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.
Looking for something else? My academic publications and my Concentric AI writing live elsewhere.
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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.
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Could a Machine Have Had Darwin’s Idea?
In November 2020 I started a thread on X. I have barely used the platform these past couple of years, and I only came back to this thread recently, by accident, when some of my own old posts surfaced in…
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Can Frontier AI Outdo MBAs?
Three of the top business schools in the country just tested frontier AI on the analytical work their MBAs are trained to do, and the models scored in the high eighties. If you run a company, that number is coming…
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Sensing Is More Than Measurement
The Financial Times reported this week on an internal Amazon presentation held July 28. Engineers walked staff through a set of AI cost overruns. The largest used Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet to match author details against product listings on Amazon’s retail…
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Why Ford Rehired
Ford has added more than 350 experienced engineers over the past three years after its automated quality systems failed to deliver the results the company expected. Inside Ford they are called gray beards. Some are former Ford employees. Others came…
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Early Signs of Rehiring
A short update to an earlier post on the AI jobs debate. A few weeks ago I argued that the AI jobs debate was asking the wrong question. My point was that the layoffs of the past year were mostly…
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Safest Car on the Road, Yet Parks in the Fire Lane
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal today about my hometown of Austin, and it made me laugh before it made me think. Since Waymo’s robotaxis arrived here in 2024, they have apparently collected $9,325 in parking tickets.…