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All you can do is play the game

I don’t know what’s coming next.

Nov 14

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October 2025

A strange delight

We are more machine now than man, and it's better if we remember that.

Oct 31

35

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An very obvious deal

Shopping for the Data Stack Value Realization methodology.

Oct 24

38

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In the air

Now what?

Oct 17

42

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Something in the orange

A last exit.

Oct 3

57

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September 2025

We were hired to do the grunt work

If solving strategic problems is the more valuable thing to do, why aren't we doing it?

Sep 26

72

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Is the innovator's dilemma outdated?

What's a platform and what's a product? Plus, what's a fad and what's fundamental? And finally, what?

Sep 19

33

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It is the internet

And it is tearing us apart.

Sep 12

57

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Stuff costs money

The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?

Sep 5

42

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August 2025

The context layer

It didn’t work for us before…but it might work for us now.

Aug 29

46

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Outdated

At this speed, the math breaks down. Plus, uh, cannibalism?

Aug 22

30

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Ban ChatGPT*

*Not GPT, but chat? And not yet, but when?

Aug 15

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