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Category: Wardley Mapping

  • Tasshin Interviews Ben on Strategy

    Tasshin Interviews Ben on Strategy

    This is a rapidfire overview of strategic methods that Tasshin Fogleman and I recorded back in July of 2020. He’s edited it together for the Reach Truth Podcast, which you can check out at his YouTube channel here. I recommend watching the video directly on YouTube, since there are important links in the description that…

  • Principles vs Context: It’s Not About Choice

    Principles vs Context: It’s Not About Choice

    For Map Camp 2020, I had the absolute privilege of co-delivering a session with Farrah Campbell and Cat Swetel on principles in Wardley Mapping.

  • On Understanding the Self: Mapping and the Annual Review

    On Understanding the Self: Mapping and the Annual Review

    Back when I thought I needed to work in cubicles the rest of my life, I did something similar to this with mapping. I believe @kelseyhightower has as well. I do wish I had @MaturityMapping at my fingertips back then. It might have helped me struggle less. Oh, was I ever fighting myself while trying to figure out how…

  • For Founders

    For Founders

    Let’s talk about purposeful organizations, the overwhelm of too many sources of information, and what errors to avoid as a founder. [I]n an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of…

  • Evolution and Being in Genesis

    Evolution and Being in Genesis

    How do you get through beginnings? What does it mean to be in Genesis? If you broke your work (and everything around it) down into parts, which ones are truly in genesis, and which ones have been done before (in other situations by other people)? The trick is to re-use and adapt what others have…