Articles
On strategy, architecture, and the decisions that compound over time.
Asking the Right Questions Isn't Enough
You can't schedule your way to trust. Real listening means earning the room before you try to change it.
Read more →Why I Keep Handing People a 1952 Novel
The AI job displacement debate focuses on economics. Vonnegut asked the harder question: what happens to human dignity when work disappears? We still don't have a good answer.
Read more →The Most Expensive Trip Across Town
The most expensive resource in your organization isn't being wasted in meetings — it's leaking away one interruption at a time.
Read more →The Management Layer Nobody Trained For
We spend a lot of energy giving AI enough context to do good work. The human reviewing the output needs context too.
Read more →Exploration Used to Be Expensive
AI makes it practical to explore multiple directions before committing — and that changes how you make decisions.
Read more →Teams Matter More, Not Less
AI amplifies output, not perspective. You can accelerate what you produce, but you can't multiply how you see. That's what other people are for.
Read more →Too Many Priorities Is No Priorities
When everything becomes possible, discernment becomes the differentiator.
Read more →The Amplification Paradox: Why AI Rewards the Fundamentals
AI amplifies what's already there. Experienced practitioners use it to move faster; people still building depth can end up producing more output without the judgment to evaluate it. Invest in people development alongside tool adoption — the fundamentals matter more now, not less.
Read more →Custom Software is Back
AI is disrupting the economics of custom software. Organizations stuck with a Rube Goldberg machine of SaaS integrations and spreadsheet duct tape now have an alternative: software actually built for how they work.
Read more →When AI Writes the Code, Engineers Become Architects
AI makes code generation easy. The harder work — knowing what to build, evaluating whether it fits, designing systems that last — still requires human judgment. Engineers don't disappear; they become architects.
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