Charles Blain
See Different. Think Different.

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10
Feb

The Fairway Signal

Wall Street spent the early 2000s building models. Quantitative systems processing millions of data points. Risk algorithms monitoring every basis
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09
Feb

Quality Is Love

Before Avedis Donabedian, there was no systematic way to know if a hospital was saving patients or killing them. He
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06
Feb

Execution, Not Selection

Someone told Seth Godin they were "waiting for a really good idea." His response: "A Broadway show
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05
Feb

Vocabulary Debt

You've noticed that AI "hallucination" debates go in circles. The word itself is the reason. When
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04
Feb

One Word, Three Things

Your CEO says "AI strategy." Your engineer says "AI can't do that." They'
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03
Feb

Logos Are Conversations

TOMS wasn't a charity. It was a status machine disguised as philanthropy. And the logo was the receipt.
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02
Feb

Walk or Optimize

Strategic optimization killed them. The team with the strongest animals, full supplies, and adaptive planning froze to death 11 miles
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30
Jan

The Root Node

You simplified. You prioritized. You still didn't make progress. It's not because you cut too little.
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29
Jan

Your Chaos, Their Tuesday

You mapped every touchpoint. Built the funnel. Tracked the metrics. And customers still behave like chaos. It's not
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28
Jan

The 58% Lie

Everyone claims they learn from experience. Almost no one does. Because experience without a record is just a story you
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