Which Founder CEO archetype are you working with?
A practical framework for working with Founder CEOs: map founders across expertise vs vision and trust-building vs control-seeking, then adapt your operator playbook.
Alex Catalán Flores
Doing good, finding efficiencies, errant thoughts.
Latest posts
Changing my own mind about fluoride by almost shitposting about a water filter startup
I was ready to slam Water2's fluoride filter as harmful. Then I read the neurotoxicity research.
Which is the best protein bar?
I crunched the numbers on 42 protein bars to find out which ones actually give you the most muscle-building goodness per calorie and pound spent.
This is why they think we're a joke
Progressivism is a laughing stock.
Harris had a bad night on many fronts
All indicators I was watching didn't deliver good news for Harris.
What I'm watching out for on Election Night
Arranging my tea leaves and dowsing rods to try to guess which way our American friends will go.
What’s the purpose of HR?
When optimising for the right thing, HR can be transformational.
Wack shit Britain does
Britain be bananas.
Can you screen out job applicants who aren’t vegan?
TL;DR — UK law allows the screening of job applicants based on their veganism, but it's recommended to do so only when being vegan is a genuine occupational requirement.
Bringing your whole self to work is a distraction
There are two ideas here, both with which I agree, but they are connected in a way I hadn’t realised until recently. On one side is the mantra that organisations should aspire to be teams, not families . The former focuses on performance and achieving collective goals, while the
An Ops Manager isn’t your Personal Assistant
I work in Operations Management, and over the years I’ve encountered many tea leaf readings of what this means. It’s always been uncertain where Ops Management ends, and while we can probably all agree that buying groceries and cooking for people is a step too far,
Are your job applicants representative of the labour market? A statistical way to check
Use binomial testing to figure out whether your job applicant pool is diverse enough.
Why the Taliban will need to be different this time — in 3 charts
The internet, girls’ education and better standards of living will force the Taliban to govern Afghanistan differently.
3 Things that Happen if the United Nations Disappears Tomorrow
Millions would starve, 150K innocent people would die in conflict and half the world’s children would go unvaccinated.
Supreme Court Judges Are Now Openly Throwing Jabs at Each Other
We need to talk about the US Supreme Court these past few days. If the justices of the Court all lived together in the apartment next door…