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All the Demand Ideas from The Heart of Innovation, Simply Stated All the ideas of the Heart of Innovation, compressed into one piece.
03.03.2026 16:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our First Accelerated Expertise Course A first attempt at putting the two theories of Accelerated Expertise (2016) to practice — in a live course, with real students. A field report from use.
26.02.2026 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Few Notes on Moats Some non-obvious, even surprising things about building competitive moats, including when they might not be necessary.
11.02.2026 10:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“This One Can Make Money Or Not?” To do well in business, it helps to want to make money. The end of the Asian Conglomerate Series.
28.01.2026 09:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tycoon Skill: Holding on to Political Influence Dhirubhai Ambani vs Nusli Wadia, as an example of holding on to political influence as a form of tycoon skill.
18.01.2026 15:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What We Learnt From Speedrunning the Idea Maze Our attempt at applying two theories of accelerated expertise to the first cohort of Speedrunning the Idea Maze.
14.01.2026 15:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Announcing Cohort Two of Speedrunning the Idea Maze A live course, limited to 45 people. Applications close 16th January.
12.01.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘The Ultimate Business-Cycle Bottom Fisher’ How Kwek Leng Beng turned a regional business into a global hotel empire, trampling over a distressed Donald Trump in the process. Part of the Asian Conglomerate Series.
27.12.2025 16:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stop Worrying About Survivorship Bias With This One Weird Trick Why successful investors and businesspeople tell you to learn from business history — and what they do so survivorship bias isn’t a problem.
19.12.2025 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Creation of a Skilled Tycoon What it looks like when an Asian tycoon gets good at the game of business.
08.12.2025 15:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Shape of The Game We Play The weird thing about learning business is that some things must be learnt through practice, but some things are best learnt through reading.
26.11.2025 05:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What is a Tech Bubble Anyway? What Data General and the minicomputer boom can tell us about our present moment.
18.11.2025 09:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Only Thing That Matters Business skill as the ability to cut a messy business problem down to a single, most important thing.
03.11.2025 13:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Letter to a Young Person Worrying About AI It is a common misperception that you must be able to predict the future to do well. But it’s possible to act without prediction, even in the face of AI. This is how.
20.10.2025 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Completing Commoncog’s Repositioning (and Going On Paternity Leave) Notes on Commoncog’s 2025 repositioning, and taking a month off.
20.09.2025 14:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to Use AI Without Becoming Stupid A simple, universal rule for AI use, built on top of some smart philosophy, designed to be used as guiding policy for your business.
16.09.2025 11:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Joy of Small Markets If you want to get rich, the irony is that small markets are often better than large ones.
02.09.2025 04:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Chaos and Coherence in Business Learning the right lessons from my old boss, in the wake of a successful acquisition.
26.08.2025 10:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to Run Smart Experiments When You Just Don’t Know How all good entrepreneurs run experiments at the earliest stages of a business, and how you can use this approach for your own career.
20.08.2025 08:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Vaccine for Anthropomorphism of AI How to resist thinking of large language models as friends. Or sentient things. Or intelligences you have to treat like God.
30.07.2025 08:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Tatas: When Virtue Works Why are the Tatas so much less corrupt than their contemporaries? How is their conglomerate still intact after five generations? The answer to an Asian conglomerate mystery, and Part 13 of the Asian conglomerate series.
22.07.2025 16:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Announcing Speedrunning the Idea Maze A live course, limited to 30 people. Applications close 21st July.
14.07.2025 05:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Putting the Jobs to be Done Interview to Practice Things we wished someone told us, before we put the JTBD interview to practice.
09.07.2025 06:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tycoon Succession Most Asian conglomerates are family-controlled businesses. Succession in any family business is a tricky thing. We look at a few cases as part of the Asian Conglomerate Series.
30.06.2025 16:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Art of the Asian Joint Venture How Robert Kuok used the joint venture to expand his business empire ... and what this tells us about business in Southeast Asia.
24.06.2025 16:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You’re Always Selling to a Situation, Not an ICP One simple idea that falls out of the Heart of Innovation book — that you can use immediately — is this idea of selling into situations, not selling to ideal customer profiles. It’s what the pros do anyway.
19.06.2025 06:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Origin of the Tatas How one of the oldest business empires on the subcontinent got started, and how one man’s values laid the foundation for five generations of business conduct.
25.05.2025 10:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cases from The Heart of Innovation Three cases from The Heart of Innovation, picked to demonstrate the ideas of Deliberate Innovation.
22.05.2025 16:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail A theory of demand (and product market fit) that explains it all, and does NOT require ‘pain’ to do it.
12.05.2025 05:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Business with Tariffs; Business as Usual Every Asian Tycoon we’ve examined got their start in a world with tariffs. They could thrive and adapt under severe uncertainty. So can we. Here’s how to calibrate for that world.
30.04.2025 06:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0