Anchoring Our Mental Model
How we build individual and shared understanding of software, and what changes when AI agents write the code. I remember being on a high floor down…
Making Decisions
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It Is Always the Time for Vision
Why vision matters now. Recently someone said to me, “Now is not the time for vision.” This statement gets the relationship between uncertainty and vision backwards.…
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Everyone Hit Their Numbers. The System Didn’t Move.
The night before the on-site, six of us went to dinner. Forty people were flying in the next morning to spend two days working on one…
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Move Fast and Break Accountability
The further you are from the outcomes of a decision, the easier it is to make a bad call. It’s a natural consequence of large systems…
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Amazon’s Writing Culture Is Eating Itself
Faster document production is putting us into a decision quality doom spiral. Let’s talk about how two trends are killing us cognitively and what to do…