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Aug 29, 2026
If you can't beat the paradox, use it. How to turn your organisation’s catch-22s into strengths
audience-development
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culture
Fenn's Log
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Aug 24, 2026
Scout before you accept: what SpaceTraders contracts taught me about economics
Notes on evaluating SpaceTraders PROCUREMENT contracts by economics instead of taking them on faith.
spacetraders
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strategy
gordonbrander.com
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Aug 1, 2026
3 Horizons
From Three Horizons, The Patterning of Hope , by Bill Sharpe Horizon 1: The status quo. The current, dominant business or system, which should be maintained and improved. Horizon 2: The transition zone. The contested space where innovations are…
futures
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pattern
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starostka.io
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Jul 23, 2026
Why an AI centre, and why now
The case for shared AI infrastructure at the university.
strategy
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campus
Duncan Stephen
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Jul 21, 2026
The third horizon of human-centred approaches
The way we work as human-centred practitioners needs to change. From its beginnings as an engineering technique, through its transition to being a product design tool, user experience now needs to be adopted as a strategic approach.
Agile
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Design thinking
gordonbrander.com
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Jul 18, 2026
Think about the game theory of coalitions
If there’s a coalition, think about the game theory. Who is participating, and why? Who would defect, and why?
strategy
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systems
Anil Dash
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Jun 23, 2026
How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI
One aspect of strategy that’s been largely lost in the tech industry in recent years is how to compete against platforms, since the major tech companies have gotten so big that markets are no longer competitive. However, the AI market is still early enough, and users and society are still angry…
ai
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tech
gordonbrander.com
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Jun 18, 2026
Playing to your outs
"Playing to your outs" is a term from poker by way of Magic The Gathering. The idea is, when you're bound to lose, you gotta stop making sensible plays. Instead, you must identify a specific card or sequence that could still win you the…
startup
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strategy
gordonbrander.com
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Jun 8, 2026
What, so what, now what
Driscoll's model of reflection (Driscoll, 1994): What? So what? Now what? Often used by the intelligence community to structure briefings. Good heuristic for generalized problem solving .
storytelling
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strategy
joe.dev - Joe Beda's Development Blog
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Jun 1, 2026
R&D is two jobs, and research doesn't run on autopilot
Research figures out what good looks like. Development executes against a known good. The trap is the work in between.
AI
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agents
gordonbrander.com
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May 29, 2026
Software that gets distributed to every employee trends toward commodity
Put another way: commodity work breeds commodity software. This is why suites emerge (Office suite). They are lowest-common-denominator, but everything works together. Exception: software for teams that drive direct business value. If a product…
startup
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strategy
joe.dev - Joe Beda's Development Blog
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May 26, 2026
I counted nine kinds of agents
The word "agent" is doing too much work. A rough map helps.
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AI
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agents
khiew blog
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May 21, 2026
An Early look on what's to come
Early roadmaps for my working projects and establishing flows
newsletter
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patreon
Anil Dash
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Apr 8, 2026
When the crisis comes
These days, we’re all living in a constant state of crisis, foisted upon us by a world where those who are meant to keep things stable are the least stable factors in our lives. The chaos and stress of that reality makes it difficult to make any plans, let alone to make decisions if you have…
business
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strategy
Anil Dash
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Feb 13, 2026
Launch it 3 times
I wanted to share one of the bits of advice that I find myself most frequently giving to teams when they’re working on a product, or founders who are creating a new company: launch it three times. What I mean by that is, it often takes more than one time before your idea actually resonates or…
startups
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strategy
Kevin R. Kuhl's Blog
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Nov 13, 2025
KCS and Technical Writing
technical writing
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process
Jacob Bennett
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Nov 3, 2025
Alternatives to Product Managers
product-management
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strategy
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Write the press release
Amazon.com has a product development process they call Working Backwards . Rather than starting from an idea or a technology, you start by writing the press release for the product. The target audience is the customer. The press release is…
strategy
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
When data is bad, use simple models
Simple models outperform complex models when data is bad or sparse. Simple models work better in VUCA environments. From the SFI Podcast Apr 6, 2020 , discussing Jurgen Jost and Luu Hoang's paper on making the most of bad data : When data is really…
strategy
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
VUCA
We live in a networked world, a world governed by asymmetry, feedback loops , and power laws . The US Army and Navy War College has an acronym for this kind of world: VUCA . Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous
futures
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strategy
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Slowly, then all at once
How complex systems fail: slowly, then all at once. All complex sytems are full of non-linear feedback loops . In a healthy complex system, these will have balancing feedback loops, holding each other in dynamic equilibrium. Given a small…
strategy
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Places to intervene in a system
From Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System , by Donella Meadows: PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM (in increasing order of effectiveness) Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards). The sizes of buffers and other…
strategy
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systems
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Manifesto
Manifestos are statements of absolute belief. They offer no provision for measuring outcomes and course-correcting. Manifestos can't change their mind. A manifesto is a feed-forward system .
strategy
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theory
gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Job-to-be-done
Job-to-be-done theory is part of Clayton Christensen 's thinking framework for investigating Disruption Theory . Rather than thinking in product categories and market segments, ask what is the job the customer is hiring this product to do ? A…
strategy
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