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Does a mining company need brand strategy?A tonne of copper, graded to spec, is identical to the tonne mined across the ...
06/20/2026

Does a mining company need brand strategy?

A tonne of copper, graded to spec, is identical to the tonne mined across the valley.

When the product can’t be differentiated, everything that creates value has to come from somewhere other than the "product."
(for a mining company I view the people as the "product" but that might be for another time..)

Two companies sell the same metal at the same spec. One gets financed at a better cost of capital, signs offtake at a premium, clears the permit through the community faster, and keeps its team through the down years. The other doesn’t.

⟡⟡ The difference isn’t in the ground. It’s what people believe about how you operate, decide, and behave when no one is watching the spot price.

Here’s what that could look like:

◦You can’t promise a return. You can show, consistently, how you think about risk.

◦You can’t turn incomplete ground into certainty. You can show the discipline you bring to ground you don’t yet understand.

◦You can’t guarantee a financing. You can show the way you allocate capital when the cycle turns.

◦You can’t front‑run a permit. You can show the way you engage the community, the impact that you are making and want to make, before you ever file.

◦You can’t control how the market reads you on day one. You can control how consistent the story is every quarter you’re on the board.

McKinsey puts a number on it. Miners who treat commercial strategy seriously: pricing, contract management, key accounts, and the worldview underneath all of it, add 3 to 8 points of EBIT margin. Not from a new orebody. 🡪From being legible to the people deciding whether to finance you and buy from you.

The cycle turns either way. Whether anyone backs your deposit over the identical one next door is the part you control. In a business where the asset is a commodity by definition, the company is the only thing that can be singular.

The metal is the commodity. The company never has to be.

06/19/2026

A follow on Instagram, a Substack subscriber, a TikTok follower, a LinkedIn follower, and an investor on an email list are five different things. The platforms count them as equal units, but they are not, and seeing the difference is an advantage.

Some follows are passive. Someone taps once and may never see the brand again. Some are active. Someone chooses to receive the next thing, opens it in an inbox, replies, forwards it, clicks from it, or brings it up on a call.

For technical sectors and capital markets, the better question is not "where can we collect the biggest audience." It is "where can we build the highest-intent one." Sometimes that is LinkedIn. Sometimes an email list. Sometimes YouTube, because the investor wants six minutes of real explanation. Sometimes the comment section, because that is where the objections the deck never answered show up.

The strongest strategy is not one big audience bucket. It is a map of attention quality.

People do not have short attention spans. They have short consideration spans. That distinction is good news for anyone ...
06/19/2026

People do not have short attention spans. They have short consideration spans. That distinction is good news for anyone with something real to show.

If the first three seconds earn the next ten, people will stay for a five-minute explanation of a painting, a day in the life of a rare-book cataloger, a factory process, a field visit, or a technical subject they never thought they cared about. The issue is not length. It is whether the viewer understands why to stay.

So the first moment is where the opportunity lives. Show the strange object. Ask the question anyone would wonder. Start with the hard part. State the effort. Open with the result, then walk backward.

The algorithm is not punishing depth. It rewards a strong invitation, and depth is exactly what people stay for once they have accepted it.

Most social advice is about getting someone to stop. The hook, the first three seconds, the thumbnail. Useful, and not t...
06/18/2026

Most social advice is about getting someone to stop. The hook, the first three seconds, the thumbnail. Useful, and not the part that lasts.

A part that lasts is tension: the distance between what people assume about your industry and how you choose to show up. Rachel Karten makes this case in a recent Substack post: "I think social media resources tend to over-index on the “best practices” that hook viewers, instead of the underlying tensions that make viewers stick around. Understand the way your brand or industry is perceived, and find ways to twist expectations."

Humor is one version of it, a company talking plainly about hard things is another, and the thread connecting them is a refusal of the template the category is expected to follow.

