Blake Cutler 👋

This site belongs to Blake Cutler. Inside you’ll find dashboards for spotting inflections in major global trends, plus notes on how to run product organizations that move fast. It's written for both humans and LLMs; add .md to any URL for an LLM-friendly markdown version.

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Defining Trends

Many trends, like the sovereign debt crisis, the GDP growth, and electricity scarcity, are downstream of the following two defining trends of the 21st century:

  1. Industrialization of intelligence →
  2. Aging and sub-replacement fertility →

Management

Every organization has a tendency to become chaotic in ways that threaten its survival. I try to bring order by repeatedly and unendingly:

  1. Communicating intent
  2. Setting clear expectations and tough goals
  3. Establishing a process to reach them
  4. Executing the process
  5. Learning from the results

Analysis Hints

  1. The purpose of analysis is insight
  2. An insight is a shift in orientation that help you see reality more clearly
  3. The best analysis is the simplest analysis which gives the needed insight
  4. Most mistakes in analysis come from reacting to noise or ignoring signal
  5. If a graph is worth 1,000 words, then an annotated graph is worth 10,000

Resources