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Beginning Balance

Jan 28, 2022

Mark and Jesse discuss the best indicators for determining why your business is growing, and how to grow it in the future. These are very different from trailing indicators, things like the P&L which summarize what happened in the past. Understanding what actually drives growth in your business is difficult work,...


Jan 21, 2022

A lot of companies are fond of saying this about their employees and their work culture -- "we're like a family here." Usually it's coming from a good place, wanting to emphasize the bond that employees have in a collaborative, productive work environment, but Jesse argues it's misleading and potentially harmful...


Jan 14, 2022

If the title sounds like a philosophy paper... well, maybe it is. A philosophical discussion at least! Jesse has been reading Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, a book which poses some deep questions about human mortality and weighing what we choose to do against the seemingly infinite...