Your Offer Structure is Killing Your Brand
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On Positioning
Positioning has been the most important idea I've understood this year. I always thought it was about being different, about holding a specific space in the mind of your audience. That is part of it. But the true meaning is more active:…
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Working on things that scale
Over the past 6-8 weeks, I've been spending most of my waking hours designing workflows, systems and apps more than actual design artifacts. Even though it's slowed me down on client work, this season was a tight window to set the…
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AI is really just templatised knowledge
It dawned on me the other day, that AI is simply templatised knowledge or templatised thinking to be a bit more accurate. And this is something we have always done as human beings. We have always converted knowledge, frameworks, know-how,…
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Language as the new interface
Working with Claude this whole week, I realised that text and voice are the new interface. I've been designing, generating, and creating all week, and most of it has been through prompting — typing, talking through changes and thinking,…
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The buyout wave has made brand the acquisition value, not just the go-to-market layer. Every African operator now needs a brand built for sale, scale, or both.
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Brand as
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The buyout wave has made brand the acquisition value, not just the go-to-market layer. Every African operator now needs a brand built for sale, scale, or both.
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