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NOT NORMAL
A random collection of back-of-the-envelope calculations, short stories, half-baked theories, bad poems, and more.
Many of these relate to the idea of normalcy, what it entails, and what it does not.
We are fortunate to live in a time where right and wrong, traditions, and norms are being renegotiated.
Yet, only through exploring what is normal can we experience the depths of the clash.
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White, Brown, Silicon: A Natural Progression in Capability Building
Five years ago, I wrote about my views on the next offshoring. The first "browned" our TMTs. This one promises to turn them Silicon.
Oct 24, 2025
Scaling a Golden Shadow
We often think of our mistakes, how to minimize them, and remove them. But out there is a life we could grow into. Why not explore it more?
Oct 11, 2025
Dialectical Contributions: Triangles All the Way Up
Hegel argues that the history of change is one of opposing ideas and their convergence into new levels of understanding. These, Hegelian...
Mar 7, 2025
Munificent Labor Markets Create Flater Firms
Where, I link civil rights to the emergence of flatter firms, the rise in CEO compensation, the decrease in care work at home, and more.
May 17, 2024
Admission Officers the Gatekeepers of Science
Admission officers have an outsized power over the future of science, yet their selection procedures lack objectivity.
Aug 28, 2023
Non-Newtonian Routine Dynamics
Routines encompass how organizations change. Somehow, our ontologies fail to acknowledge how diverse their shear change can be.
Jun 2, 2023
On Planned Excommunication Not Obsolescence
Obsolescence is partly a choice we make. Excommunication is a choice firms make to stop having us using our products we bought from them.
Apr 17, 2023
The Case for the Journal of Organization Science Experiments
Where I make a call to create the Journal of Organization Science Experiments. Godspeed to JOSE
Apr 1, 2023
On Alter Egos and Algorithms at Work
An ode to the beauty that lies within ethnographies from the naive eyes of someone whose ADHD will never let him do one.
Dec 9, 2022
Yes, and: On the Improv Logic of Sustainable Development
In a world in which ESG ratings have low correlations, is improvisation a way out? If we do not who is right, then no one is wrong? #IDK
Aug 24, 2022
A Pseudotheory on the Pursuit of Equality and of Lost Prosperity
This post builds huge implications from one societal change. I cannot imagine it's falsifiable. But its pseudotheory never leaves my head.
Aug 22, 2022
The Laziness Based View
Laziness is the key defining principle of the systems that made us. Yet business defines our lives. Chill down, act like a system!
Apr 10, 2022
Compersion as an Organizational Form
Economics builds on the logic of scarcity, itself a form of jealousy. Compersion is the opposite, it builds on joy and pursuing curiosity
Mar 25, 2022
Households and Entrepreneurs
A couple of thoughts on the elemental particles of micro and macro-economics, their connections and dynamics.
Mar 18, 2022
Positive: A Story of Disruption
Is there a better example of ambidexterity than the meteoric rise of COVID a toddler with a giant's market reach? An ode to a disruptor.
Feb 22, 2022
Google as a Pay per View Service
We pay to watch Netflix. Advertisers pay to let us use Google's products. What if we outbid them and pay for Google ourselves?
Dec 10, 2021
Whim Delivery: A Thriving Industry Along the Great Resignation
Lately a new niche developed. We can get things delivered in 15 minutes of less. But is that progress prosperous?
Nov 13, 2021
On the WEIRD HENRY WASP
The market segment composed of these three sets of acronyms describes one of the most coveted market segments. That is wrong.
Oct 26, 2021
CityHub and Disruption
Many a eager beaver CEO has laid awake at now hashing plans to disrupt their industries. Some have succeeded. Many more have failed. This...
Oct 22, 2021
Socialized Household-chore Specialization
As housework becomes shared by both partners how should our organizations adapt?
Oct 17, 2021
Magic and Strategic Kryptonite
The revelation principle of mechanism design is an amazing piece of work. It feels like magic to me, a kind of magic, I cannot perform.
Aug 18, 2021
Don't Expect People to be Exceptional
How often do you feel people need you to be exceptionally great? It's tiring, no? Here I equate exceptionally to luck and give some thoughts
Aug 16, 2021
The Contingent Leader
Where I argue that leaders are neither born nor chosen, they emerge from situations that require them.
Jun 24, 2021
New Venture M.Sc.
An idea about pushing entrepreneurship education forward. Note that I am no entrepreneurship scholar.
Jun 1, 2021
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