Personal Thoughts, Tech and More
(on why your best people are hiding their AI use) The primary obstacle to AI adoption isn’t technology or culture, but rather a misalignment in incentives. Currently your top performers are using AI to compress an 8-hour workday into 4 (and often significantly fewer hours) but they would not tell you. They know that in […]
True progress requires both strategy and planning working in an iterative cycle. Strategy acts as the “compass” to ensure you are doing the right things by choosing the right mountain to climb. Planning acts as the “map” to ensure you are doing things right by organizing resources and schedules to reach the summit.
I spent a lot of my free time in 2025 learning about management through books, treating it as a skill not a title. The books that I read are on leadership, motivation, feedback and communication. The biggest surprise for me was learning that good managers are not born leaders, they are built through practice, mistakes […]
The best investment you can make if you have just been promoted to manager is picking up “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhuo. That book scarily highlights a mistake I went through (forcing myself to continue individual contributor work long past the point of sustainability). For awhile, as with many new managers, I […]