Author: Philipp
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The Algorithm and the Skunk Works: It’s Latency, Not Size, That Kills Innovation
Kelly Johnson built jets in a tent in 143 days. Sixty years later Elon Musk landed rockets with almost the same rulebook. Neither copied the other, and the reason rewrites what we think kills innovation.
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Designing Loops That Prompt Your Agents: The Shift From Prompts to Loops
A plain-English recap of Ray Amjad’s video on the prompts-to-loops shift: what a loop actually is, how inner and outer loops fit together, and how to keep them from drowning you in slop.
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Sole Source: The $900k Median Problem Your Dual-Source Checkbox Won’t Fix
The dual-source flag teams buy to feel safe moves the median cost of a disruption about $44k. In the wrong direction. The dependency nobody flags moves it $474k.
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The Resilience Ladder: Why the Things You Buy to Feel Safe Don’t Save You
I pulled 3,000 disruptions to find what separates firms that survive a shock from firms that bleed. The dual-source checkbox wasn’t it.
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I Gave an AI Agent the Reorder Button: It Rebuilt the Bullwhip in 250 Days
An AI agent with the reorder button hit ~100% fill rate and looked like a star. Then I measured what it dumped on its suppliers.
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Four Masters, One Boardroom: A 2,500-Year Operating System for Strategy
Four dead strategists, one boardroom, roughly 2,500 years of canon. Here is the four-layer model that stacks them, and the verified reading list to build it yourself.
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Of the Fox and the Lion: Coercion, Cunning, and Modern Power
Machiavelli’s Chapter 17 and 18 are routinely misread. Force without cunning is brittle. Bonds of love break under stress. Here is what actually holds.
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Mercenaries Will Ruin You: Machiavelli on Outsourced Core Capability
Machiavelli’s argument against mercenaries was never about morality. It was about incentives. Apply it to consultants, gig labor, and outsourced core capability.