Hi there!As I mentioned last week, I've changed Sunday Reads to a new platform - it's called Substack (and my newsletter page is here).I sent today's edition out a couple of hours ago. In case you didn't get it, the email might have gone into your Pr...
Hope you and yours are keeping safe.I'm back again with the most thought-provoking articles I've read in the week. (in case you missed my newsletter last week, you can find it here: Sunday Reads #97: They will never take our FREEDOM!)This week, we fi...
Hope you and yours are keeping safe. I'm back again with the most thought-provoking articles I've read in the week. (in case you missed my newsletter last week, you can find it here: Sunday Reads #96: 50 Powerful Ideas).This week, we first take a loo...
Hope you and yours are keeping safe. Countries are opening up, but the virus is still around 😟.I'm back again with the most thought-provoking articles I've read in the week. (in case you missed my article last week, you can find it here: Hiring grea...
Hope you and yours are keeping safe.A couple of weeks ago, I had written an article on effective team management. Lots of you replied that it was useful (glad you liked it!). But that I had left out an important area: hiring.That's true. Hiring is a...
Scott Alexander has written a great “where are we now” primer on COVID-19: When all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a dance. Apart from his updates on how we’re doing in our battle against the virus,… Continue reading →
The world is tipping into the mother of all recessions. And yet the stock markets are on a tear like nothing’s happened. As I mentioned in COVID-19 is a Black Swan, but not for the reason you think, this is… Continue reading →
Is the Lean Startup dead? If there’s any ideology that’s gone from radical idea to article of faith in less than a decade, it’s “Lean Startup”. When the idea was first proffered by Steve Blank in the early 2000s, it… Continue reading →
Why do "Nigerian prince" scammers say they're from Nigeria? They do it to be less, not more, believable.… Continue reading →
Many pundits call COVID-19 a Black Swan event. And I have done the same. In countless conversations with clients, suppliers and others, ruminating wisely, “yes, it’s a black swan event. All bets are off.” But is it really? Black swans… Continue read...
Digital advertising is one of the biggest new industries of the Internet era. In 2018, USD 273Bn was spent on digital ads globally. What if I told you it was all fake?… Continue reading →
A powerful book, that changed how I thought about entrepreneurship. I've written about the importance of the Power Law before, and what it means for what you choose to do.… Continue reading →
[Note: I shared this mental model with my email subscribers on Feb 12, 2017. If you want to receive a new mental model every week, join the club.] What it is: Margin of safety is a critical principle in engineering. Let’s say… Continue reading →
[Note: I shared this mental model with my email subscribers on Feb 5, 2017. If you want to receive a new mental model every week, join the club.] Why is it so hard to persuade people with facts? You feel like their… Continue reading →
[Note: I shared this mental model with my email subscribers on Feb 5, 2017. If you want to receive a new mental model every week, join the club.] Or as more ancient stoics said, “Premeditatio malorum”. Or “premeditation of evils”. What… Continue r...