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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
Alignment Is Eating Itself. What Comes After the Deck.
Alignment mechanics were scaffolding for moving information through slow orgs. Agents move it instantly. What's left is the conviction the scaffolding hid.
25 Apr13 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
Plan Your Skip Move, Not Your Next Move
In stable markets, plan your next job. In exponential markets, plan the one after. Why title cuts today are the highest-return career move of the decade.
24 Apr14 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
Product Shipping Is Up 10x. Design Hiring Hasn't Moved.
Teams shipping 10x more product aren't hiring more designers. Design still matters; most orgs just hire for the wrong part of it.
23 Apr12 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
A 2018 Google PM Is Worth Less Than a Two-Year AI-Native Builder
The hiring signal has inverted. Prestige credentials from the big-tech era correlate weakly with AI fluency. Screen for recency, not brand.
22 Apr13 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
The Skills That Got You Promoted Are the Ones Making You Obsolete
Success in the old operating model is a reinvention tax. The senior leaders who mastered roadmap theatre and stakeholder alignment struggle most to adapt.
21 Apr13 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
30,000 Out. 8,000 In. The Great PM Cull Is Underway.
The 2024–2026 layoff cycle isn't a ZERP correction. It's a talent swap at a 3.75:1 ratio, with an entirely different skill filter. Most discourse misses it.
20 Apr10 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
AI Is a Five-Layer Cake. Pick the Slice That Keeps Paying.
Energy, chips, systems, models, applications. Every layer matters. Only one pays compounding returns. A framework for picking yours.
19 Apr11 min read
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Industry & MarketsDeep dive
Agents Are the Heaviest SaaS Users You'll Ever Onboard
Every useful agent becomes a power user of the SaaS underneath it. Install base explodes, API calls multiply, workflow gets more essential, not less.
18 Apr10 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
I Try to Jailbreak Every AI Chat I Use. Most of Them Let Me.
Six production chat surfaces, a habit of breaking every AI chat in the wild, and the defence-in-depth stack that keeps your prompts contained.
15 Apr16 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
You'll Get the AI Org Design Wrong Twice
Most enterprise AI teams centralise first, then decentralise. Both fail. Here's the hub-and-spoke structure that actually works.
14 Apr6 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
Every Team Has a Barrel Problem. AI Just Exposed It.
Keith Rabois' barrels vs. ammunition framework reframes what AI changes about teams. More ammunition without more barrels solves the wrong problem.
14 Apr8 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
Enterprise AI Adoption Fails at the Harness, Not the Model
90%+ enterprise AI tool access, most people stuck in chat. The rollout bottleneck isn't the model. It's the harness. Here's the product fix.
13 Apr6 min read
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