Entrepreneur
Kanban was invented so nobody had to manage anything; software made moving the card a second job. Trello hit that ceiling first, and Monday.com and its peers are next, because what they bill for is human attention spent inside a board. … readNobody Wants to Move the Card
Brands were invented to get past the clerk who chose for you. AI agents put that clerk back behind the counter, and DoorDash’s $17 billion deal for Instacart bought the counter. In 2030 it launches three brands of its own. … readThe Clerk Is Back: DoorDash Becomes a Food Brand in 2030
On a big, complicated project, don’t plan the first move. Write the outcome, run three reasoning lenses, and let them discover the cheapest evidence that would move the most. Three loops on one merger: call the customers, pull the warranty file, re-cut one number. … readRinse and Repeat
A worked run of three reasoning lenses on one axiom, a merger press release, with a negotiation round between them. The lesson for advanced students: sort the result into settled, resolved and yours, and the last bin is your job. … readSettled, Resolved, Yours
First principles reasons up from the bottom and analogy reasons across from today. Add a third direction, down from an assumed outcome, run all three at once, and the places where they disagree are the diagnosis. … readWhy Isn’t It So?
Renting a CRM means living in someone else’s schema. With Claude and Supabase a contractor can build the database they actually need, mirror it into Jobber for a year so nothing breaks, and then cut over to the one they own. … readOwn Your CRM
Every retelling between what a homeowner says and what lands in the CRM loses something. A recorder, an MCP connector and a scheduled agent collapse those retellings to one: the conversation becomes the estimate, and the draft quote is waiting before you get home. … readThe Estimate Writes Itself
When a bank buys a signature house, the branch stops waiting for loan applications. It learns which promises work, brings the whole deal to the businesses that fit, and takes a share of the gain instead of interest, as long as it keeps the risk it sells. … readThe Bank That Knocks First
Banks ration credit to projects they cannot see inside. A signature house that does the work and guarantees the outcome can finance them from the result itself, as long as it lends only against its own signature. … readThe Best Lender Is the One Who Does the Work
Part insurer, part law firm, part engineering shop, part bank: when manufactured intelligence makes the work cheap, the gaps between those four firms become the expensive part, and they fold into one that sells guaranteed outcomes. … readThe Signature House: The Next Great Firm Sells a Promise