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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Minimum Viable Person

Minimum Viable Person

Barton, Akiel

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798253801130
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 26 2026
Pages: 418
Weight: 0.96
Height: 1.04 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
He didn't fight for his marriage. He scoped it.

When his wife asks for a separation, Joel Finch does what he's always done: he opens a new doc, defines the problem, and builds a sprint. He will optimize his way back to love-or at least to an acceptable retention rate.

The terrifying part? It works. Discovery interviews spark real conversation. Retrospectives unearth buried truths. For a few months, by every measurable metric, the marriage is better. Simone is softer. Joel is almost present. The roadmap is on track.

Then she finds the notebook.

Wickedly funny and quietly devastating, this novel skewers the productivity-obsessed, framework-addicted culture that has taught an entire generation to treat human beings like unsolved tickets in a backlog. But beneath the satire lives a genuinely urgent question: if the attention was real, the effort was real, and the results were real-does it matter that love was the deliverable?

A comedy about optimization. A tragedy about presence. An autopsy of a marriage conducted entirely in bullet points.

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