projects? What is my current progress?
Druck's Seven Sources of Innovation and Four Innovation Strategies
Why do some people want to become entrepreneurs to make money? Because they want to beat the market by achieving returns that exceed the market at a cost lower than the market. The price exceeding the market comes from scarcity/uniqueness; to be unique, one must innovate, and entrepreneurs must be innovators. How to innovate? Drucker has the answer.
Routable: A Startup Solving Intercompany Payment Issues
The intercompany payment process is complex and requires integration with various systems, especially accounting software. Routable is dedicated to solving this problem for the middle market (companies with $100 million to $500 million in revenue). What sets Routable apart is that it helps you manage both workflows and the actual flow of money. Recently, startups focused on bill management have been gaining traction.
About Tian Pan
I'm Tian Pan, an engineer-founder focused on agentic engineering — building autonomous AI systems and scaling engineering teams. I write practical guides on system design, technical leadership, and shipping with AI agents. Previously an early engineer at Uber, Brex, and IoTeX.
