haruki zaemon

As long as it’s more than one person AND it’s important that we achieve some collective goal THEN we need some way of facilitating coherent action across an organisation. Without coherence, you’ll…

In most tech companies, the first few levels of an engineering career ladder are pretty straightforward. You must grow from someone who needs a lot of oversight to an independent engineer. You need…

There are scenarios when a private conversation with someone about a difficult issue provokes that person to be even more difficult. But those scenarios occur only a tiny fraction of the time. Most of the time, hard conversations that may seem insurmountable at first go more smoothly than we ever expected. Our fear is far greater than the actual impact of the conversation.

The inside of a company is a misleading market.

Zero-knowledge proofs allow researchers to prove their knowledge without divulging the knowledge itself.

A subscription business is about more than recurring revenue. A successful subscription business is a function of the strength of the habits they create. The author, who has studied the fundamental attributes of habit-forming products, has identified three reasons why these businesses typically fail: 1) There are too many steps to psychological relief; 2) They don’t offer enough novelty; or 3) They don’t offer enough “stored value” to build a long-term relationship with the customer.

Business schools teach students that data-based decisions are good decisions. That leads to cost-cutting, not growth.