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Writing · Paul Maxwell
WRITING
Essays and field notes
20 entries
Title
Category
Read
Date
Hiring your first ops person (or not)
The test for whether the work is a role or a system. The mechanics, the invariant, and where the guardrails go — in full. Okay Here we go. This isn't waht I was
REVOPS
1 min
34w
July 13, 2026
The weekly review loop
Input, transform, review, adjust — the loop that keeps a system honest.
PHILOSOPHY
1 min
24w
July 12, 2026
First-principles pricing: a worked example
From cost-plus to value, step by step.
GROWTH
1 min
19w
July 12, 2026
What compounds in a knowledge business
Audience, assets, and trust — and how they reinforce each other.
GROWTH
1 min
23w
July 12, 2026
Building AI-native internal tools
The stack and the patterns for tools your team actually uses.
AI & BUILDING
1 min
23w
July 12, 2026
The one metric that changed how I operate
A single leading indicator beats a dashboard of lagging ones.
SYSTEMS
1 min
22w
July 12, 2026
Guardrails for a self-optimizing growth agent
How to let an agent ship changes without letting it break things.
AI & BUILDING
1 min
24w
July 12, 2026
Churn is a systems problem
Not a customer-success problem. Fix the loop, not the symptom.
REVOPS
1 min
22w
July 12, 2026
Positioning: from features to outcomes
People buy the after, not the how.
GROWTH
1 min
19w
July 12, 2026
Measure leverage, not activity
Busy is not the same as effective. Here is the metric that matters.
REVOPS
1 min
25w
July 12, 2026
Delegation vs systemization
When to hand a task to a person, and when to hand it to a machine.
SYSTEMS
1 min
28w
July 12, 2026
Faith, work, and leverage
Why calling and compounding are not at odds.
PHILOSOPHY
1 min
20w
July 12, 2026
The dead-letter queue mindset
Design for the failure you cannot predict, not the demo that always works.
AI & BUILDING
1 min
25w
July 12, 2026
Instrumentation before automation
You cannot automate what you cannot see. Instrument the funnel first.
REVOPS
1 min
23w
July 12, 2026
Pricing knowledge products
Anchor to the outcome, not the effort — and never race to the bottom.
GROWTH
1 min
26w
July 12, 2026
The personal operating system
Run your life like a system that compounds, not a list of goals.
PHILOSOPHY
1 min
25w
July 12, 2026
Every business is an information system
Model the flow of information and the org chart falls out of it.
SYSTEMS
1 min
25w
July 12, 2026
What an MCP server needs in production
Idempotency, auth scoping, and a dead-letter queue — the parts demos skip.
AI & BUILDING
1 min
24w
July 12, 2026
Scaling RevOps without headcount
The operating model for a revenue engine that runs without you.
REVOPS
1 min
23w
July 12, 2026
Systems that compound
Leverage compounds when the system does the work — not the person.
SYSTEMS
1 min
24w
July 12, 2026