I USED TO BE FUNNY.
NOW I WORK IN TECH.
$ whoami --stats
Lauren Morris
├── Stories Worth Telling: ∞
├── Coffee Dependency: 86%
├── Chaos Embracing: 100%
├── Local AI Models: several
├── MLIS Degrees: 1 (niche, useful)
└── Career Path: 301 → Better
Most people followed the traditional product management path. I carved my own. Turns out reading a room transfers directly to user research. Pivoting when a scene bombs transfers to shipping fast and iterating. Getting people to say “yes, and” rather than argue about edge cases? That's just stakeholder management with better energy.
The Library Science degree taught me information architecture before it had that name. The improv theater taught me to facilitate without needing to control everything.
And yes, one of my greatest parenting accomplishments still stands: I taught my kids to spell using only curse words.
Reading a room transfers directly to user research.
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Building an AI product portfolio from scratch — privacy-first, open-source, across three continents.
WITHOUT THE HYPE
I write about actually using AI without the hype — plain English, every other Sunday.
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