Ideas I want to write about
Speed isn’t just important, it is the moat. The ability to build, ship, learn, and adapt faster than everyone else is the only sustainable edge right now. In a world where everything is open source, everything is demo-able, and everything is one blog post away from being copied, speed is the only thing that compounds.
Clouded Judgement 5.30.25 - Moats in the Age of AI
Who does your business work for? If your only goal is profit, then it seems to serve only one group — the shareholders. But they’re only a part of the ecosystems your business belongs to.
Every company — big or small — serves six stakeholder groups:
And they’re all equally important.... See more
Every company — big or small — serves six stakeholder groups:
- Customers
- Employees
- Shareholders
- Business partners
- Society
- Regulators
And they’re all equally important.... See more
We Threw Out Our Bold Vision — and Only Then Did Growth Begin
To opt out, though, is to be excluded.
Adam Aleksic • how the algorithm keeps you under control
He believes that if you say it often enough and insistently enough it will come—a glorious revenge.
Tad Friend • The Mind of Marc Andreessen | The New Yorker
Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media - The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis
In Search of New Software Cultures
I will treat you with dignity, perhaps even kindness, but I am in no way interested in you.
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‘don’t be the best, be the only’
The [Tuesday] Media Diet with Anna Mackenzie
Why 84% of Enterprise Buyers Want a Live Demo Before Buying
Funnels Won’t Save You. Trust Networks Will
Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the sense or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind ... if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, [sic] it says... See more