I’ve been saying “polymorphic cultures” for a year and I’ve never actually written down what I mean by it. The term has shown up in podcast interviews, LinkedIn…
One week ago I announced Grazier Ventures and Aqen.ai. Since then I’ve been asked a version of the same question about a dozen times: how are you actually going…
Every few months someone posts a screenshot of a one-person company doing a million dollars a year. The replies split clean in half. One side calls it the…
Or: why knowing every new AI tool is the wrong flex I was at Lowe’s last weekend staring at the oscillating multi-tool wall. Fourteen variants. Corded, cordless, brushless,…
Silicon Valley has a new competitive sport, and it’s exactly the mistake you think it is. The New York Times reported last week that engineers at Meta, OpenAI,…
Every engineering leader I know is running at least one AI meeting recorder. Fathom, Otter, Fireflies, Granola — they show up in your Zoom call, they transcribe everything,…
Every company I’ve talked to in the last two quarters is asking the same question about AI: what’s the ROI? The instinct is to measure AI value in cost…
Jack Dorsey announced this week that Block is cutting roughly 3,500 people — about 40% of its workforce. The stock has been sliding for years. The headlines are…
In 2015, I stood in front of a room full of engineers at Code Driven NYC and laid out a formula for how individual contributors could take charge…
In my last post, Awe in an AI World, I wrote about the reclaimed time that AI is creating and the question that keeps me up at night in…