What nature teaches us about product distribution
Building software is easier. Distribution remains hard. What seeds, bees and shared incentives can teach us about helping products spread.
Read postA different way to examine familiar problems
Before choosing a solution, examine the explanation. Writing on the assumptions, overlooked connections and practical questions that can change how we approach work.
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How Products Found Their Customers — 01 Dropbox
Dropbox rewarded referrals with more of what customers already valued: storage. The lesson is to make discovery valuable for everyone involved.
Read postWhen AI becomes the explanation for everything
AI is changing work. But when it becomes the explanation for everything, we risk overlooking policy, economics, governance and human responsibility.
Read postBefore buying an AI tool, examine why the task exists
A faster task is useful only when the task still serves a useful purpose.
Read postWhen everyone is busy, look at the unfinished work
Activity alone cannot tell you where progress is getting stuck.
Read postTraining needs a place to become practice
Course completion is a starting point for examining capability, not the final measure.
Read postDelivery Reporting Should Make the Next Decision Easier
A practical test for whether project reporting is helping leaders act or simply documenting activity.
Read postMake Sales Commitments Survive the Handover to Delivery
A simple way to expose assumptions, dependencies and ownership before a proposal becomes a delivery problem.
Read postChoose the AI Use Case Before Choosing the Tool
A disciplined way to test whether an AI idea solves a useful problem and can be adopted responsibly.
Read postPractical Learning Should Reveal What a Student Understands
Why application, explanation and revision can show more than completion alone.
Read postThe Seniority Trap: When Experience Needs a Different Role
Why structural change can place pressure on experienced specialists and managers, and what to examine next.
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