For the sectors we work in, the assumption is usually "buttoned-up and careful." The stakes are high and the communication is built to be careful. That care exists for good reason. These are regulated industries where precision matters and words carry weight. But careful and forgettable aren't the same thing.

Start with what your audience expects, and find the true, substantive thing you can show them that they're not expecting. The work isn't being clever just to be clever. The work is finding the specific expectation you can break by being more yourself, and letting the intelligence and conviction already inside the business, come through.

Vanta is paying up to $274,000 for a head of storytelling. Microsoft is hiring a senior director of narrative. USAA is o...
06/15/2026

Vanta is paying up to $274,000 for a head of storytelling. Microsoft is hiring a senior director of narrative. USAA is on its fourth staff storyteller in under a year. When Chime posted a single editorial role, more than 500 people applied, most of them former journalists.

The instinct is right. More than half of new articles online are now AI-generated, and the moment volume became free, it stopped being worth anything. What's scarce now is a company that sounds like it believes something.

Marketing runs on borrowed words. Every few years one arrives carrying something real, like community, authenticity, and now storytelling. Each names an outcome that can only come from a practice.

You can hire a storyteller. You cannot hire a story.

A story is the residue of a company that knows what it believes and has decided to say it in public, repeatedly, in a consistent voice, for long enough that people trust it.

That work looks like argument. It looks like a founder and a writer in a room disagreeing about what the company is for. It looks like cutting the four sentences that sound impressive because none of them are true. It is the slower work underneath every storyteller hire, and it is the only thing that makes any of the words mean something.

When a company does that work, the writer they hire arrives to something already coherent. Their role is to find the worldview already there and make it legible. The story becomes a thing they record, not one they invent. That is when storytelling stops being a job description and becomes a quality of the company itself.

Anthropic launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 9. On June 12, a US export-control order forced them to turn both models...
06/14/2026

Anthropic launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 9. On June 12, a US export-control order forced them to turn both models off for everyone.

That’s three days from “this is our newest, most powerful release” to “you can’t use this at all,” for reasons no customer controlled.

Practically, it’s an ownership question. Companies don’t get to own frontier models. You rent them. You do get to own your data, your workflows, your review layers, your prompts, your compliance logic, and the way your team thinks about where AI is allowed to touch the work. Those are the pieces that still belong to you when a model disappears for a week, or a month, or forever.

If there’s a useful exercise here, I’d say: map your stack and circle what would break if one specific model vanished tomorrow. Anything inside that circle either needs a fallback, or needs to move closer to things you actually control. The goal isn’t to avoid risk. It’s to make sure the hardest parts of what you do don’t belong to someone else’s API.

A public company used to be interpreted for the market by a thick middle layer. Proxy advisors scored your governance ag...
06/10/2026

A public company used to be interpreted for the market by a thick middle layer. Proxy advisors scored your governance against a checklist. Sell-side notes translated your results. The quarterly call gave management a room to add context live. An investor could follow you for years while reading almost nothing you published yourself.

That layer is thinning. Vanguard stripped the prescriptive language out of its voting policies. JPMorgan's asset management arm dropped proxy-advisor research and built an internal stewardship platform. ISS and Glass Lewis are moving from formulaic scoring to case-by-case judgment, and tighter expectations around Schedule 13G have made large investors more cautious about meeting with companies at all. The Harvard governance forum's season preview describes the result plainly: more weight on issuer-provided context, fewer of the old conversations.

Which leaves a structural fact most companies haven't absorbed. When the interpreters step back, whatever you publish is the context. The proxy statement, the deck, the website, the posts. That is what the people deciding what your company is worth are reading, on their own, with nothing between your words and their judgment.

This is why we treat published content as more than marketing. Marketing sits on top of a business; this layer is structural. It is doing the job the analysts and advisors used to do, it is how the market understands you at all, and it deserves to be built the way infrastructure gets built: deliberately, consistently, written to carry the argument with no one in the room to add the context for you.

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