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    <title>Business Model Canvas</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Business Model Canvas Summary: A nine-block visual language for describing, designing, and testing a business model, created by Alexander Osterwalder, built on the idea that words alone can’t align a team on what “business model” means, but a shared canvas can. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:25:49 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Library</title>
    <link>https://blackthornventuresllc.com/library</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Library Everything Paul has written and published lives here — leadership concepts, applied frameworks, and posts — organized by kind rather than by when it was written. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:25:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Voyage Planning</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Voyage Planning Summary: Leadership and expert supervision are needed most at the start and finish of a project — the naval analogy of harbor entry/exit being more dangerous than open ocean. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:23:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Literacy Gap</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Literacy Gap Summary: The gap between how accessible AI tools have become and how little the people using them, including technology teams, actually understand about what they’re doing. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:23:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Doctrine of Completed Staff Work</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The Doctrine of Completed Staff Work Summary: A staff-officer doctrine holding that a subordinate’s job is to fully solve a problem and deliver a finished, ready-to-sign recommendation to their chief, not to bring the chief unfinished analysis or ask what to do. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:23:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The 7 Budgets</title>
    <link>https://blackthornventuresllc.com/the-7-budgets</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The 7 Budgets Summary: Seven distinct types of finite capacity an organization has to deploy toward change, each with its own calendar, constraints, and point of discretion. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:23:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Team Yes</title>
    <link>https://blackthornventuresllc.com/team-yes</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Team Yes Summary: Partnering closely with Compliance, Legal, Risk Management, Security, Procurement, and Architecture around a shared goal of finding a way to approve AI use cases — safety designed in from the start, not audited after the fact. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:23:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Services</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Services Blackthorn Ventures provides advisory services to AI-focused startups, and public speaking on Leadership and Trusted AI at Scale. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:23:04 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Equally Powerful in the Semantic Layer</title>
    <link>https://blackthornventuresllc.com/semantic-layer-equality</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Equally Powerful in the Semantic Layer Summary: Paul’s observation, made in a conversation about this wiki’s own creation, that generative AI has flattened the syntactic barrier between semantic experts (who understand the problem) and syntactic experts (who translate it into working systems), so se... ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:23:04 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Safe Enablement</title>
    <link>https://blackthornventuresllc.com/safe-enablement</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Safe Enablement Summary: The practice formerly known as “Governance” — as generative and agentic AI expands opportunity faster than guardian functions can scale, guardrail tooling and earlier involvement become essential. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:23:04 GMT</pubDate>
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