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The trouble with throwing stones at a seedling is you miss the compost

🌱Part 2 on "The Fax Club Experiment": Why early ideas need quiet before the storm, and how a rigid workshop taught me to step back

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The trouble with throwing stones at a seedling is that you miss the point of the compost. Welcome to part two of our series exploring "The Fax Club Experiment". 🌱 Here's the take: fresh ideas need pr...
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September 7, 2026 at 9:55 AM
16 years in one company looks like standing still, but deep tenure gave me the leverage to keep work human. People partner with people, not machines. 🛋️⚙️

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🛋️ On the curious properties of institutional furniture and why staying put requires a surprising amount of walking. Sixteen years in one place feels crazy today, but I stayed sharp by changing jobs ...
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September 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Hiding behind a screen feels efficient, but real alignment requires the friction of an actual room.

Fast chats manage routine work. Face to face builds resilient trust. 🤝

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The Bandwidth Paradox: Why Complex Ecosystems Require Real Rooms
Human communication evolved over millions of years around subtle expressions, physical presence, and vocal nuance. Yet today, standard professional life defaults to staring into laptop screens while h...
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September 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
In the beginning, the dashboard was created 🎰 It didn't help...

Explore to learn what works, then execute. Stop tracking every metric for years. Run a short discovery, lock in fundamentals, and do the work

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In the beginning, the dashboard was created, which made a great deal of people very angry and was widely regarded as a bad move. Computer scientists face the multi-armed bandit problem when deciding ...
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August 31, 2026 at 9:45 AM
🎯 Winning is an operational hazard. When Oprah picked Maria Semple's novel, panic hit: success brings cognitive bloat and fear of loss.

Contain victory: separate applause from identity and reject secondary noise.

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Mostly harmless until promoted: a guide to avoiding the catastrophic consequences of victory 🎯 Oprah picked her book, and instead of relief, sheer panic hit because winning meant she might lose it al...
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August 30, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Instant replies create constant noise. Deliberate delays protect focus.

The Fax Club forced a 7-day pause on replies, replacing performative noise with clear reflection.

Adding latency helps do real work.

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A practical guide to surviving modern communication tools
There is a theory that modern communication tools were designed to help us collaborate, while another theory suggests that their sole purpose is to ensure that no sentient being in the universe ever e...
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August 26, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Nothing moves faster than light, except bad ideas typed into group chats ⚡

Real-time messaging creates continuous noise. Adding an intentional delay turns chatter into clarity

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Nothing moves faster than light, with the possible exception of bad ideas typed into group chats with zero seconds of prior thought. In The Fax Club Experiment by The 32 (and David Hieatt's foreword)...
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August 23, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Spotless dashboards don't mean real work is getting done 📊

Obsessing over proxy metrics creates tunnel vision & kills deep focus

Close the analytics, silence the noise & focus on finishing what actually matters 🧠✨

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Your dashboard is spotless, yet half your team is probably wondering what anyone actually shipped this week. When Brad Stulberg was working on his earlier books, he fell into a familiar rut. Instead ...
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August 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Buying a parking spot in 🇨🇭 taught me that logic loses to local custom every time

Bring standard business logic to a culture clash - close the deal, ruin the relationship

Humans run on unwritten fairness, not market mechanics 🤝

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🇨🇭 The wild thing about buying property in Switzerland is that everyone tells you it's a nation of rules, order, and precision. "Andrey," they say, "the Swiss do not mess around!" But nobody warns yo...
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August 9, 2026 at 8:57 AM
🦝 Stop preserving legacy like a museum piece

Look at these 1883 Shigaraki Tanuki statues at Chingodō Shrine

Heritage flourishes when legacy builds springboards for the future - from 19th-century craft to modern pop culture

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Why we need more raccoon dogs in our lives 🦝 Off Tokyo's main thoroughfares, I stumbled onto two 19th-century Shigaraki ceramic raccoon dog statues at Chingodō Shrine. Audit legacy models, isolate co...
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August 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Neutral equilibrium isn't a peaceful meadow, but furious paddling against chaos 🏞️

In 1291, 3 Alpine cantons proved that stability isn't a default state. It's high-maintenance architecture ⚖️

The network doesn't run itself 🛡️

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Turns out neutral equilibrium is not a peaceful meadow where one sits quietly with a pipe, but furious paddling against the relentless current of chaos. 🏞️ Back in 1291, three small forest cantons sat...
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August 1, 2026 at 4:59 PM
🛒 A million people looked at my photo of a supermarket, proving high-frequency certainty beats low-frequency novelty

Identify your users' daily friction and build a 1-click fix

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LinkedIn loves a flex. Passing 5 million photo views on Google Maps is the exact kind of vanity metric that usually triggers a round of self-congratulatory applause or a hollow 3-step guide on how to ...
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July 30, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Your quarterly stock price cares more about silicon than carbon 📈

When leaders treat human talent as disposable to fund server racks, short-term metrics destroy long-term value

Read the full breakdown ⤵️
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On the peculiar habit of worshipping server racks while firing the engineers
An old Soviet joke goes like this: A worker at a state pencil factory is assigned to manage lead production. Every day, the factory director walks past and screams at him to double his speed.
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July 30, 2026 at 7:13 PM
A most cunning plan to measure how fast we are going in the wrong direction 🏒

At the Maple Leafs camp, elite players ignored glucose metrics to focus on ice time. Is your team majoring in the minors?

