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Essays on leverage, workflow, and the careful use of AI in founder-led businesses. Written when there is something worth writing.

  1. 2026 · 04 · 12

    The quiet cost of holding your workflow in your head

    On the founder bottleneck that never gets diagnosed because it isn’t felt as a bottleneck — it’s felt as just the way things are.

  2. 2026 · 03 · 24

    Why most founder AI experiments feel busy and move nothing

    A note on the difference between using AI and getting leverage from AI.

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  3. 2026 · 03 · 08

    One change that opens several others

    On finding the real leverage point, and why it is almost never what the founder came in asking about.

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  4. 2026 · 02 · 19

    English is the new programming language, but that is not the interesting part

    The interesting part is what gets easier to change.

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  5. 2026 · 02 · 02

    The proposal is what you say, not what you write

    A short piece, mostly in the Alan Weiss tradition.

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  6. 2026 · 01 · 14

    Against the AI audit

    Why the word “audit” describes almost nothing of what the first session actually needs to do.

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