A strategy practice & research newsletter by Peteris Erins.
Hey There, I love business building. Having said that, my bar for reading business content has only gone up. I rarely see books worth reading in the bookstore. Instead, I prefer to find the "best person at X" and watch them do a podcast. There's one book I did actually
Hi There, It's been years since we talked. But that's on me. See I was always bad at writing. Couldn't write a good essay at school. Luckily I knew a bit of math. Got as far as McKinsey where I nearly got kicked out for subpar "communication skills". Ouch. I
Ash Fontana, Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners recently published the AI-First Company , a strategy book on AI for the entrepreneur and executive. Knowing Ash and the depth of his thinking on AI, I bought and read the book immediately. Ash was also kind enough to provide some additional insight
I am impressed by those who bet their livelihood on Bitcoin. Not the dabblers, but the mad. It takes courage to invest in Bitcoin. It could be made illegal or taxed in unpredictable ways. Your family could be threatened and your money stolen. Foreign governments could issue cyberthreats. The likelihood
I recently had the opportunity to discuss my research process with the wonderful OnDeck Writing community. This was targeted at writers but includes methods I learned at McKinsey doing consulting and product management and then evolved using tools like Twitter and Roam Research. Research for writers from Peteris Erins
A number of companies have recently started assembling Bitcoin treasuries. There are two good websites for tracking these purchases. MicroStrategy currently has the largest known Bitcoin reserve (71,079 BTC) with 36% of the market cap attributed to the market value of their Bitcoin reserve. They recently started to dabble
The time of initiating New Year's resolutions is fast approaching. 2020 may have been particularly disruptive to any sort of planning (for example, I count several holidays, a triathlon and a language test as just a couple of the unfulfillable plans I had for the year), but this does not
In What's Your Moat , Jason Lemkin lists several moats (sources of defensibility) that apply to SaaS businesses. I categorised them based on the 7 Powers framework by Hamilton Helmer and found two powers missing (Cornered Resource and Process Power). While Cornered Resources (such as a strong early team) are commonly
Some of you have inquired about a newsletter archive. It's now available at peteriserins.com . Since I've recently migrated from Squarespace to Ghost , the blog and the newsletter are now merged in one. Also, in case you are wondering, there haven't been new updates to the newsletter as I'm working
In 2016, I wrote an article for an industry article Reliability Web about the role Reliability Engineers can take in Predictive Maintenance. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that predictive maintenance solutions will have a potential impact of nearly $630 billion per year in 2025 in manufacturing alone. This level of
This post will lean heavily on existing guides, bringing them all together to ensure that your blog content migrates without issues. NOTE : This post already assumes you have installed Ghost. If you haven't, I recommend either installing Ghost Pro or going the Digital Ocean Droplet route by starting with these
Dear Reader, I guess this week's theme is that during COVID we can continue to focus on our personal growth systems in fitness and productivity, think about where the Valley is heading and enjoy our traditional sports in a new esports context. Stay safe & strong. 1/ #roamcult TL:DR;
Dear Reader, Celebrate the end-of-the world with awesome end-of-the-world music and tools to work and exercise remotely. 1/ An album recommendation from me and the Grammys TL:DR; Find "Father of the Bride" on your favorite music service. Vampire Weekend sounds like a teenage chick flick, but is the name
Dear Reader, Auditless has been keeping me pretty busy in January, but I've been itching to write this update. 1/ I launched a thing - new approach to SEO TL:DR; Auditless launched a cheat sheet for Ethereum programming languages: https://reference.auditless.com/ . Here's a couple of things I've
Dear Reader, As this year is coming to a close, wanted to review the best links we have featured, my favorite books and a couple of other callouts. Don't forget to forward to someone else who may enjoy some of these links. For timely recommendations scroll down to the end