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petermerholz.com

Design owns coherence

There exists an actual business problem that the C-suite now acknowledges, but no function has stepped up to address it.

design.lightspark.com

Money as a file

A working prototype that lets you move test money as a file: into Finder, along with a message, or directly between two phones.

er-certification.statichost.page

The Enshittification Resistant Software

A self certification process with a somewhat official blessing.

buttondown.com

Email has never been free

The question is only who pays for it, and how.

nicolo.xyz

Something is changing in the unit economics of software

Why AI is compressing software margins, and what that does to the SaaS playbook.

agenticeconomytreatise.com

The Agentic Economy

Explore the argument that intelligence and the economy are converging into a single new system.

adamhjk.com

A practical guide to reducing token spend

Building a Swamp Workflow reduced real world token usage of an AI Agent by 8x and improved execution time by 2x.

larp.website

LARP: Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

Send them $10,000. They send you $10,000. You’ve both booked $10,000 in revenue. Cash never moves. Everybody’s a rocketship.

hermit-tech.com

AI mania is eviscerating global decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

replit.com

The self-driving company

We are beginning to see what happens when a company learns to operate itself.

vaughntan.org

Against bigness

Organisations say they want innovation but keep killing it. The problem is the organisational decision-making machinery.

herbertlui.net

Creative focus

This year is Apple’s 50th year in business. Decades ago, it lost creative focus, and spread itself too thin.

nngroup.com

Stop reporting UX activity and report business outcomes

UX teams should report business outcomes to show impact on revenue, cost, risk, speed, retention, and to secure resources.

uxdesign.cc

The organizational cost of low taste

When taste is weak, everything survives long enough to demand justification, and the organization slowly confuses activity with progress.

mcsweeneys.net

AI economics for dummies

A few examples to help the average layperson understand the business side of AI.

robert-glaser.de

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

What changed because we spent those tokens?

isaiprofitable.com

Is AI profitable yet?

Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies.

every.to

After automation

AI progress creates more work for humans, not less.

smashingmagazine.com

Ten data-backed truths of UX ROI

Facts that link user experience directly to revenue, retention, and long-term growth.

joanwestenberg.com

The “passive income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

How chasing passive income destroys the focus needed to build meaningful products.