About Azimuth

Azimuth is a weekly newsletter about how small teams make decisions - the ones about money, tools, people and timing that don't make it into a case study, but decide how the year actually goes.

I'm Ida Mercer. I write every issue from Rotterdam, usually on a Thursday, usually about something that happened that week - a hire that went sideways, a budget line we finally cut, a tool we adopted and then quietly stopped using.

What you can expect

  • A free weekly issue, every week, no exceptions.
  • A monthly deep dive for Azimuth Plus members - longer, slower, more research.
  • No sponsored placements disguised as advice.

If you run a team of two people or twenty, this is written for you.

Ida Mercer

I write Azimuth from Rotterdam. Before this I ran operations at two small companies and spent a lot of that time watching good teams make avoidable mistakes under time pressure - my own included. This newsletter is the notebook I wish I'd had.