Long-form notes on systems, places, books, and the questions worth sitting with. Written by a working operator — not a writer pretending to know.
Read the index ↓Cal Newport's framework works. It just works for a very specific category of worker — and pretending otherwise is a quiet form of class blindness.
Cal Newport's thesis is correct. It's also only available to people who already won. For the rest of us, the calendar is not ours to close.
The disruption isn't dramatic. It's the quiet elimination of the price floor that used to protect adequate work — and the people who depended on it.
Not jobs. Not creativity. AI is eliminating the price floor on mediocre work. The protection that average quality once provided is gone — and most people haven't noticed yet.
Taleb's framework maps almost perfectly onto supply network design. The irony is that supply chain people rarely read it.
The book that explains supply chain risk better than any supply chain book. Also the book most frequently used to justify inaction dressed up as optionality.
Every article comes in two formats. Quick insights when you're short on time, or deep dives when you want the full picture.
Key insights, infographics, and data charts. Perfect for a 3-minute coffee break. Every article distilled to its essence.
In-depth analysis with original research, expert interviews, historical context, and comprehensive citations. For serious readers.
Zuloma is a publication for thoughtful readers — the kind who would rather read for an hour than scroll for ten minutes. The work spans four lanes that, on a closer look, are the same lane: systems, places, books, and the questions of the moment.
It is written from inside the work — fourteen years of supply-chain transformations, a reading habit that predates either career, and a passport with too many stamps. Nothing here is in a hurry. Every piece is reported, read into, and rewritten until it earns its length.
No listicles. No "top ten" anything. No words that exist only to fill sentences. If you've ever closed a tab feeling slightly worse for having opened it, Zuloma is meant to be the other thing.
A single, considered email. One essay, one idea, one book worth your attention. No tracking, no clickbait, no "10 best" anything.
Every transformation looks the same after the demo. The system goes live. Forecast accuracy improves for six weeks. Then, around month four, something stalls — and it is rarely the software…