Startups

3 entries

2025 2 entries

Jul 19
Essaynewest What do platforms really do?
In 1986, David S. Landes wrote the essay, ‘What Do Bosses Really Do?’. He argues that the historical role of the ‘boss’ was an essential function for organizing production and connecting producers to …
3 min
Jul 16
Essay Divine Documentation
Dad was about my age when he said that reading the manual was better than hypothesis driven button pressing. For teenage me, that took too long. Sure, I may have crashed a computer or two but …
2 min

2023 1 entry

Jul 9
Essay Leadership is solitude, leadership teams are introspection
Leaders are by the nature of their job, alone. Good leaders are thinkers, they explore and map their territory and lay out a course. That is they lead with vision. To develop a clear and confident …
4 min