efficiency Automation Is a Professional Obligation, Not an Optimization Automation isn't an optimization—it’s a professional standard. Manual processes become ingrained, creating bottlenecks & dependencies; automating is the baseline, not an extra step.
agile The Three Eras of Agile: Constraint, Synergy, Intent Agile practices have moved through three eras defined by their binding constraint. Knowing which era your team is in tells you which practices fit.
agile The Agile Manifesto Was Written for a World Without AI The Manifesto's trade-offs answered a scarcity of human execution capacity. AI removes the scarcity. The intent survives; the formulation needs to change.
AI Economics Not Every Ticket Needs the $250,000 Engineer You match engineer seniority to the work. Model tiers deserve the same discipline: benchmark, cost, and task duration, priced per solved task with real measured cache rates. The teams skipping that math are paying staff-engineer rates for intern work.
agile The P.O.S.T. AI World: Resetting the Agile Manifesto for the Age of Agents The Agile Manifesto's "over" was an admission of scarcity: teams could not afford both sides. As AI lifts the execution constraint, the word worth testing is "and."
AI The Skill Leveling Effect: What Happens When AI Helps Everyone Equally AI's productivity gains skew heavily toward junior and mid-level workers. The floor rises, the distribution tightens, and judgment becomes the scarce asset.
agentic-AI The Woodshop-to-Factory Transition: Why Stage 3 Is Not a Small Step Moving from AI-assisted tools to autonomous agents replaces the operating environment, the way the factory replaced the woodshop. The infrastructure comes first.
agentic-AI Stacking Errors: The Compounding Math Behind AI Governance A 10-step agent pipeline at 95% per-step accuracy completes correctly about 60% of the time. Errors multiply, and quality gates are how reliability comes back.
AI-adoption Your First AI Win Should Take 30 Minutes The fastest way to find out whether AI helps you is a 30-minute experiment on the task you hate most. A list, a test, and a reason to share the result.
AI Lies, Lies, and Statistics: The Five Ways AI Gets Things Wrong Hallucination is one of five ways AI output misleads. Commission, omission, perspective, bias, and frame of reference each require a different defense.
AI The 2x2 AI Impact Matrix: What to Do Based on Where You Are Two questions decide what to do about AI for any role: how much time does AI actually compress, and is demand or execution the constraint? The four combinations produce four different prescriptions, and applying the wrong one is expensive.
AI Two Ways AI Changes Your Job: Demand-Limited vs. Collapsable Tasks Jobs are bundles of tasks, and AI hits the bundle unevenly. Demand-limited tasks call for role evolution and collapsable tasks call for role redefinition. Confusing the two is a reliable path to the wrong investment.
culture Corporate Currency: The Hidden Social Economy of Organizations Every organization runs an unwritten social economy where attention is priced and trust is the reserve asset. Corporate Currency is the operator's manual: three ways to earn, two ways to spend, and one mistake that costs more than all the rest.
Economic Forecasting Seventy Years of Technology Hype: What Failed Predictions Tell Us About the AI Economic Boom Tech hype cycles repeat: past predictions of a "paperless office" or "end of work" fell flat, and today's AI forecasts likely face similar challenges. Learn what history can teach us about tempering expectations for the AI economic boom.
AI Economics The Meter Picks the Winners Model selection, problem selection, and the economics underneath them are going to pick the winners and losers of the agentic era. The meter is just the scorekeeper.
agentic-AI The 8-Stage AI Trust Evolution: A Map for the Journey AI adoption is a journey through eight discrete stages of trust, from practitioner to strategist. Each transition demands different infrastructure, and the hardest one, Stage 2 to Stage 3, requires building the factory before running the agents.
AI Why Now: The Capability-Cost Inflection Point Hype is a poor discriminator: every real technological revolution arrived with a bubble attached. What separates AI from Web3 and the metaverse is the capability and cost evidence, and that evidence is already on the books.
AI-adoption The AI Adoption Maturity Ladder: Which Rung Are You On? Most organizations sit on rung two of the AI adoption ladder and believe they are on rung three. The gap matters because the interventions that work at each rung differ, and the most reliable diagnostic is what happens when AI fails.
AI Labor Compression: The Right Economic Frame for AI Replacement is the wrong frame for AI and the workforce. Labor compression, the reduction of hours required per role, turns a binary fear into the strategic question that matters: what happens to the freed capacity?
AI Not That GPT: AI as a Generally Productive Technology Economists were using the acronym GPT decades before OpenAI. Reading AI as a general purpose technology, in the lineage of electricity and the internet, changes the questions leaders should ask and the time they have to ask them.
Engineering Craft Why Projects Fail Project failure rates are dismal – less than 50% succeed! Let's explore the root causes beyond just "software people need to change" and work towards a better standard.
Engineering Craft VSIX Installer: Fixing the PkgDefProjectOutputGroup Error Struggling with a "PkgdefProjectOutputGroup" error in your VSIX installer? A sneaky URL-encoding issue in your `.csproj` file might be the culprit – check those semicolons!
Engineering Craft Tools of the Trade From keyboards to motion trackers, I've geeked out over a lot of tech lately! Join me as I share the gadgets that sparked serious excitement and boosted my productivity.
Engineering Craft SSRS Ad-Hoc Reporting: Dynamic RDLC with LINQ to XML Dynamically generate SSRS reports with this approach! Learn how to use LINQ to XML and RDLC to create flexible, application-integrated reports beyond standard SSRS scenarios.
Engineering Craft Starting Out in Ruby Diving into Ruby for my apprenticeship! Exploring mind-bending features like class-scoped methods and overridden constructors has been quite the learning experience.
