A long and enjoyable post about making excellent charts. “A good line graph is a fusion of right and left brain, of literacy and numeracy. Just numbers alone aren’t enough to explain the truth, but accurate numbers, represented truthfully, are […]
“For some reason … it’s a badge of honor in tech to shit on strategy.” This is a great counter to the position that execution is ee. “A strategy is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under […]
From the highly regarded Alex Iskold of 2048 Ventures. “The most important thing is to be 100% HONEST and SHARE THE PIE so you can BUILD AN AMAZING PRODUCT, then SELL IT and WIN BIG!” ~ learn more
These aren’t all the same recycled ones I’ve seen before. “If you’re looking for your good X, you have bad Xs. Throw those out.” ~ learn more
“Stupider games are not realizing that other people are playing different games. OpenAI is playing a different game. Capital agglomerators are playing different games. Chamath is playing a different game. One of the biggest obstacles to most of the systems […]
An excellent illustrative example from “The Secret CFO” about working capital’s impact on a growing business. I recently discovered this writer and am thoroughly impressed. ~ learn more
“Meadows started with the observation that there are levers, or places within a complex system (such as a firm, a city, an economy, a living being, an ecosystem, an ecoregion) where a “small shift in one thing can produce big […]
If you had a pool of 100 applicants for a secretary position, but had to hire or reject each applicant promptly after their interview, how many should you interview before making a hire? ~ learn more
“This happened to me recently. I admitted a truth that was probably obvious to everyone around me, but not to myself: I’m a writer. This sounds so obvious that it feels like it is a joke. I write a weekly […]
A story about consulting: “Whenever I arrive in a new context—a new client engagement or a new team in an ongoing gig—I seem to arrive right in the middle of something. A significant planning event, a technical design session for […]