I'm one half of Automatter, a newsletter about processes and the people who automate them.

I test solve crosswords and occasionally suggest clues for Grid Therapy.

See below for links to essays I've written independently.

• The 7 Powers and the Golden Path of Data Businesses: Data-as-a-service is a deeply misunderstood business model. So I wrote an essay that analyzes data businesses through the lens of Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers framework.
• Feeding the Rebels: An analysis of ghost kitchens and how restaurants can survive the dual onslaught of coronavirus and a race to the bottom on food delivery.
• A series of posts about Robotics as a Service (RaaS):
  1. **What's Really Generating Value?** — Spending capex on commodities is out of alignment with most modern business models
  2. **True Alignment** — Farming in a RaaS world
  3. RaaS Operations 101 — A few things I've learned through experience that can now guide other folks getting RaaS companies off the ground
  4. Don't Kid Yourself About (Acquisition) Cost — Build cost is such a key driver for success in a RaaS model that it seems wrong to leave it out of key metrics, so I take a shot at correcting this
• Startup pitch deck reviews:
  • My old blog
  • Humanly
  • Medios
  • **Edify** (with a very special appearance from the unpitched original deck)