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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…
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Operating Economics: The Optimization Company
Amazon’s Triumphant Operational Reckoning: What Two Years of Earnings Reveal About the Next Corporate Model
Oct 29, 2025
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Operating Economics: Building Antifragile Companies
A Practical Operating System for Uncertainty From the Brilliant Mind of Nassim Taleb
Oct 8, 2025
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Operating Economics: Building Antifragile Companies
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0 to 55,000 - The First 90 Days Playbook - What I’d Do Differently Knowing What I Know Now
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Start With The Work, Not The Why
Sep 11, 2025
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Operating Charts: How to Measure AI-Bubble Risk
Nov 7, 2025
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The Compounding Effect of Boring AI
Sep 20, 2025
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Work Rules for Creators: What Laszlo Bock Learned Building Google, and What It Means When You’re the Team of One
Jan 14
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AI Upskilling Playbook
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, 2025
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Upskilling Masterclass: From Prompt User to Workflow Architect
Operating by John Brewton: The Ultimate Operating Upskilling Guide (Week 2)
Dec 13, 2025
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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, 2025
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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, 2025
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The AI Skills Crisis Isn’t What You Think
Why 87% of Companies Fail at AI and How the Other 13% Win
Nov 19, 2025
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Operating Stories
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Operating Stories: Hermès and the Manufacturing of Scarcity
What One Person Businesses, Founders and Small Firms Can Learn From the Luxury Icon
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Operating Stories - From Snowboards to $220B: The Tobias Lutke & Shopify Story
What One Frustrated Entrepreneur Can Teach All of Us
Feb 1
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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, 2025
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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, 2025
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Alfred & Amazon: When Structure Becomes Strategy
How Jassy’s Segment Model Channels Sloan’s Revolution in Organized Scale
Oct 30, 2025
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Operating Week Ahead
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The Operating Week Ahead – Aspirations vs. Actual Results
A Weekly Curated Jumpstart for Your Operating Week Ahead
Feb 9
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0 to 55,000 - The First 90 Days Playbook - What I’d Do Differently Knowing What I Know Now
The Operating Week Ahead Special Edition - Operating by John Brewton
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The Operating Creator: A Weekly Note About the History, Economics & Future of the Creator Economy From Operating by John Brewton
The Creator Economy at the Start of 2026: Consolidation, Professionalization, and Structural Transformation
Jan 28
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The Operating Week Ahead: The Davos 2026 Edition
A Weekly Series From Operating by John Brewton Covering the Economic Future of How Companies Operate
Jan 26
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Operating Week Ahead: When Growth Decouples from Hiring
The Operating by John Brewton Weekly Note on the World We Inhabit
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