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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.
Strategy
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.
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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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