The trap of being useful
You don’t stop being the bottleneck. You just move it
“Use AI” is not a strategy
There are two finance books on my desk. I bought them six weeks ago. Neither one is open. We had to assess whether to replace one of our finance tools with an AI-native version. To judge that, I had to understand what we were replacing. That's where
The company we documented is not the company we run
The model told me how our billing system worked. The system it described wasn't fully live yet.
The five-second gut check
Everyone's automating the work. Nobody's designing the five seconds where a human actually decides.
Letting go is how you keep up
When execution stops being the job, holding on makes you slower.