Writing
Essays on how companies hold together as they fill with abundant intelligence. Written for CEOs, enterprise leaders and executives navigating the organizational impact of AI and agentic AI.
AI and agentic systems are changing organizational design, operating models and the way companies work. The problem isn’t simply redesigning the organization for AI. It’s keeping the redesigned organization coherent as AI accelerates complexity.
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Building Coherence Is About Structure, Not Supervision.
Gartner expects that by 2028, companies using multi-agent AI across most of their customer-facing work will pull ahead of everyone else, and that ninety percent of B2B buying will run through AI agents, moving more than fifteen trillion dollars (Gartner,…
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What the Watermark Doesn’t Tell You
Anthropic recently started stamping an invisible watermark into everything Claude writes. The watermark is a modest piece of engineering. It was released to satisfy the European Union’s AI Act, which now asks AI providers to mark machine-generated text. Within a…
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A Company Doesn’t Have One Brain
I wrote recently about how studying the brain led me to the question at the center of my book. The short version: once you can trust individual agents, you stop deploying one and start deploying many, and a new question…
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I studied the Brain to Build AI. The Agentic Era Sent Me Back to It.
I have spent my whole career trying to understand intelligence. I studied neuroscience because I was interested in AI and figured learning how the brain works first was a good way to begin. Intelligence first before “artificial” intelligence. That training…
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The Machinery Under Manners
Reid Hoffman posted this week about how to make an introduction. His rule is the double opt-in. Before connecting two people, you check with both of them first. You ask each whether they want the intro, and you make it…
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Coding Got Easy, But What Kind?
A programmer named Senko Rašić published an angry post this week. He is angry at a slogan going around: “code was never the hard part.” He calls it an insult to programmers. The post hit Hacker News and Lobsters and…
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Uninformed Expectations, Five Years Later
I named the roadblock to AI ROI back in 2021. It still exists but at a different place.