Published addenda
Each piece starts with an existing article and adds the context, limitation, correction or alternative interpretation it needs.
Software Strategy
Responding to Joel on Software
Old code preserves hard-won behavior, but it can also preserve unsafe platforms and obsolete contracts; the real asset is verified knowledge, not every implementation.
Startup Advice
Responding to First Round Review
Memorable advice can prompt reflection, but stripped of company stage, alternatives, and failure cases, contradictory startup maxims can justify almost any decision.
Personal Finance
Responding to Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
The official guide lists goals, risk, fees, and regulators, but beginners first need an order of operations that separates investable surplus from money they cannot risk.
Organizational Design
Responding to Entrepreneur
Micromanagement may reflect founder anxiety, but vague authority, punished mistakes, and concentrated information explain dependency more directly than identity metaphors do.
Leadership
Responding to Inc.
Founders shape their companies, but persistence and personal responsibility become misleading when they absorb market constraints, opportunity costs, and reasons to stop.
Workplace Research
Responding to Atlassian
Employees noticed structured video updates, but novelty, manager effort, message design, and self-reporting remain bundled inside a very short company study.
Management
Responding to Asana
Vision and inspiration sound nobler than operations, but managers exercise consequential authority while informal leaders are often handed responsibility without power.
Entrepreneurship
Responding to The Tim Ferriss Show
Financing labels should follow the mechanics of customer value, cash timing, control, and personal exposure—not define the company before those facts are known.
Small Business
Responding to GOV.UK
The government page points to useful templates, but it leaves new owners without a route from generic forecasts to sector rules, personal exposure, and cash-timing risk.
