Field notes → Live thinking, in real time. Short. Useful in the moment. A few times a week, depending on what feels live.
Articles → Deeper analysis and synthesis, often through case studies. A few times a quarter, depending on how long the analysis takes.
Who it's for → Senior leaders — and conscientious employees — who are tired of “best practices” and operational fiction that doesn’t hold under pressure.
I receive a few hundred emails a day sometimes — and I imagine you do too. No one needs more noise. My aim for these emails is that they offer insights that are applicable immediately.
Field notes are short — a pattern named, a mechanism made visible, a distinction worth holding. Unedited thinking. They're designed to accumulate and be there when you want a dose of reality. They'll improve your pattern recognition skills and give you smart things to say in tough moments.
Periodically I publish longer pieces — diagnostic essays that examine real situations in depth, usually through anonymized case material. These connect signals over time into clearer diagnoses. I aim to ship these every four to six weeks. Most are anonymized failure analysis — they exist to demonstrate what not to do.
I believe in most cases it's better to lean into our strengths. But that won't correct for challenges in a blind spot.
One more thing worth knowing: I often have a waitlist for diagnostic work. Subscribers get first notice on availability. Timing matters more than most people plan for.
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