https://costeve.com/mainPages/Blog_pages.html Source of Truth — Stefano Costa's blog en-us https://costeve.com/blogPosts/RSS_logo.png https://costeve.com/mainPages/Blog_pages.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/September%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html <p><strong>September MBA: I am not a Juicer Business</strong></p><p>ES: field notes from one month of experience</p><p>1 Oct 2026 - 9 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Juicer Business vs Value Business</li></ul></p> Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/September%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/August%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html <p><strong>August MBA: Why people buy bullshit</strong></p><p>ES: field notes from one month of experience</p><p>1 Sep 2026 - 9 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Ideas need balance and businesses need geometry</li><li>Identity Based and Problem Based</li></ul></p> Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/August%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/July%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html <p><strong>July MBA: A sex education post</strong></p><p>ES: field notes from one month of experience</p><p>1 Aug 2026 - 6 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Marketing is like teen sex</li><li>B2C : B2B = Lagrange : Euler</li></ul></p> Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/July%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/Books%20that%20have%20changed%20my%20life.html <p><strong>Books that have changed my life</strong></p><p>ES: Personal and retrospective, filtered through hindsight and some dramatisation.</p><p>4 Jul 2026 - 18 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (age 12–13)</li><li>Alcatraz: A DJ on Death Row (age 13–15)</li><li>The Flowers of Evil (age 18)</li><li>80,000 Hours (during bachelor's degree)</li><li>Docs for Developers + Every Page is Page One (end of my master's)</li><li>The Power of Business Process Improvement (two months before quitting academia)</li><li>What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 (while quitting my new job)</li><li>The Gervais Principle (shortly after quitting)</li><li>The Last Lecture (start of self-employment)</li><li>Conclusion</li></ul></p> Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/Books%20that%20have%20changed%20my%20life.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/June%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html <p><strong>June MBA: Before selling the seashell, understand the sea shore</strong></p><p>ES: field notes from one month of experience</p><p>1 Jul 2026 - 5 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Understand the sea before you fish</li><li>No board, no dice</li></ul></p> Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/June%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/May%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html <p><strong>May MBA: Cups, balls, and lemons</strong></p><p>ES: field notes from one month of experience</p><p>1 Jun 2026 - 6 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Decision-making: two cups, one ball</li><li>No one cares about qualyti</li></ul></p> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/May%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/April%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html <p><strong>April MBA: Do you feel it?</strong></p><p>ES: field notes from one month of experience</p><p>1 May 2026 - 7 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Consulting: always the academics' fault</li><li>What if Google builds this tomorrow?</li><li>The Weyland-Yutani marketing error</li><li>Business proprioception</li></ul></p> Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/April%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/March%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html <p><strong>March MBA: Rock bands and gym owners</strong></p><p>ES: field notes from one month of experience</p><p>1 Apr 2026 - 10 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Why many (some?) businesses fail</li><li>The P-S awareness framework</li></ul></p> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/March%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/February%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html <p><strong>February MBA: Premium niche or mass market?</strong></p><p>ES: field notes from one month of experience</p><p>1 Mar 2026 - 5 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Sell to everyone or sell to a few</li><li>Always think about your ICP</li><li>Franchisee: business for those who don't know how to do business</li></ul></p> Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/February%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/January%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html <p><strong>January MBA: From spaghetti to funnel</strong></p><p>ES: field notes from one month of experience</p><p>1 Feb 2026 - 5 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Introduction</li><li>Don't change your price, contents, strategy, or anything really... until you have enough numbers</li><li>Exploration is cool... but it costs time</li><li>Know who's buying</li><li>Find your target within your clients</li><li>Fans vs customers</li></ul></p> Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/January%20Monthly%20Business%20Ahas.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/Flows%20of%20my%20information.html <p><strong>Flows of my information</strong></p><p>ES: personal workflow snapshot</p><p>31 Jan 2026 - 5 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Diagram</li><li>Breakdown</li></ul></p> Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/Flows%20of%20my%20information.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/Lifechanging%20blog%20posts.html <p><strong>Lifechanging blog posts</strong></p><p>ES: Personal anecdote, low confidence in generalizability</p><p>25 Jan 2026 - 4 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>[Candost Dagdeviren] Retiring from the idea of retirement</li><li>[tala's blog] your life is not a prequel</li><li>[RIBBONFARM] The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”</li><li>[Slate Star Codex] Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear?</li><li>Other links</li></ul></p> Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/Lifechanging%20blog%20posts.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/The%20corporate%20experience.html <p><strong>The corporate experience</strong></p><p>ES: Anecdotal and emotionally charged (intentionally non-neutral), based on a short experience.</p><p>26 Aug 2025 - 15 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Quick foreword</li><li>What are we arguing about today?</li><li>MY corporate experience</li><li>The REAL corporate experience</li><li>Me as Grandpa Simpson screaming “BATNA”</li><li>Suggested media</li></ul></p> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/The%20corporate%20experience.html https://costeve.com/blogPosts/I%20am%20not%20a%20mathematician.html <p><strong>I am not a mathematician (I am a math-worker)</strong></p><p>ES: I studied math for 5 years, did 1 year of research, and spoke with many senior academics.</p><p>12 Apr 2025 - 7 min read</p><p><strong>Headers of the post:</strong><ul><li>Why I studied mathematics</li><li>Why I don’t work in mathematics</li><li>Conclusions and Moral</li></ul></p> Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT https://costeve.com/blogPosts/I%20am%20not%20a%20mathematician.html