AI will not save a company nobody wants to work for
Automation is removing the jobs that never needed a person. What's left is the work that does — and whether you can keep those people has quietly become the constraint on everything.
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Things I have learned the expensive way, mostly about building businesses, judging people and moving money across borders.
I have been building businesses from the wrong end
Building something great and building something that makes you secure are two different skills. I spent twenty years mastering only the first.
I thought I was working with idiots
For two years I was the worst kind of boss, and I was certain the problem was everyone else. What changed when I finally asked the other question.
Good paperwork and good chemistry fool different people
Everyone has a channel they trust, and it is the channel they get taken on. Knowing which one is yours is most of the defence.
The cheapest thing that qualifies is usually the worst value
When a rule sets a price floor, the item priced exactly at the floor is the one most likely to be overpriced. A pricing distortion most buyers never see, and what it costs them.
Everyone inside a market is paid by it
The person best placed to explain a market is rarely the one who grew up in it. Why an outsider who has committed is worth more than an insider who has not.