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 …
The Peter Principle: The Structural Problem Your Performance Review Won’t Solve
Laurence Peter proposed his principle in 1969 as satire. Fifty-six years later, most organisations are still running on the exact system he was mocking. The Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy, …
What I Got Wrong (And Still Get Wrong)
The most useful version of this post is the honest one. Here is what went wrong, roughly in the order it happened. I Built Structure Before I Had Habits The first time I tried something like this I …
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