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Operating Economics: Building Antifragile Companies
A Practical Operating System for Uncertainty From the Brilliant Mind of Nassim Taleb
Oct 8
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The Problem of AI-Transformation For Large Companies
Why Large Organization Are Struggling With AI Transformation and Why They Must Learn to Succeed
Aug 24
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The Operating Week Ahead: Week of October 27th, 2025
Task Reallocation, Organizational Flattening, and Leadership Velocity
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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
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The Operating Week Ahead: 10.19.25 to 10.26.25
What Happened, What's Ahead & What We're Reading
Oct 19
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Operating Economics: 10 Concepts from Google’s Economist to Help You Build a Better Company
Oct 2
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The Operating Week Ahead: 10.19.25 to 10.26.25
Oct 19
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GenZ, Dropout Nerds, and The Great Reorganization (What Cluely Taught Us)
Jul 2
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Scaling Down the Big Ideas: Jim Collins, Good to Great
Jul 24
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Thursday Operating Note: The Opportunity Found in Hard Conversations
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Oct 16
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Daily Operating Note: Silos Don’t Kill Productivity.
Keep your silos. Build bridges.
Oct 15
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Tuesday Operating Note: The EQ + IQ Operating Edge
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Oct 14
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Monday Operating Note: Ship Better Work
10 Rules Operators Can Use This Week
Oct 13
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SORRY Is Not a Solution
The Operator’s Script for When Things Break
Oct 12
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Operating Economics: 10 Concepts from Google’s Economist to Help You Build a Better Company
10 Concept from Hal Varian's Classic Microeconomics Text to Help You Operate Better
Oct 2
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Build or Be Left Behind
The New Operating Economics of Data Infrastructure
Sep 29
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