Steal Like a Snake
Steal Like an Artist, but for people whose toddler has ruined Zootopia 2 for them.
Jon Hartmann
Retail Media & E-Commerce Leader & Software Architect.
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Throughline: Finding the Leading Indicator Inside Your Lagging Metric
I built a small tool that maps your metrics and solves backward from the goal to the levers.
Techne Over Mania
The Greeks split making into techne, the craft you can teach, and mania, the inspiration you can't. AI made mania cheap. The craft is the whole job now.
The Most Useful Planning Tool You’ll Ever Learn
The most common activity in software engineering isn’t writing code.
A Walk Down Memory Lane
Resurrecting my old "portfolio" from 2006-2013.
The Pope & The Infinite Game
The Pope has a moral framework. Aristotle would not be surprised.
A Step Toward Better Conversations
When I launched this Substack, my friend Glen Stovall at State Transition asked me what I actually wanted to get out of it.
Neurotic Leadership
Why the corporate ideal of the unflappable leader is incompatible with becoming a better one
Architecture & Dragons
RPG Rules, Software Systems, and the Craft They Have in Common
The Glass Cage and The Chinese Room
How do we operate with agency in a world of agents?
The Age of Scorpi-otes
Our world is full of promising ideas that are killing us and themselves, and they just can't help it.