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AI is not eliminating work so much as changing what organisations optimise for. Companies that once grew by adding layers of management, reporting and coordination are beginning to grow by…
Read more →The Manager in the Mirror: How to Know If You Are the Problem There is a particular kind of manager who works harder than anyone else on the team, arriving…
1. A Side Project That Ended a Conjecture In 2023, Andrew Krapivin was an undergraduate at Rutgers University reading a paper on his own time, for fun, that his professor…
by Andrew Baker 1. Opening: The Client Has Been Captured The fraud victim approving a transaction they believe is a refund is not making a mistake. They are not confused…
Read more →There is a version of this story that most technology vendors would prefer you heard. In that version, Switzerland evaluated Palantir’s data analytics platform, found it impressive, but ultimately declined…
Read more →How a 35-year-old IP licensor just walked into the most contested real estate in computing ARM spent 35 years becoming the most trusted neutral infrastructure company in computing, and then…
Read more →1. The question nobody can answer Four developers, three months, one very convincing product demo, and then the question that makes every engineering leader wince: why does the real platform…
Read more →Title inflation is not a strategy. It is a symptom. 1. The room I once sat in a meeting with six people, all of whom had Chief in their title.…
I have spent a long time thinking about what separates the leaders who build things that outlast them from the ones who leave wreckage where organisations used to be. There…
Why debouncing is one of the highest value patterns in responsive web development Most developers have built a search box that fires an API call on every keystroke and at some point felt the full weight of that decision. The network tab fills with hundreds of requests, the backend slows under the load, the UI […]
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