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Field Notes

Writing

Observations from twenty years of building, selling, commercializing, and operating technology. On how organizations learn, decide, commercialize, and build.

  1. Thesis

    The Decision Layer

    Most companies have a system for producing information and far weaker systems for turning it into decisions. That missing layer, the hinge between what a company knows and what it does, is where much of the leverage lives.

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  2. Commercial Systems

    Why Great Products Lose

    The reason is rarely the product. It is the commercial system around it: packaging, pricing, timing, channel, enablement, and follow-through.

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  3. Intelligence Systems

    The Companies That Win With AI Will Build Memory

    Every reorg and every departure costs a company knowledge it already paid for. Most companies do not have a knowledge problem. They have a memory problem.

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  4. Creative Systems

    What Game Design Taught Me About Commercial Systems

    Building worlds for fun taught me more about incentives, behavior, and feedback loops than most commercial playbooks. Markets and games run on the same fuel.

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