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Kenzie Notes: Why Most Business Goals Fail (And What Small Businesses Actually Need Instead)
Nov 05, 2025

Kenzie Notes: Why Most Business Goals Fail (And What Small Businesses Actually Need Instead)

The 3-question reality check that reveals whether your goals are helping or quietly sabotaging your business.

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
My Secret Education System: How Hollywood's Weirdest Characters Became My Mentors
Oct 31, 2025

My Secret Education System: How Hollywood's Weirdest Characters Became My Mentors

Three fictional characters taught me everything that actually matters about building products, leading teams, and thinking impossibly.

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
Why too much information makes AI less useful and 3 questions that fix it
Oct 23, 2025

Why too much information makes AI less useful and 3 questions that fix it

Why front-loading more information actually makes Claude perform worse—and how most people are accidentally sabotaging their own AI assistant

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
Why your tools are costing more than they're worth, and how to fix it without starting over
Oct 16, 2025

Why your tools are costing more than they're worth, and how to fix it without starting over

How to avoid the trap of thinking technology can solve human collaboration problems

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
Why customer surveys lie, where your customers really talk, and how to spot trends before they go mainstream
Oct 10, 2025

Why customer surveys lie, where your customers really talk, and how to spot trends before they go mainstream

How systematic observation of customer conversations in their natural digital habitats transforms reactive research into predictive competitive intelligence

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
Kenzie Notes: Survival skills for the future of work,  and the metaskills that make everything else easier
Oct 01, 2025

Kenzie Notes: Survival skills for the future of work, and the metaskills that make everything else easier

How the fundamental human abilities that help you learn, adapt, and thrive across any context are becoming essential professional survival skills

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
Kenzie Notes: The waiter's secret to productivity, and why you're optimizing the wrong thing
Sep 25, 2025

Kenzie Notes: The waiter's secret to productivity, and why you're optimizing the wrong thing

Why your daily tool-switching is costing you more than you think, and the simple restaurant lesson that can transform your deep work capacity

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
Kenzie Notes: On leadership blind spots, strategic vulnerability, and why looking in your own mirror isn't enough
Jul 24, 2025

Kenzie Notes: On leadership blind spots, strategic vulnerability, and why looking in your own mirror isn't enough

The ASK and TELL framework that reveals what you can't see about yourself + 4 AI prompts to make it easier

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
Kenzie Notes: On problem obsession, solution addiction, and why the best answers come from better questions
Jul 18, 2025

Kenzie Notes: On problem obsession, solution addiction, and why the best answers come from better questions

Why falling in love with problems beats falling in love with your first idea

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
Kenzie Notes: On intelligence traps, intellectual humility, and why you don't need to be the smartest person in the room
Jul 10, 2025

Kenzie Notes: On intelligence traps, intellectual humility, and why you don't need to be the smartest person in the room

Foolish people think they have everything figured out and are eager to prove it. The truly intelligent have learned they don't have to.

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
Kenzie Notes: On AI amplifiers, thinking partnerships, and why being faster at being wrong isn't progress
Jul 03, 2025

Kenzie Notes: On AI amplifiers, thinking partnerships, and why being faster at being wrong isn't progress

The teams winning with AI aren't the ones with the fanciest tools—they're the ones who already knew how to think critically.

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
Kenzie Notes: On creating adaptive AI capacity, and understanding the latest tools
Jun 18, 2025

Kenzie Notes: On creating adaptive AI capacity, and understanding the latest tools

Your brilliant business still needs better stories, and AI can help

Kelsey Ruger
Kelsey Ruger
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