The Newsletters
Kathryn's flagship newsletter for founders and operators. Long-form essays on Substack. Plus a shorter weekday companion on LinkedIn when you want the quick read.
Essays, frameworks, and field notes for entrepreneurs building and leading companies. The work behind the wins, delivered straight to your inbox.
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Short, sharp, data-centered. One number, one chart, one takeaway you can actually use. Built for the LinkedIn scroll in 2–3 minutes.
Build the Damn Thing for the Sunday morning read. The Receipts for the daily scroll. They work better together.
The Receipts // In Pictures
Visual receipts pulled from the same data we cover in the newsletters. Sector-level charts, plain language, no spin.
Layoffs settled below the pre-2020 baseline. New business applications climbed to a new floor and stayed. Read together, the two series trace a forced-transition pipeline the unemployment rate does not show.
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The Beige Book pulls reports from all 12 Fed districts. The headlines collapse it into one number. This visual keeps the districts separate so you can see who is expanding, who is flat, and who is quietly contracting.
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In 2009, all-female founding teams received about 1.3% of US venture capital dollars. In 2026, after 17 years of pledges and named diversity initiatives, the figure is 2.1%. The conversation moved by orders of magnitude. The number did not.
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Twelve months of JOLTS data for Information, Finance and Insurance, and Professional and Business Services, plotted against each sector's own five-year baseline. The headline rate is calm. The white-collar receipts are not.
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White-collar America is not collapsing all at once. It is being quietly redistributed sector by sector. See where the floor has moved against each industry's five-year baseline.
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The predictable layoff floor in the knowledge economy has shifted. This visual maps the new baseline against the old one across the sectors most exposed to white-collar work.
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