Long-form notes on systems, places, books, and the questions worth sitting with. Written by a working operator — not a writer pretending to know.
Read the index ↓Subscribe to The DispatchEvery vendor is selling autonomous planning. Gartner predicts machines will resolve 60% of disruptions by 2031 — and that 40% of agentic projects will be cancelled by 2027. Both are true. Here's how to hold them in the same head.
The stretch of India's west coast between Goa and Kerala by road, not itinerary. Second towns, fishing villages, the monsoon logic of the place, and the specific pleasure of going slowly through a coast that rewards it.
The book that explains supply chain risk better than any supply chain book. Also the book most frequently used to justify inaction dressed up as optionality.
Cal Newport's thesis is correct. It's also only available to people who already won. For the rest of us, the calendar is not ours to close.
When a vendor says their AI improved accuracy by 30%, three follow-up questions usually dissolve the claim: at what aggregation level, at what lag, and measured how?
From Samarkand to Kashgar, ancient connectivity is returning to Central Asia. The interesting question is who is writing the narrative of that return.
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Key insights, infographics, and data charts. Perfect for a 3-minute coffee break. Every article distilled to its essence.
In-depth analysis with original research, expert interviews, historical context, and comprehensive citations. For serious readers.
Zuloma is a publication for thoughtful readers — the kind who would rather read for an hour than scroll for ten minutes. The work spans four lanes that, on a closer look, are the same lane: systems, places, books, and the questions of the moment.
It is written from inside the work — fourteen years of supply-chain transformations, a reading habit that predates either career, and a passport with too many stamps. Nothing here is in a hurry. Every piece is reported, read into, and rewritten until it earns its length.
No listicles. No "top ten" anything. No words that exist only to fill sentences. If you've ever closed a tab feeling slightly worse for having opened it, Zuloma is meant to be the other thing.
A single, considered email. One essay, one idea, one book worth your attention. No tracking, no clickbait, no “10 best” anything.