Future Of Work

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AI Multiplied Your Engineers. Your PMs Are Drowning.

AI coding tools tripled engineering output overnight. PM and design headcount stayed flat. The ratio broke, and most orgs haven't noticed yet.

8 Apr9 min read

AI Productivity Doesn't Free Time. It Monetises Ambition.

AI productivity does not hand ambitious builders spare time. It increases the number of bets, side projects, and decisions they can pursue each week.

2 Apr9 min read

Capable Is the New Unacceptable: Zapier's AI Fluency Rubric

Zapier's V2 AI Fluency Rubric reveals a calibration problem. Most companies' target for AI adoption maps to Zapier's baseline, one step above their minimum.

1 Apr6 min read