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The Film Room

Big ideas, broken down to the core plays

In enterprise software sales, we replay "film" on the business in group settings like monthly and quarterly business reviews. We unpack key wins, losses, programs, initiatives, and partnerships to understand what we got right, what we got wrong, and what to change or do more of. It's no different in sports, where coaches and players use a film room to slow the game down, run it back, and pull out the moments that made the difference.

My film room works the same way. I take big ideas — the kind buried in 300-page books or hour-long talks — and distill them into key points. Source material linked below for anyone who wants to go deeper.

Light blue content = technology centric

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How great leaders inspire action

Starting with WHY in the age of AI should be front and center. Simon Sinek explores the concept of the Golden Circle to explain how certain leaders and organizations foster immense loyalty and drive action. The presentation illustrates how communicating from the inside out influences human behavior and decision-making far more effectively than traditional methods. 

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Good to Great

Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't is a management book by Jim Collins that describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies, and how most companies fail to make the transition.

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How to Speak So People Actually Listen

Patrick Winston's legendary final MIT lecture on the heuristics of great communication. How you present ideas determines how those ideas are received — and ultimately, your success in any endeavor. Rules for speaking that compounds your impact over a career.

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Software 3.0
Context Is the New Code

"Software is eating the world. AI is eating software. And the last thing left standing will be the humans who understood what they were building — and why."

Andrej Karpathy, Sequoia AI Ascent,
March 2026

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AI Leaves Earth

Was this topic on your bingo card for this decade? The day may not be that far away where you ask your customer which orbital datacenter they are planning to use & offer your "constellation recommendation" based off their use case's. 

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Partner Business Management System (BMS)

A ready-to-use template for frontline Partner Manager leaders to customize for their business. This BMS captures the universal, core fundamentals of running a high-performing partner business: pipeline reviews, deal reviews, forecasting, QBRs, enablement, and more. Built from the field, for the field

Light brown = business or leadership centric

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The AI Layer Cake

I mapped the full stack using Jensen Huang's 5-layer cake framework: energy, chips, infrastructure, models, and applications, with the companies competing at every layer as an interactive guide on my site.

Click any layer of the AI Cake to explore.

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The Hyperscaler
Co-Sell Reset 2026

Badges are out. Pipeline, marketplace revenue, and proven outcomes are in.
 

A field guide for ISV founders and alliance leaders deciding where to build a partnership motion. Sources cited in document.

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SyncFolders for macOS

SyncFolders is a backup & recovery application for macOS, Apple Silicon only. I built the app using Claude Code Fable 5. Select the source folder to backup and the destination, then schedule the frequency and backup type. (Full, updates, mirror). The app is signed by Apple.

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You're the Greatest!

Early in my career, I had the privilege of meeting and hearing Francis Maguire speak to our team at Computer Associates in NY. His humility, leadership approach and masterful storytelling resonated with me and has been embedded in my style every since, both personally & professionally. His book serves as a management guide, emphasizing that essential leadership ingredients are universal and focus on people, not just materials. 

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