The AI Knowledge Work Stack
The Five Layers of Durable AI Leverage In the early 1400s, the city of Florence had a problem. The stunning Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral was complete but for one little problem: a 143-foot hole,
Taylor Pearson
As We May Work
In July 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, Vannevar Bush published an essay in The Atlantic Monthly that would set the trajectory for personal computing, hypertext, and the internet. Bush
Insurance Makes Wealth Grow Faster
The traditional view of insurance is that it is a “win-lose” proposition. There are three reasons that insurance would exist: Asymmetric information – one party knows something that the other
The Toyota Production System: A Love Letter
A supermarket is a magical place. It is a place where a customer can get: What they need. At the time they need it. In the amount they need it. Supermarkets must make certain that customers can buy
How to Use the Cynefin Framework to Make Better Decisions
Facebook’s motto for many years was “move fast and break things.” Regardless of one’s opinion on Facebook, it’s hard to argue that this wasn’t the strategically correct business decision:
The Four Levels of Organization
Do you ever feel like a different version of the same problem keeps happening over and over? That every time you think you’ve finally won the game of whack-a-mole, another mole pops up? One common
Company Culture & How It Can Be Worth $150 Million
After AirBnB closed out their Series C raising $200 million in a round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, the AirBnB team invited Thiel to the office. They took him into a conference room and had
Best Operations Management Books and Resources
One of the most impressive business achievements of the late 20th century was the ascendance of Toyota from non-existent in the 1960s to the dominant car company in the United States. What is
The St. Petersburg Paradox (AKA How to Not Pull a FTX)
Disclaimer: This is an ongoing story and I am not privy to any facts beyond what I read on the internet like everyone else, note this is all alleged activity and everything said here is strictly for
The Collison Decision Matrix: How to Make the Right Decision
We tend to focus a lot of energy on making “good” decisions. But I think it’s more important to think about making the right type of decision for the problem you are facing. Most “bad”
5 Philosophies of History
There is history: what happened, but there is also a broader question: how does history happen, what drives it? Over time, different philosophies of history come in and out of vogue and so you tend
The Physics of Kaizen: Why Prevention Deserves Credit
The Oil Crisis in the fall of 1973, followed by a recession, affected government, business, and society the world over. A period of general prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s in the wake of WW II had
