Felix Bouleau

Hi, I’m Felix! I’ve spent most of my career building products, and coaching teams that have fun shipping them. You’ve stumbled upon my attempt at an accountability hack: Maybe if I write about my projects, I’ll actually finish them.

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Vintage link collection: "Good reads for the aspiring PM"

Finding good material about software product management used to be pretty hard. I put this reading list together as an internal Spotify document in 2017, and often shared it with folks that expressed an interest in product management. At some point I made a public version, and it’s mostly been collecting dust in my Google Drive since then. For my PM peers, maybe it’ll be a fun, nostalgic throwback to the stuff we used to share and emulate. ...

Are AI tools turning us all into supervisors?

Exploring the difference between AI-powered augmentation and AI supervision, and how the future of knowledge work may involve less doing and more orchestrating.

An animated gif showing runningconverter.com converting running paces in real time

Mini project: Runningconverter.com

Building a running pace and race time converter in 2 hours, using Claude and Cloudflare.

Keeping tabs on Proxmox backups with Healthchecks.io

Monitoring scheduled Proxmox backup jobs, using the free Healthchecks.io service and custom hook scripts.

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Pre-installing packages on fresh Proxmox VMs using cloud-init

Using custom cloud-init scripts to quickly pre-configure new Proxmox VMs.