Writing · thoughts, in the order they arrived
Words about
the work.
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Seven errors in a book about errors
I wrote a short book arguing that most business advice collapses when you check its sources. Then I checked mine. Here are all seven, what settled each one, and what it cost.
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No spreadsheet ever had a happy ending
A cranky defense of the story against the confident number: why no projection ever ended happy, and why the people holding the spreadsheets always end up with the caviar.
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In defense of the terrible idea
Why the ideas that sound worst out loud are so often the ones worth building — and how to tell a genuinely bad idea from a merely unpopular one.