The Simple Sabotage Field Manual: Rewritten for Corporate Product Life

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A satirical rewrite of the WWII Simple Sabotage Field Manual for modern product teams, showing how meetings, alignment, metrics, and best practices ship nothing
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In 1944, the OSS published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual to show how small, “reasonable” actions could quietly slow hostile organizations. Modern product teams don’t need the manual — we’ve reinvented it through best practices. Meetings, alignment, metrics, edge cases, Jira hygiene, and last-minute ML pivots often combine into a system that looks professional but resists shipping. No one is sabotaging anything on purpose. The role is rotational — and sometimes, it’s you.