Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
The decision of the U.S. to shut off intelligence and throttle the military version of Starlink called Starshield to Ukraine may have been a...
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20 of 322 episodesThe Lean Educator Conference
Announcing a Lean Educators Conference. Teaching Lean in the Age of AI. November 18-19th at K&S Ranch, California.
Subterranean Warfare – An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner
The DoW urgently needs to organize its scattered subterranean warfare assets into a single unified organization. Ideally, a Direct Reporting...
Lean LaunchPad – The Next Generation
This is a four-part series on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it.
The World Outside the Classroom Changed, The Class Didn’t
This is the third of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it.
AI Killed the MVP – Long Live the IUP
This is the second of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it.
The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same
15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught. The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide...
Lean Launch Pad 2026 @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations
We just finished the 16th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. In those 16 years, the class has gone from a radical idea – that the Lean...
Incorruptible
Every once in a while a book comes along that doesn’t just change your tactical thinking, but makes you see the world in a different way. Re...
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense, and the impact of asy...
Anthropic Mythos – We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box
For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event – the day a Cryptographically Relevant Qua...
AI and Teaching – The Brave New World
This is the 16th year we’ve been teaching the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. This year, from the first hour of the first class, we realized...
Nowhere is Safe
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superio...
Solving Yesterday’s Problems Will Kill You
The Department of War is in the midst of the most ambitious acquisition reform in 60 years. It’s just in time as drone and missile warfare l...
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true. You need to stop coding, bui...
Time to Move On – The Reason Relationships End
A while ago I wrote about what happens in a startup when a new event creates a wake-up call that makes founding engineers reevaluate their j...
You Only Think They Work For You
When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. Later I realized that it...
Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32
Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
Every once in a while you learn something new that makes you completely rethink how/why an event actually happened. And then you consider ho...
Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War
The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is he...