~ the archive · 38 episodes & counting

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Today vs. Ten Years
The Shift 9 min read

Today vs. Ten Years

The Station Plan

Monday Move Print the table. Hand a copy to your second-in-command. Sit down for twenty minutes. Go row by row. For each row, mark where the business is right now with an X.

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Pick the Decision. Latency Answers Itself.
Field Notes 9 min read

Pick the Decision. Latency Answers Itself.

The Prep List

Monday Move Pick one dashboard you have. Any one of them. The one in the ops review, the one in the morning standup, the one you opened twice this week and could not say what for.

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Five Questions for the Blind-Spot Prompt Ritual
Field Notes 9 min read

Five Questions for the Blind-Spot Prompt Ritual

The Professional Recipe

Monday Move Pick one of the five.

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Three Handoffs at Ninety Is Seventy-Three
The Shift 9 min read

Three Handoffs at Ninety Is Seventy-Three

The Station Plan

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Mount Stupid
The Shift 8 min read

Mount Stupid

The Four D's

Monday Move Pick the most recent AI win you posted about, told a peer about, or quietly congratulated yourself for.

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The Dimmer, Not the Switch.
Field Notes 8 min read

The Dimmer, Not the Switch.

The Four D's

Monday Move Pick one agent you've deployed.

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The Team Didn't Need Perfect
Field Notes 8 min read

The Team Didn't Need Perfect

Two tools. Same team, same quarter, same budget. One of them is holding up an operation right now. The other is a tab nobody clicks.

The Four D's

Monday Move Pick the last internal tool your team did not adopt. The one that got built and never took. You know the one.

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The Prep Call
The Shift 9 min read

The Prep Call

The chef gets the credit. The sous chef makes the credit possible.

The Station Plan

Monday Move Open the calendar. Put a thirty-minute meeting on it. Title it *Prep Call.* Invite you and whoever is playing the Pass in your business. Weekly. Same time. Protected.

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The Wrong Room
Translated Strategy 8 min read

The Wrong Room

You didn't buy the wrong AI. You put a fine AI in the wrong room.

The Station Plan

Monday Move Pick one task your team is supposed to be using the chat window for. One. The follow-up emails. The quote summaries. The call notes. Whichever one you've been quietly annoyed nobody's adopting.

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Earlier in the archive 29 more
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