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This is where I write about starting, scaling, and occasionally winding down businesses. Strategy, growth, the decisions that don't show up in the case studies. Not a newsletter. Not a content calendar. Just thinking, done in public.
Growth & Scaling
The best salesperson on a support team is often already selling inside the tickets, and nobody notices because the org chart never asked. Here's what happened once we mapped the bridge on purpose.
Read Article →Creative Thinking & Problem Solving
A car elevator with a foot of clearance and zero flexibility taught me two things: how to actually solve a fixed constraint, and why judging a decision by its worst ninety seconds is the wrong math.
Read Article →Strategy
A $0 AI-generated website exists. It loads. It can look decent. The problem is what that comparison treats as equivalent.
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Referrals feel like the gold standard until you realize they carry whatever story your customers have in their heads. Most of the time, that story is incomplete.
Read Article →Growth & Scaling
High-performing teams don't lose money on bad work. They lose it on effort the client never asked for, never noticed, and would never pay for.
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Most brands treat marketing like a tap they control. Rolex treats it like plumbing. One of those approaches builds a waitlist. The other manages one.
Read Article →Creative Thinking & Problem Solving
Creative thinking isn't a talent you're born with. It's a skill you build by refusing to accept the first path you see.
Read Article →Growth & Scaling
Growth is the goal until it isn't. Here's what happens when you scale faster than your business can actually handle.
Read Article →Failures & Lessons Learned
Failure isn't just an inevitable part of business. It's one of the most useful tools you have, if you know how to use it.
Read Article →Strategy
The best plan you've ever built will eventually meet a market that didn't get the memo. Here's how to build a strategy that holds up anyway.
Read Article →Scribbles
Every blog starts somewhere. This one starts with twenty years of being inside the problem and a few things worth saying about what that actually looks like.
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