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How Netflix Upended an Industry
What counter-positioning and scale economies look like in business
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Stop Optimising Everything: How to Design Business Systems That Don't Snap Under Pressure
Why efficiency taken too far becomes a liability
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May 2026
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May 12
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The Premortem: The 6-Step Framework That Increases Your Ability to Spot Business Failure by 30%
Why smart teams still make bad decisions — and the 10-minute exercise that fixes It
May 10
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Visually Understand Anything In Claude
Accelerate your learning by seeing things clearly
May 3
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How to Read a Cash Flow Statement
Why profit tells you what a company earned—and cash flow tells you whether it's real
May 2
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April 2026
45 Financial Metrics Owner-Operators Must Understand
The School of Knowledge is the weekly newsletter for SME owners and investors who want frameworks they can actually use — frameworks, checklists, and…
Apr 25
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Where to Draw Your Systems Boundary
Boundary decisions are the highest-leverage choices a business makes. How transaction costs, asset specificity, and Ashby's Law should guide yours.
Apr 19
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A Lot of Good Business Decisions is Just Figuring Out What You Don’t Want
Via negativa, Munger's inversion, Buffett's too hard pile: the smartest operators use subtraction, not addition. Here's how to build your exclusion…
Apr 12
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Why Warren Buffett Reads the Balance Sheet Before Anything Else (And How to Do It Yourself)
Learn how to read a balance sheet from scratch — assets, liabilities, equity, and the ratios that matter most to investors and business operators.
Apr 11
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Cynefin: The Decision-Making Tool Every Operator Needs
Not all problems are the same type of problem
Apr 5
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How to Design the Systems That Run Your Business
The operator's guide to feedback loops
Apr 4
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