Some information belongs in a tool. Some belongs on a wall everyone walks past. We stopped trying to make the whiteboard digital.
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.
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