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The sweet spot in the missing middle.
Small-TAM tech companies that build software for mid-size clients in traditional industries fill a big and underserved niche, have a counterintuitive…
Nov 30
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October 2024
Meaningmaking and not-knowing.
Finally, a prominent thinker injects the idea of "meaningmaking" (sort of) into the discourse on AI.
Oct 31
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Vaughn Tan
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September 2024
AI's missing middle
AI investment is missing a huge opportunity in the form of industry-specific AI apps designed to integrate with legacy business processes in…
Sep 18
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Vaughn Tan
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August 2024
Meaningmaking at work.
To build successful AI applications, product management must comprehend meaningmaking — making subjective decisions about the relative values of things.
Aug 21
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Vaughn Tan
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July 2024
AI's seductive mirage.
tl;dr: AI's seductive mirage is that it seems to do everything humans can do — but AI systems can't make meaning. Understanding this helps us build good…
Jul 24
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June 2024
Sawdust and aluminum shavings.
In which making built-in shelving makes me think about strategic tradeoffs — with links to three earlier essays on tradeoffs and strategy.
Jun 26
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Vaughn Tan
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Where AI wins.
What AI systems do better than humans, and why the most valuable AI workflows will be those in which AI systems and humans work interdependently on what…
Jun 12
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May 2024
AI's meaning-making problem.
Current AI discourse doesn't talk about human meaning-making — subjective decisions about value that AI systems can't make, which are nonetheless…
May 22
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Vaughn Tan
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An end to firefighting
Explains why organizational firefighting is so common in policy teams, and how to use an uncertainty mindset to put a stop to it.
May 8
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Vaughn Tan
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April 2024
Sneaky innovation
I unpack the reasoning behind a product strategy workshop I run where teams learn-by-doing four key skills of effective innovation work: Asking good…
Apr 24
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Vaughn Tan
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A good start
Why and when to begin with amorphous consulting.
Apr 10
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Vaughn Tan
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March 2024
Amorphous consulting
Amorphous consulting is for the problems organizations can’t put words to yet.
Mar 27
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