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The many fallacies of 'AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will'
True, but utterly useless
Apr 13, 2025
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The Not-so-Lazy Holiday Reading List
Laziness as competitive advantage
Dec 28, 2025
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The 'bento box' guide to the Reshuffle of professional services
What Japanese lunches and present-day Hollywood teach us about the future of the professions
Nov 30, 2025
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The slow incumbent fallacy
Why incumbents fail is about a lot more than just organizational inertia
Oct 26, 2025
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The problem with agentic AI in 2025
Too much automation can blind you to the real opportunity
Oct 5, 2025
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Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
Apr 27, 2025
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The Building Blocks Thesis - Volume 1
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AI won't eat your job, but it will eat your salary
Feb 25, 2024
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The Building Blocks Thesis - Volume 2
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Reshuffle and biopolitical power
Briefing #2
Sep 24, 2025
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Openness is a rug-pull, digital strategy is really about leakiness
Openness writes your PR spiel, leakiness books your profits
Sep 21, 2025
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When supply chain power meets ecosystem power
Briefing #1
Sep 17, 2025
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The 'data moats' fallacy
Moats are never about data alone
Sep 7, 2025
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From railroads to Roblox - Designing an AI-first economy
Unbundling and rebundling transform workflows, but also economies
Aug 31, 2025
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The 'bento box' guide to the Reshuffle of professional services
What Japanese lunches and present-day Hollywood teach us about the future of the professions
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The problem with agentic AI in 2025
Too much automation can blind you to the real opportunity
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The 'data moats' fallacy
Moats are never about data alone
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From railroads to Roblox - Designing an AI-first economy
Unbundling and rebundling transform workflows, but also economies
Aug 31, 2025
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You think you are AI-first, but you probably aren't
What Venetian merchants and the railroad pioneers teach us about our current moment in AI
Aug 24, 2025
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The slow incumbent fallacy
Why incumbents fail is about a lot more than just organizational inertia
Oct 26, 2025
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Figma - The untold story
Architecture eats execution for breakfast
Aug 17, 2025
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The AI 'arms race' fallacy
The future of globalization in the age of AI
Feb 4, 2025
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Chegg, ChatGPT, and the changing nature of change
Change is no longer constant, when the nature of change itself changes
Nov 19, 2024
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Tesla, SpaceX, and the economics of Stack Thinking
How to create new industries ground-up
Mar 31, 2024
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Openness is a rug-pull, digital strategy is really about leakiness
Openness writes your PR spiel, leakiness books your profits
Sep 21, 2025
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Quick commerce and the seductive lies of network effects
From Uber to Zepto - why some models work in local markets and others don't
Oct 20, 2024
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The retailer-to-marketplace trap
Why retailers shouldn't build marketplaces - and what they should do instead
Oct 1, 2024
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The false bundles of the platform economy
The subtle lies of bundling convenience with extraction
Mar 27, 2024
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Spotify, connected cars, and open banking - Platforms or glorified distributors?
Gaining power in concentrated markets
Mar 10, 2024
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The 2024 Tech Strategy Toolkit
Nine sources of tech-based competitive advantage
Dec 28, 2023
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The #Web3 Builders Playbook
Crypto might be dead, but long live Web3
Dec 1, 2022
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Ecosystem strategy mapping - A playbook for digital ecosystems
The art of war... and play... for platform ecosystems
Aug 30, 2022
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The Building Blocks Thesis - Deep-Dive Report
The entire Building Blocks thesis launches today as a downloadable report
May 26, 2022
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The State of the Platform Revolution
A 90-page deep-dive on the key themes of the platform economy for a post-covid world
Dec 20, 2020
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