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Field Notes

Field Notes

Short essays on the assumptions going quietly obsolete inside businesses — and how to read the interval before it closes.

The system of record was built on an assumption nobody wrote down

For fifty years, enterprise software assumed people do the work and systems record it. That assumption is going obsolete right now — and most organizations are still budgeting as if it isn’t.

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Sixty days: what the signals looked like before anyone read them

The ordinary, unremarkable signs that a shift is already underway — reduced seats, silent prospects, the competitor nobody names — and why they are so easy to ignore.

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The assumption that feels safest is the one already going obsolete

Why the belief a business is most confident about is usually the one the market is quietly pricing out — and how to read the interval before it closes.

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