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Leadership & Management May 23, 2026

Why Buying AI Tools And Training Employees Is Not AI Adoption

Many companies will buy AI tools, train employees, and still fail to build AI capability. The problem is not weak technology. It is a shallow adoption model that treats AI like another software rollout instead of a change in how judgment, delegation, experimentation, and infrastructure move through the organisation. This article explains why training alone stops too early, why AI moves people from execution toward steering, why apprenticeship and management judgment matter, and which operating-model question executives should ask before adoption becomes theatre.

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Stop Asking If SaaS Dies. Ask Which.
Technical Decisions May 1, 2026

Stop Asking If SaaS Dies. Ask Which.

An M&A expert bet that companies would stop buying SaaS because AI made building in-house cheap enough. That theory does not survive contact with organisational debt. AI made parts of software cheaper, but the expensive part was never only the code — it was the structure that dictates processes, the processes that dictate tooling, and the ownership questions that make every adoption curve slower than the demo suggests. The useful question is not whether SaaS survives AI. It is which SaaS survives AI.

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I Asked for 2 Sick Days — My Doctor Gave Me 18 Months
Mental Health Apr 20, 2026

I Asked for 2 Sick Days — My Doctor Gave Me 18 Months

Depression doesn't pause your life — it just destroys the part of your brain that's supposed to handle it. This is a personal account of multiple depressive episodes over fifteen years: how to accept you're sick, strip your life down to what you can handle, rebuild the decision muscle one choice at a time, and eventually let someone in. Not advice from a therapist — lessons from doing it wrong and doing it right.

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Project Management Isn't Dying — It's Shrinking Into The Actual Work
Leadership & Management Apr 17, 2026

Project Management Isn't Dying — It's Shrinking Into The Actual Work

The apparatus around software delivery — tickets, sprints, standups, boards — is dissolving because the unit of execution has shrunk past the management overhead built around it. What remains is context management: curating what agents assume, qualifying requests before code gets written, and reviewing output after. The PM skills that matter — sense-making, translation, stakeholder alignment — don't vanish; they relocate into the engineer's orbit. This piece maps that relocation from the perspective of someone who has been an engineer, a project manager, and is now shipping as a one-person agency without a single ticket.

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Your Knowledge System Isn't Finished Until It Ships
Shipping with AI Apr 15, 2026

Your Knowledge System Isn't Finished Until It Ships

Andrej Karpathy just published how he uses an LLM to manage his personal knowledge base. Most readers will build the wrong thing — a clean wiki that produces nothing. The step nobody's writing about is wiring your second brain into an agent that produces on your behalf, while you stay on the parts a system can't do for you. Output is delegable. Outcome is not. That's the line.

AI WritingKnowledge ManagementAgentsWorkflowCraft
Why Your AI-Written Strategy Isn't a Strategy (And Your Team Already Knows)
Leadership & Management Apr 14, 2026

Why Your AI-Written Strategy Isn't a Strategy (And Your Team Already Knows)

Most SMEs are too slow with AI. But there is one place the aggressive approach destroys value instead of creating it: when leadership stops using AI as a tool and starts using it as a leader. An LLM is built to produce the most probable answer, not the best one — sycophantically agreeable, context-free, and architecturally incapable of the outlier conviction calls strategy is made of. This piece maps where that line sits, how the damage compounds quietly across a team's trust, and the single question to ask before every important prompt: am I asking for output, or for outcome?

AI StrategySME LeadershipDecision-MakingSycophancyEngineering Leadership
Software Development Is Becoming a Management Discipline. The Old Managers Aren't Invited.
Leadership & Management Apr 13, 2026

Software Development Is Becoming a Management Discipline. The Old Managers Aren't Invited.

Agentic coding doesn't just speed up engineers. It collapses three roles — designer, tech lead, project manager — onto a single operator running multiple projects in parallel. The bottleneck isn't agent throughput; it's the ceiling on sustainable human decisions per day. This piece maps what's actually breaking, who walks away from it, and the practices — Knowledge as Code, judgment-first juniors, decision-capacity org design — that hold up under the new load.

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