Leadership
Institutional knowledge, cognitive load, organizational design, and the management patterns that make teams effective. Sometimes the AI is involved. Sometimes it's just people.
7 posts
- 6 min read
The Discovery Tax
Discovery phases feel expensive. Skipping them is more expensive. Every 'just build it' directive is a bet that you understand the problem completely before starting. That bet almost never pays.
- 6 min read
I Have a Team Now — It Just Happens to Be AI
The progression from 'AI helps me write emails' to 'I manage a department of specialized agents across six domains' happened in eight months. The output scaled. The cognitive load dropped. That combination is new.
- 6 min read
I Manage AI Agents the Way I Manage Teams
The management principles that make human teams effective — separation of concerns, clear guidelines, professional focus, knowing when to restructure — apply directly to AI agent management. This isn't a metaphor. It's an operational framework.
- 7 min read
Governance Is Architecture
Most people treat AI governance as a compliance problem — policy documents, review committees, usage guidelines applied after the system is built. That's backwards. Governance is an architectural decision, and it needs to be designed in, not bolted on.
- 5 min read
AI Adoption: The 0.04% Don't Know They're the 0.04%
The people actually building with AI are too busy building to post about it. If the LinkedIn AI feed makes you feel behind, you're measuring against the wrong cohort.
- 8 min read
The AI Perimeter: Where Automation Should End and Judgment Should Begin
AI is the most powerful tool most of us have ever had. That makes knowing when not to use it the actual skill.
- 5 min read
What Is Pass@1?
Pass@1 is a development methodology where governance documents are thorough enough that AI generates correct implementations on the first attempt. Speed is a byproduct. Governance is the product.