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🏒 A most cunning plan to measure precisely how fast we are going in entirely the wrong direction. At the Toronto Maple Leafs camp, elite hockey players eat white bread and candy, ignoring glucose metr...
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July 28, 2026 at 6:35 PM
📈 Alphabet’s Q2 CapEx surge panics Wall Street, yet human talent was cut first

🧠 Like hungry judges denying parole from hunger, treating labor as disposable to protect executive bonuses is bad design. Founders built for long-term capability💡

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On the peculiar habit of treating human talent as disposable ballast while worshipping server racks. 📈 Wall Street panicked over Alphabet's server costs, proving leadership mistakenly treats people as...
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July 26, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Governments banning tech giants to run their own spyware is not protection, but data capture 🤖

Real digital sovereignty empowers citizens, not surveillance 🕵️

And if you pay with attention, you're the product

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The government banning a tech giant to run its own spyware is a masterclass in civic devotion. Yes, if you are not paying for a digital product with money, you are paying with your data and attention...
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July 24, 2026 at 7:58 AM
⚖️ Speed without structure is just a faster way to fail

In Goldratt’s *The Goal*, a hike stalls until the fastest scouts match the pace of the slowest boy

Your platform is only as fast as its slowest constraint.

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A faster way to fail
I should be outraged by that Zurich Airport security breakdown, but honestly? It’s hard to get mad at airport staff when you realize they’re just acting out a classic British sitcom episode: A machine...
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July 22, 2026 at 8:17 AM
🗿 The Robert Burns statue in Sydney proves a tragic paradox

Our tightest corporate "tiger teams" crush external partners to protect their own tribe

Efficiency shouldn't mean oppression. Audit who your strategy excludes 🤝

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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union  ...or why the most oppressed groups build the most ruthless systems 🗿 When I remember myself standing by Sydney’s Robert Burns memoria...
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July 20, 2026 at 8:21 AM
🚀 The absolute brilliance of slowing down

Marriott built a depression-proof empire by prioritizing stable baseline infrastructure over high-margin sprints

I learned the same lesson the hard way

Protect your brakes ⚖️

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The absolute brilliance of slowing down. Marriott avoided catastrophic failure during the Great Depression by refusing high-margin luxury growth and focusing on stable infrastructure. 🚀 𝗧𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀: Aud...
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July 19, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Sovereignty is an expensive word for a digital prison

Walls around tech traps local talent inside fragile monocultures

Resilience comes from lowering barriers and integrating with diverse, global ecosystems 🌐🔓

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🔓 𝗦𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻. You'd think there was no connection between yet another "build local" directive and recreational drug use in the EDM culture... Read on...
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July 18, 2026 at 5:21 PM
The control illusion: why blind tech scripts break your customer experience

In my latest article I contrast the Carv 2 turnaround with broken automated loops

Fix your stack: find the human node tonight ⛷️

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Stop hiding behind circular scripts
You thought you were going to get a simple confirmation, but instead you got a completely different set of instructions. It is the classic corporate loop of a badly automated customer service line: th...
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July 15, 2026 at 7:48 AM
🤝 Spectacular corporate breakdowns are a perfectly predictable penalty for ignoring routine hygiene

A premium tech product turned into a multi-month support nightmare because a tiny part failed

Check your network loops

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𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝘆𝗴𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. A massive global tech brand allowed a tiny broken plastic part to ...
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July 14, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Opaque internal data networks are a corporate illusion

Stop drafting legal privacy policies that your code dumpster fire can't support

🛑 Internal engineering walls kill scale

Treat internal teams as clients 📊

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𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲. Spot and share the mistake on this globe relevant to this post for extra points. Internal walls and silent engineering peers p...
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July 12, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Your team isn't short on resources, they are just drowning in noise

🛑 The Broad Institute tripled output simply by freezing new work until active tasks were resolved

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Noise cancelling as a product strategy
Imagine walking into a meeting room today and telling your team that you are banning the phrase "resource constraints" for the next week. You would get the same look a doctor gets when they tell a pat...
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July 8, 2026 at 7:51 AM
🤝 If you think something is hard, it becomes hard

We turned a high-friction market launch into a shared victory simply by aligning our network roadmaps

Stop over-engineering your outreach

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𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱, 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱. We assumed competing against a massive platform launch was an impossible challenge until a simple partnership dissolved the friction. Try tackling you...
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July 6, 2026 at 9:58 AM