Start here. No fairytales.

Technology changes fast. People don't. Most of the mess lives there.

New here? Don’t start with the oldest post. I was still figuring it out too.

Pick the problem that feels familiar. Read one or two.

You’ll know whether uncharted is for you.

Start with this one

• Great meeting. No reply
  The deal died in a room you never entered.
  

  If you only read one, make it this one. It starts as a sales problem and ends up being about fear, trust and politics.

Or pick what you’re dealing with

What is AI actually changing?

• My OpenClaw review after running a personal AI agent for three months
  What changed when AI started remembering, working in the background and acting without another prompt.

• Marketing is splitting into two jobs
  One persuades people. The other makes your company legible to AI.

• AI made 40 versions of your company and nobody noticed
  Everyone got faster while the company lost its shared voice and memory.

• How to stand out from AI slop
  AI made polish cheap. Judgment is what still makes the work worth noticing.

How do I operate when there’s no playbook?

• Every startup needs a designated hater
  Someone needs permission to kill the bad idea before the customer does.

• Why people make work complicated to protect their jobs
  When impact is hard to prove, complexity becomes career insurance.

• Why bootstrapped startups make better decisions
  Money buys time. Constraints force you to find out whether customers care.

What gets lost when everything is optimised?

• The spreadsheet saved money but your customers lost trust
  The saving appeared immediately. The trust customers lost did not.

• Stablecoin payments have no reverse gear

  The transfer is instant. The mistake still needs somewhere to go.

The archive goes deeper into product, hiring, growth and the rest of the mess.

Read one. Steal something useful and come back when the next problem appears.

Updated whenever I write something better.