The field notes
Ideas for a world
that won’t sit still.
Research, examples, and questions about strategy, play, and how we prepare for what comes next.
2026
Oct 9Make the Moves Reinforce One Another↗Aug 18When Customers Stop Paying for the DifferenceStrategy · Adaptation↗Jun 30The Move That Changes Your Next Move↗May 12When Yesterday’s Advantage Becomes a Habit↗Mar 10An AI Opponent Needs a Seat at the TableDeveloper diary · Strategic simulations↗Jan 13An Adjacent Market Still Has to FitStrategy · Growth↗
2025
Dec 9Start With the Hardest Question↗Oct 14Rethink the Business You Think You’re InStrategy · Innovation↗Aug 12Choose the Next Reachable Objective↗Jun 17Scale Is Not a TrophyStrategy · Growth↗Apr 8When Trade Changes the GameDeveloper diary · Strategic simulations↗Feb 11Make Room for Useful DisagreementStrategy · Teams↗
2024
Dec 10An Ambition Is Not a Strategy↗Oct 8Look Past the Industry LabelStrategy · Customers↗Aug 13A Policy People Can Use Without You↗Jun 18Growth Can Blur What Made You DistinctStrategy · Growth↗Apr 9What Changes When a City Changes Hands?Developer diary · Strategic simulations↗Feb 13When One Weak Link Sets the Pace↗
2023
Dec 12An Audience Is Not Yet a PositionStrategy · Customers↗Oct 10Focus Is What the Strategy Leaves Out↗Aug 15First Is Not EnoughStrategy · Competition↗Jun 20Think Before the Room Thinks for YouStrategy · Teams↗Apr 11Before We Add Trade to EmpireDeveloper diary · Strategic simulations↗Feb 14Let the Future Play Back↗
2022
Apr 12How to use chess strategy for career successStrategy↗Apr 12Life Advice from NYC Chess Hustlers - by Anne KadetStrategy↗Apr 12Seizing The Middle: Chess Strategy in Business - Farnam StreetStrategy↗Apr 11Being playful is a biological imperative, even for adultsOrganization · Play↗Apr 11CABINET / The Game of War: Debord as StrategistStrategy↗Apr 11Challenging ‘rule breakers’ – children will confront their peers, but how they do so varies across cultures - University of PlymouthPlay↗Apr 11The Playful Corporation. By Martin Reeves, Jack Fuller and… | by BCG Henderson Institute | BCG Henderson InstitutePlay↗Apr 11Those That Game Together, Stay Together - Neuroscience NewsPlay↗Apr 10Kids can learn more from guided play than direct instruction, studies sayPlay↗
2021
Oct 4Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win?Uncategorized · Play↗Oct 4Gamers know the power of ‘flow’ — what if learners could harness it too?Uncategorized · Play↗Oct 4Wanna Play?Uncategorized · Play↗Jul 25Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory - IEEE SpectrumPlay↗Jul 25How to stop wasting time scrolling and start finding joy in playUncategorized · Play↗Jul 25Play is cathartic, allowing people to sit with their shadows | Aeon EssaysPlay↗Jul 25Play is serious business for animalsUncategorized · Play↗