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LatestMeetingsApr 2026Your Company Has a Meeting Problem. Here's the Data to Prove It.The average manager spends 23 hours per week in meetings. The average IC spends 14. At some point, meetings stopped being a tool and became the entire job.Read the post →

ScalingApr 2026
What Breaks When You Scale from 50 to 200 People
The journey from 50 to 200 employees is where startups become companies, or fall apart trying. The informal patterns that worked brilliantly at 50 become the exact things that break at 200.
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Org StructureApr 2026
The Org Chart Is Fiction. Here's What the Real Organization Looks Like.
Every company has two organizational structures: the one on the slide deck and the one that actually governs how work gets done. The gap between them is where operational risk hides.
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What Breaks When You Scale from 50 to 200 People

The Org Chart Is Fiction. Here's What the Real Organization Looks Like.

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