Toothpaste Back in Tubes: On opportunity cost, art, and what stays human
The AI debate keeps leaving out the part that matters most: what gets made with the time it gives back. On opportunity cost, art, and what stays human.
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Leadership and Culture
Leadership and Culture
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The Games Your Organization is Actually Playing →
Most organizational dysfunction comes from rational people responding to badly designed games. Before you blame the players, check the rules.
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Leadership and Culture
Leadership and Culture
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The Case for Being Wrong Faster →
Most organizations punish people for changing their minds. The ones that win are the ones that learn fastest.
Technology and Future
Technology and Future
When Seeing Is No Longer Believing →
We spent years worrying about deepfakes. Then we watched authentic video get contradicted by official statements, with media treating both as valid perspectives.
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Technology and Future
Technology and Future
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The Bubble That Knows It's a Bubble →
Railway Mania, dot-com, AI. Technology bubbles follow a pattern older than any of them. What's different this time is that everyone knows the script.
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Product and Strategy
Product and Strategy
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Sensing and Sensemaking: The Hidden Skills of Product Management →
The best product managers develop two underappreciated capabilities that turn ambiguous signals into strategic clarity: sensing what others miss and making sense of what it means.
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Thinking and Learning
Thinking and Learning
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Writing is still thinking →
A blank page doesn't lie about what you actually know. In a world of AI shortcuts, writing is still the best way to really think.
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Technology and Future
Technology and Future
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Playing Favorites - How AI Shapes Our Knowledge Without Us Noticing →
We're building a world where AI increasingly decides what information we see. These systems have a built-in bias toward the average, and it's narrowing what we collectively know.
Books and Ideas
Books and Ideas
Truth in a Post-Truth World, Revisiting Frankfurt's On Bullshit →
Revisiting Harry G. Frankfurt's 'On Bullshit' in a world where attention matters more than accuracy, and bullshit is louder than both.
Product and Strategy
Product and Strategy
Mental Models →
A 2013 note on mental models and the ways we borrow, misuse, and forget them when designing for people.