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Essays on growth and technology.
Jim's read on using technology to build an edge. What's worth your time, what's noise, and what's working right now.
Essay · 5 minFour things to do before you spend a dollar on "AI."Before buying anything, find the repetitive rules-based work, make it measurable, start where a mistake is cheap, and use the tool yourself before rolling it out to the team. The tool is rarely the hard part, so the win comes from the unglamorous prep, none of which costs a dollar.Read Essay · 5 minWhat gets measured gets managed.A scorecard isn't a dashboard full of data, it's a short list of leading numbers, each owned by name and acted on weekly. It's also the backbone for everything else, because it's the only honest way to know whether a hire, a handoff, or a new tool actually paid off.Read Essay · 5 minThe Machine is a seat now.Getting out of the grind means real delegation, handing off decisions and not just tasks, in a small-to-big order that compounds. The new wrinkle is that work now goes to one of two seats, a person or a system, and the skill is sorting which is which.Read