I help people achieve success in three steps: (1) Be consistently right (2) Build alliances (3) Make impact Operated by @kda
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As @mapkeep is shutting down, here are my maps that I can make public:
Social capital (about 80%), could be much better.
New ways of working - rejected work - very hard to sell POV that way of working depends on business decisions more than on HR.
I am on the verge of rejecting my next mapping talk.
Teaching mapping is fun, but bills need to be paid.
Yeah, I did that. I also shut down all of the free mapping teaching.
This stuff was increadibly draining as I was hoping it will become sustainable for far too long.
At least, I have got some clarity and free cycles to think about other things.
btw. closing open decision loops is most liberating feeling ever. More at @kda
Wardley Maps retweeted
i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from:
- getting humiliated
- showing up terrified and doing it anyway
- admitting you might be the problem
A good component on a map represents an 'affordance'.
This is a concept known from design - and it means it invites some sort of action.
Strong strategy usually looks like this:
1⃣Wardley Map to see reality.
2⃣Playing to Win to make choices.
3⃣VRIO to test defensibility.
4⃣OKRs to force action.
5⃣Scenarios to stay adaptable.
Dilbert shaped generations of office workers. Yet, it is fundamentally flawed because Dilbert is not intelligent enough to get what he wants.
The first step towards getting your decisions right is to admit what you want... and stop making excuses.
Ok, this is not funny anymore.
Due to where I am in my life, I have received numerous pieces of advice to specialize.
And I hate it.
I have a lot of fun while constantly doing new things. Except it does not pay off very well.
Are you aware of any generalists who succeeded?
Wardley Maps retweeted
Finding myself going back to RSS/Atom feeds a lot more recently. There's a lot more higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke. Any product that happens to look a bit different today but that has fundamentally the same incentive structures will eventually converge to the same black hole at the center of gravity well.
We should bring back RSS - it's open, pervasive, hackable.
Download a client, e.g. NetNewsWire (or vibe code one)
Cold start: example of getting off the ground, here is a list of 92 RSS feeds of blogs that were most popular on HN in 2025:
gist.github.com/emschwartz/e…
Works great and you will lose a lot fewer brain cells.
I don't know, something has to change.
One of the saddest developments in market is using low main fee ("purchase") and high punishment fees ("late fees") knowing that customers will fail to keep up their end of the contract frequently enough.
Customers do not have data to compare the impact of late fees.
This is how a north star definition looks like:
* green - situation today
* blue - massive industrialization of components to deduplicate system (high priority)
* yellow - focus on customer touchpoints to improve experience.
30 min conversation.
