While Others Compete, Own Your Corner
Competition can become a race to the bottom. The key is to find organizations whose products or services are hard to copy, difficult to replace, and more valuable the longer customers use them.
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The P385 Inherits SIG's Trust Debt
A new pistol doesn't reset a reputation. SIG's P385 may prove a very good pistol, but it enters a market that remembers the P320. What SIG needs now is customers who believe it will tell them early, protect them first, and fix it completely.
Random Reflections on What's on Your Plate and Why Founders Are Born
Notes on Cal Newport, pseudo-productivity, and Lucas Botkin walking away from T.REX ARMS.
Notes on Killing a Product That Isn't Losing Money
The products most worth closing often aren't losing money. They're taxing your people, focus, and core. A five-part framework for deciding what to stop.
Problem Solvers, Not Problem Pointers
Are you an asset to the organization when problems arise?
Nobody Can Learn AI for You
AI isn't a corporate initiative. It's a personal skill every executive has to build, and nobody can do it for you.
Deal Makers and Deal Breakers
Their role is to flag every risk. Yours is to decide which ones to take.
On Founders and Operators
The skills that start a company are not the skills that scale it.
Revenue Ain't Shit
Revenue is easy to flaunt. Profit is harder to explain — and that's exactly why most gurus won't talk about it.
"Please Let Me Know Your Thoughts"
Most workplace communication fails not because of the tools — but because of how we use them. "Let me know your thoughts" is not a close. It's a postponement.
The Problem Solver's Trap
You know you're a problem solver when your bosses stop going to your peers and make you the de facto person for almost everything. This is a two-edged sword—and why organizational fit matters more than you think.
AI Didn't Take Your Job—Bad Business Did
The next time an expert tells you AI is taking all the jobs, remember this: it's far more likely the economy is struggling and businesses are bleeding out. We'd all rather be told it's about technological advancement than face the reality of poor management and a stagnant economy.