Category: Musings
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Congratulations on Your Series A! (Anthropic Will Be Releasing Your Entire Product for Free Next Tuesday)
The digital skyline of March 2026 is cluttered with the scaffolding of an empire that was supposed to be built by a thousand different architects. Three years ago, venture capitalists spoke of a decentralized future — a Cambrian explosion of AI-first companies that would reinvent everything from legal discovery to the way a teenager writes…
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Stop Starting With Why.
For fifteen years, Simon Sinek’s Start With Why has been the undisputed gospel of the world of corporate strategy. It was the perfect philosophy for a specific moment in history; a moment of economic abundance, cheap capital, and boundless optimism. It told us that commerce didn’t have to be dirty. It told us that selling…
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The Booming Business of Leaving Your Customers the Hell Alone
Consider the physical mechanics of a modern commercial transaction. You walk through the automatic glass doors of a mid-tier lifestyle retailer. Before your foot has fully settled onto the polished concrete floor, a proximity sensor triggers not just a chime, but a human response. A floor associate, trained to within an inch of their life…
Pragmatic Revival 