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TBM 427: The Bottleneck Strike Again!
My goodness. If I see another slide with a 2005-era SDLC diagram sprinkled with little AI logos and a bunch of words suggesting “the bottleneck has moved” or that this has all been figured out, when in reality every week there’s something n...
TBM 426: The Trouble With Mirrors
There’s a difference between mirrors and mirroring. Over the years I’ve come to see that difference, and I wanted to share how my thinking has shifted.
Earlier in my career, I was smitten by the idea that if teams could “just” visualize ho...
TBM 425: AI and Agency
So you want your team to figure out how to use AI for the benefit of your company? Then stop stripping them of the agency to do it.
AI is posing all of us hard questions about agency, worth, and identity. But the far bigger problem is how...
TBM 424: Why We Help (And How To Stay Helpful)
A quick ask: I’m doing positioning research for the product I manage, and I have a goal of running 50 short sessions over the next couple weeks. It’s 30 minutes. I’ll share a short presentation/demo, then spend the rest of the time on feedb...
AI Won’t Save the Kingdoms We Built
This post is about the people who built the fiefdoms now looking to AI to save them from the fiefdoms, and why that will only work if we are honest about what those fiefdoms were built to avoid in the first place.
Unfiltered Saturday morni...
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