Most businesses operate out of sync with reality.
The claim is structural. Most organizations were imitated into existence — assembled from the visible effects of successful peers, never built from an understanding of the causes. This is a body of work about what in-sync looks like. Business is the laboratory. The questions are universal.
Three ways in
Not every reader enters from the same door. Three paths into the same room.
How business actually works
Essays on organizational structure, product, and the operating logic of firms — for the reader who builds.
Read the essays II.What I'm reading
Book reactions and source connections. Short, honest, useful to anyone thinking in nearby territory.
Open the reading log III.The experiment
Simple Product Feeds and Business Topologies blueprints — the framework, tested against reality.
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