We're navigating the early stages of an AI revolution that's rewriting the rules faster than we can learn them. The business landscape I thought I understood twelve months ago is unrecognizable now. The strategies that worked, the assumptions that held, the paths that seemed obvious, are all scrambled.
In this environment, my usual laser focus is a... See more
I'm sure some of you have recognized the four circles of Ikigai.
If we want to make an impact, we must focus on Ikigai's core. The world around us keeps shifting, which means there are changes in what we love, what we're good at, what customers need, and what they will pay for . None of this is problematic, as long as we keep our focus on purpose:... See more
If a team constantly feels overwhelmed, reactive, or trapped in meetings, it’s rarely because the people are underperforming. It’s because the team is attempting to operate with a context window that exceeds the team’s cognitive design.
The fix is not more process, or more meetings, or more dashboards. It’s a deliberate shrinking and shaping of the... See more
We've been here before. The symptoms repeat across time with eerie consistency. Politics feels paralyzed—parties fight but solve nothing. Leaders are reactive, never visionary. Jobs become transactional hell. Work becomes about survival, not meaning. The news is background static—constant crisis with no resolution. Everything feels heavy and gray... See more
It was a familiar sticking point. One they’d run into before. Same disagreement, different day. Competing priorities, different theories about how their business actually runs. It felt like there was a fracture in the room. Subtle but familiar.
There were heads shaking; mutterings to their neighbour; talking past each... See more
I have been fumbling on what to tell high school and college students about the future of computer science and software engineering. What to focus on? It’s obvious now. I can be so dense.
All I know is everything I needed to know to do everything I’ve ever done. I never once in my life thought about what I wanted to study. I just tried to make... See more