AI is the newest test of a question every organization already faces: how work actually changes under pressure.
I work one-on-one with the executive steering their organization through what AI is doing to how the work gets done.
I design and run the conversations where a leader's hardest decisions actually get made.
I help an organization change how it actually works, even when the pressure to move fast makes shortcuts tempting.
A biweekly conversation about leadership, change, and what AI is doing to both. I create and host it, with co-host Andy Siegmund.
More about the show →Field notes from the actual work — what holds up, and what breaks, when a large organization takes on AI.
A new model made every other agent Ed runs better too, and the credit belonged to the setup around them, not the model itself. This essay asks how much of the coaching craft actually transfers to agents, and where improvement still has to be built by hand.
Read the field note →None of the code here gets written by hand anymore: agents write every line, and the job left is pointing the work and judging what comes back. Comprehension debt is the gap between what a system actually is and what anyone can still account for, a debt that can be managed but never fully paid down.
Read the field note →Agents never sleep, so work in progress no longer has the natural ceiling that human labor used to put on it. This essay borrows the oldest idea in kanban, limiting work in progress, and applies it to the one constraint that never got faster: human attention.
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