Other people’s projects
This week I’ve seen three friends. One talked to me about their drop-shipping startup and his woes with Romanian e-commerce. Another one has a supplement production facility and talked to me about his...
View ArticleOrchestration of the world
The political spectacle of this year is in full force. So many elections on the same topics that say nothing about problems and all about manipulating people to agree on made up problems. With Trump...
View ArticleA world has ended. Welcome to the new world pioneers!
We live in the ruins of the 1st networks. Facebook, X, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok are the modern equivalent of ancient giant architecture that sank civilisations. They are the 1st networks. They did...
View ArticleTurn right! The other right!
Ukraine is the cause of the swift dismissal of progressivism not gender theory! Trumpism won because Ukraine lost. The true failure of unbridled left of the last decades is rooted in its...
View ArticleEffortless caring
The way forward has always been to ignore the perils and keep pushing. The current meme saying “if we only knew, we’d never have started” is a symptom of this.
View ArticleWhat does it mean to be customer centric?
Being customer centric means to internalize, to believe faithfully, that your money comes from real people who are genuinely helped by your work. It’s very hard to be customer centric! We have...
View ArticleThe customer is always right
I’ve posted in the past about what it means to be customer-centric. This is about a related, but more wide reaching topic. I am sure y’all have heard this a gazillion times before: “the customer is...
View ArticleHistory is the story of our general psychosis
“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.” G.K. Chesterton One million years ago, nature made an absurd wager: that a large...
View ArticleFlavor Profiles
They didn’t fake the money. That was important. They built things. Start-ups. Battery co-ops, carbon offsets, urban mushroom farms. Real businesses. They paid Earth taxes. They issued payrolls. Filed...
View ArticleYOLO is for monks
The people who shout “you only live once” the loudest are the ones acting as if they don’t believe it. They gamble, binge, burn themselves out, chase hollow thrills—living as if there’s some cosmic...
View ArticleInformal Upright
Democracy worked. Not works, worked. Because that’s the fate of all complex systems: they demand more and more complication to function until no one can hold them end to end. Take physics. Any person...
View ArticleHow “Be the Dumbest in the Room” Makes Everyone Dumber
We’ve all heard the advice: “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” It sounds noble, almost like wisdom: surround yourself with brighter people, absorb their brilliance,...
View ArticleMatching Product Strategy to Innovation Stage
Matching Product Strategy to Innovation Stage Product theory is full of competing commandments. “Build an MVP.” “Cross the chasm.” “Disrupt yourself.” “Bundle or unbundle.” Product managers, founders,...
View ArticleInflation Comes From Worthlessness
Inflation is more than numbers on a graph. It’s the signal that money itself is rotting. The bills in your pocket shrink in power not only because of “policy” or “markets,” but because what they buy...
View ArticleImbalance
Work–life balance leaves no room for civic life. In chasing equilibrium, we outsourced the public to the private, expecting some magical force to handle what we no longer have time for. Those who...
View ArticleProjections
When I left my old job, I had two options:go work somewhere else, or team up with someone for a start-up.I chose the first. Somewhere else.Some time later I ran into my former boss. Smiling, curious,...
View ArticleFree market rolls!
There are two kinds of supermarket shelves: the dead ones (salt), and the ones that look like a minor religion formed around them (toilet paper). There is a rush to differentiate toilet paper brands....
View ArticlePeople regret more what they didn’t do than what they did
This sentence is bullshit. Weaponized bullshit. Yet, repeated ad nauseam. People regret more what they didn’t do, than what they did? Oh, hell no. Generally, people don’t avoid doing things because...
View ArticleHisohiso
In this day and age with prompt to code being twenty a month, writing about your side project is like the old meme “let me sing you the song of my people”. So, yea, let me tell you about my side...
View ArticleMaybe
Kyoto, Paris, Seoul. Three photos hung in whatever order looked good, and a museum of Asian art hiding in the middle one for months before I noticed.
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