Research
Reference documents behind the notes — verified math, calibration data, and playbook material from real operating work. Fewer opinions, more tables. Each item pairs with the essay that uses it.
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July 5, 2026
The Strategy Stack: An Integrated Operating System from the Great Strategists and Operators
The strategy canon — Porter, Christensen, Moore, Helmer, Ries & Trout, Dunford, Rumelt, Thiel, Grove, Kim & Mauborgne, Ben Thompson, plus the capital judgment of Munger, Buffett, Bezos, Hastings, Huang, and Jobs — organized into five interacting layers: the battle for the mind, the battle for economics, the battle with time, the craft of diagnosis, and the discipline of allocation. Where the frameworks reinforce each other, where they flatly contradict and how to adjudicate, a ten-step decision protocol with kill-gates, and six historical cases a single lens misses.
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July 3, 2026
SCM Planning Reference: The Math Behind an Inventory Loop
The research pass that calibrated an agentic inventory-planning loop, verified claim-by-claim by adversarial agents: safety stock formulas with service-level z-tables, periodic-review policy for a Mon+Thu cadence, China-lane lead-time variability and CNY buffers, transfer-vs-reorder decision rules, freight economics seeds, and a machine-readable config block. Companion to The Inventory Loop.