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Please note that the daily format began on 07 January 2025.  Therefore, older posts may have a different format—they are longer—but still worth reading.

Once upon a time, a barber named John realised that his boss was not the sharpest blade in the drawer....

At Johns Hopkins Hospital in the early 2000s, something deeply unsettling was happening. Patients were dying from preventable infections during...

"We have a long history of thinking that we are special. We thought we were at the centre of the...
It is said that capital refers to resources used in the means of production to create value. But where do...
All the important relationships we have are governed by vows and precepts — from marriage to the military. However, entrepreneurship...
The sand is shifting beneath our feet. The career, as we know it, is dying. People no longer aspire to...
What if your initial customers when starting a business were not your real customers? What if their role was to...

I just finished listening to This is Marketing by Seth Godin for the second time, and I finally get it....

I think digital advertising is dead. Advertising used to be scarce. Only people and organisations with deep pockets could buy...

Long before motorways, there were salt roads. Caravans of camels and mules kicking up dust on long desert paths, carrying...

The promise of AI is hyperproductivity — more output from less input. Instead of spending hours reading a 20,000-word essay,...

What if we looked at entrepreneurs as athletes? I think this would cause a profound shift in how they see...

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