Ideas
Essays
Long-form essays on running and scaling a company. If it is here, it earned the space.
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The Race We Don’t Want to Win
For the first time in nearly three decades, I cannot find a durable, defendable position for a company to win over time. Here is…
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You Have 40 People Around You and Zero Peers
The top is not lonely because you are alone. It is lonely because nobody near you carries the same weight. What the unsaid question…
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Why Your Smartest Leader Can’t Build the Playbook
Bloom’s taxonomy explains the gap between analyzing a problem and creating the playbook that solves it. These are modes of work a role demands,…
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How to Never Be Micromanaged Again
Micromanagement is usually a trust problem, and the roadmap out has three steps that start with you. Plus the honest flip side: when the…
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The BBQ Test
A gut-check for idea-stage founders: could a friend describe your business in two sentences at a BBQ, and would people lean in? If not,…
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What the Last Bite Tells You
How people treat the last bite of a shared plate reveals attention and group awareness. Not a hiring test: a lens for how your…