Charles Blain
Frameworks That Make The Invisible Visible

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17
Feb

Work Slop

In 1636, Dutch traders invented something elegant. Instead of buying tulip bulbs, you could buy windhandel. Wind trade. A formal,
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16
Feb

The Pipe Reveal

You don't need to pick the winning AI model. The real shift already happened underneath. Microsoft invested $13
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13
Feb

The Exit Option

The American homebuilding industry has a business model. Buy land. Sit on it. Pray the market holds. When it doesn&
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12
Feb

The Blocked Signal

BlackRock manages $13.5 trillion. Their investment committees have access to every model, every data point, every analyst report on
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11
Feb

The Smartest Fool

In April 1720, Isaac Newton sold his shares in the South Sea Company. He walked away with roughly £20,000
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10
Feb

The Fairway Signal

Wall Street spent the early 2000s building models. Quantitative systems processing millions of data points. Risk algorithms monitoring every basis
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09
Feb

Quality Is Love

Before Avedis Donabedian, there was no systematic way to know if a hospital was saving patients or killing them. He
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06
Feb

Execution, Not Selection

Someone told Seth Godin they were "waiting for a really good idea." His response: "A Broadway show
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05
Feb

Vocabulary Debt

You've noticed that AI "hallucination" debates go in circles. The word itself is the reason. When
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04
Feb

One Word, Three Things

Your CEO says "AI strategy." Your engineer says "AI can't do that." They'
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