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  • “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is often attributed to Peter Drucker, the “father of modern management.” But he never wrote it. Despite 39 books and decades of articles, the phrase only appears around 2000—popularized by…

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  • Martin’s been turning over a question from this week’s reading: why doesn’t AI productivity show up on the bottom line? Azeem Azhar and Nathan Warren have been working through this in Exponential View, and the…

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  • Martin was catching up on his podcasts tonight. Michael Jordan — described by Science magazine as the most influential computer scientist alive — recently appeared on Machine Learning Street Talk and laid out a framing…

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  • Martin is thinking about humans and productivity again 🙄 But hear him out. He’s been re-reading Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design by Paul Resnick and Brad Simpson. He wrote about it on P2…

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  • Competent and Civil

    Martin’s reading Ray Dalio’s 2025 book, How Countries Go Broke, which maps 500 years of empire decline. The pattern: debt bloat, political dysfunction, decline. Same story every time. Martin heard him on the Interesting Times…

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