That is how Dan Shipper put it on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast last week. Shipper runs Every, a media and software company that has been operating as a live experiment in AI-native work for the past two …
The Signal Problem
Your Slack didn't used to feel like this. There was a time when a message arriving in a channel meant something had happened that someone thought you should know. Now it means Billy from sales has had …
The Meeting That Can’t Be Automated
I spent six weeks building a presentation about AI. I talk about summarising online classes, creating tasks in real time for educators, algorithms that tell a consultant whether a student is likely to …
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Get In the Chariot
The highest-paid sportsman in the history of human civilisation was a Roman charioteer named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. He competed in 4,257 races, won 1,462 of them, and retired with 35,863,120 …
Gall’s Law: Why Your Transformation Programme Will Fail
John Gall was a paediatrician. Not an obvious source of management wisdom. But in 1975 he wrote something about complex systems that should be required reading for every executive who has ever …
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Brooks’ Law: Why Hiring Won’t Fix Your Delivery Problem
In 1975, Fred Brooks published The Mythical Man-Month. Fifty years later, it remains the most consistently ignored book in software engineering. Brooks’ Law: “Adding manpower to a late …
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