Field notes on supply chains & building things from scratch
Procurement & Negotiation — Est. 2013
I built a supply chain from zero to $10M+, and I write down what actually worked.
Melbourne-based supply chain and procurement leader — grown a business from $0 to $10.4M, negotiated contracts across three countries, and co-founded a charity for vision-impaired kids in Pakistan. Most of what's here started as handwritten entries in a journal I've kept for over a decade. This is where I write about what actually works — in procurement, in negotiation, and in how AI is starting to change both.
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Walmart's AI Is Already Negotiating. My Local Council Is Still Deciding Who to Trust.
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I called Pakathon self-interest dressed up as community building. Rereading a colleague's old post about why she joined, I don't think that's true anymore — and I think I know why I got it wrong.