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Pricing is the single most leveraged decision in any business — a one percent improvement in price realisation typically produces a three to five percent improvement in operating profit, which is a more powerful lever…
A founder I spoke with recently described hiring their first fractional CFO as "the smartest thing I didn't know I needed." Her company had grown past the point where spreadsheets and intuition were adequate for…
There's a tension at the heart of edge computing that has never been fully resolved. The closer you push intelligence to the physical world — to sensors in factories, cameras on roads, devices in hospitals…
The growth strategy advice available to small business owners is abundant and mostly useless. Not because it's wrong in principle — most of it is directionally correct — but because it's generic to the point…
The digital twin concept in industrial engineering is relatively well-understood: a virtual model of a physical object or system that updates in real time based on sensor data from the real counterpart, allowing engineers to…
The flat screen had an extraordinary run. Forty years of personal computing, smartphones, tablets, and monitors, and the dominant interface paradigm remained fundamentally the same: a two-dimensional rectangle of light that you look at rather…
⚕️ Medical note: Neurofeedback is a therapeutic intervention that should be conducted by a licensed clinician. This article is for informational purposes only. A colleague told me she'd been doing neurofeedback for her anxiety, and…
The language around decentralised organisations is heavily influenced by crypto culture, which means it often comes pre-loaded with either messianic enthusiasm or reflexive scepticism, neither of which is particularly useful for understanding what's actually happening.…
I was sceptical about mushroom smash burgers for longer than I should have been. The words "mushroom" and "burger" have been awkwardly paired in vegetarian cooking for decades, usually producing something that's neither quite a…
I arrived in Mumbai with the usual agenda — the Gateway of India, Colaba market, a seafood lunch at a restaurant someone had recommended with the certainty of the recently converted. What I hadn't expected…
