Operating by John Brewton
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Chat
Operating Week Ahead
Collaborations & Guest Authors
Operating Economics
Operating 101
Operating History
AI Upskilling Playbook
Archive
Leaderboard
About
Operating by Warren & Charlie
The Operating by John Brewton Black Friday Post: Dissecting Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger's approach to operating as described by four of their…
Nov 28
•
John Brewton
24
14
10
Operating Economics: The Optimization Company
Amazon’s Triumphant Operational Reckoning: What Two Years of Earnings Reveal About the Next Corporate Model
Oct 29
•
John Brewton
18
8
22
Operating Economics: Building Antifragile Companies
A Practical Operating System for Uncertainty From the Brilliant Mind of Nassim Taleb
Oct 8
•
John Brewton
39
13
Most Popular
View all
Start With The Work, Not The Why
Sep 11
•
John Brewton
29
15
18
The Compounding Effect of Boring AI
Sep 20
•
John Brewton
28
12
11
The Problem of AI-Transformation For Large Companies
Aug 24
•
John Brewton
26
4
21
Build or Be Left Behind
Sep 29
•
John Brewton
and
Brennan McDonald
25
7
11
Orchestrator or Utility?
Sep 27
•
John Brewton
24
6
8
Operating Economics: 10 Concepts from Google’s Economist to Help You Build a Better Company
Oct 2
•
John Brewton
24
9
AI Upskilling Playbook
View all
The Ultimate Upskilling Playbook (Pillar 2): The Human Capabilities That AI Makes Matter Most
Why Emotional Intelligence, Presence, Opinion, Creativity, and Hope Are More Valuable Now Than Ever
Dec 19
•
John Brewton
28
21
7
Upskilling Masterclass: From Prompt User to Workflow Architect
Operating by John Brewton: The Ultimate Operating Upskilling Guide (Week 2)
Dec 13
•
John Brewton
25
10
5
The Ultimate Upskilling Playbook: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Building AI-Era Career Resilience
Most professionals are building AI skills wrong. Here is the research-backed framework and 90-day roadmap that actually works.
Dec 4
•
John Brewton
23
20
9
The Ultimate Upskilling Playbook: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Building AI-Era Career Resilience
A comprehensive, actionable workbook with frameworks, assessments, practical exercises, and templates for mastering the Three Pillars of AI-era success
Nov 20
•
John Brewton
22
19
7
The AI Skills Crisis Isn’t What You Think
Why 87% of Companies Fail at AI and How the Other 13% Win
Nov 19
•
John Brewton
23
27
10
Thank you for reading! Become a subscriber to start reading more from the only newsletter you need to become an elite operator.
Subscribe
Operating Economics
View all
The Story of Black Friday and Cyber Monday: How Amazon, Walmart, Target & Best Buy Turned the Annual Retail Extravaganza Into Their…
From a Philadelphia traffic problem to a 129-country operating system that reshapes how companies think about infrastructure.
Nov 29
•
John Brewton
17
8
6
The Future of Companies: How Large Enterprises Are Evolving Beyond the Corporate Job
The Enterprise Adoption of the Gig, Creator and Contractor Economies
Nov 25
•
John Brewton
26
14
10
The Operating System: How Three Decades Rewrote the Economics of Companies
What Technological Innovation From the Web Browser to ChatGPT Can Teach Us About How Companies Compete to Win Today
Nov 11
•
John Brewton
24
4
12
Operating Fast & Slow
How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's Cognitive Biases Shape Every Business Decision (And How to Solve For These Blind Spots)
Oct 22
•
John Brewton
17
7
7
Operating Economics: Building Antifragile Companies
A Practical Operating System for Uncertainty From the Brilliant Mind of Nassim Taleb
Oct 8
•
John Brewton
39
13
Operating History
View all
Only the Paranoid Survive: Amazon’s Strategic Playbook from Intel Legend Andy Grove
How Jassy Channels Grove’s Discipline: Reshaping from Strength, Not Crisis
Oct 30
•
John Brewton
5
1
When Amazon Channels Carnegie: Capital Intensity and the Competitive Moat
How Andy Jassy's $118 Billion Bet Mirrors the Industrial Titan Who Revolutionized Steel
Oct 30
•
John Brewton
11
3
Alfred & Amazon: When Structure Becomes Strategy
How Jassy’s Segment Model Channels Sloan’s Revolution in Organized Scale
Oct 30
•
John Brewton
2
1
Operating Economics: The Optimization Company
Amazon’s Triumphant Operational Reckoning: What Two Years of Earnings Reveal About the Next Corporate Model
Oct 29
•
John Brewton
18
8
22
Operating Visuals: Faster But Not Different
A Comparative Productivity & Wealth Accumulation Analysis of the First and Fourth Industrial Revolutions
Sep 1
•
John Brewton
7
6
7
Operating 101
View all
The Generalist Misunderstanding
What We're Getting Wrong When We Talk About the Generalist Imperative
Dec 13
•
John Brewton
28
11
13
Why You Should Become an Operator: The Corporate Job Rebrand
How We're Building the New Corporate Future
Oct 30
•
John Brewton
17
5
4
Thursday Operating Note: The Opportunity Found in Hard Conversations
Operating by John Brewton is a reader-supported publication.
Oct 16
•
John Brewton
17
4
6
Daily Operating Note: Silos Don’t Kill Productivity.
Keep your silos. Build bridges.
Oct 15
•
John Brewton
8
4
Tuesday Operating Note: The EQ + IQ Operating Edge
Operating by John Brewton is a reader-supported publication.
Oct 14
•
John Brewton
6
3
Operating Week Ahead
View all
Operating Note: The Pendulum's Swing Towards Safety - Week of 12.15.2025 to 12.20.2025
Netflix-WBD Merger, Stagflation Risks, and the AI Productivity Paradox
Dec 15
•
John Brewton
7
6
2
Operating Note: Week of 12.8.25
The 30,000 Foot View Won't Get the Job Done
Dec 8
•
John Brewton
13
3
8
The Operating Synthesis: November 24-30, 2025
Premium Subscriber Edition
Nov 25
•
John Brewton
7
2
3
The Operating Week Ahead: November 24-30 2025
Free Subscriber Edition
Nov 24
•
John Brewton
19
11
5
The Operating Week Ahead: November 17-22, 2025
The Week That Shook Markets: A Business Roundup for November 9–15, 2025 and Look Ahead to What's Next for Companies
Nov 16
•
John Brewton
15
4
2
Thank you for reading! Become a subscriber to start reading more from the only newsletter you need to become an elite operator.
Subscribe
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
