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If your business model prints cash, then by all means, have a 20% project policy or an AI fluency boondoggle-fest. But if you are under real pressure to build an AI-first or AI-efficient business, just stop. It's not that fluency projects aren't important, they simply aren't efficient, and they are contributing to layoffs.

I'm noticing a distressing trend, it feels like we are living in a novella where people are misunderstanding each other in ways that make the audience (me) both frustrated and sad.

There is a great thought experiment called the Ship of Theseus. It poses the question: if you replace every board on a ship, do you have a new ship or the same ship? This is a great way to reflect on the future of work.

Maybe this is an obvious learning, but it has been quite helpful for me to better understand my own communication style

My sense is that we can learn from these successful examples to improve organizational change agility and achieve transformational outcomes.

The last several months have been emotionally charged for me. I've been intentionally investing in more reading

One of the things I’m most excited about in this Ambiguity Age is the realization that we are forced to ask better questions.

The hard truth you need to hear The labor market is expecting significant productivity gains in the next decade.

there is still much within my control. I will focus on kindness and practice joy as a form of resistance.

ChatGPT 4o analyzes my psyche

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I started picking a word in 2017 (Generous, Impactful, Powerful, Joyful, Enduring, Expansive)

Every one of us has blind spots.

An important part of transformation is the ability to get the flywheel moving and like the name implies, the initial cycles are really hard.

The business of software is changing, luckily we have seen this movie before (sort of).

When we look at our world over the arc of time, we have to acknowledge that we have made a lot of progress.

Some of the innovations I’m most impressed with have not really been innovations at all – they have been deconstructions of prior innovation

My reading in Q2/Q3 came in waves with a few bigger breaks than usual.

One thing that set me back early in my career was being completely obtuse about how much people hate to admit they don't know.

I feel very fortunate to have a strong belief that everything is figureoutable.