Notes from operating agents in production.
Not a content programme. Occasional writing on what actually happens to AI agents and colonies after launch, and on the industry news that changes the calculation.
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If AI Takes the Entry-Level Work, Where Do Your Future Leaders Learn?
AI is absorbing the rote work juniors used to learn on. Here's how to automate it without destroying the training ground for your next leaders.
Read it →How to Keep Your Team Learning When the Rules Keep Changing
Teams that stop learning fall behind when markets, rules and tools change. Here's how to build a simple learning habit into a busy team.
Read it →How to Hire People Who Do More Than the Minimum
Some hires do exactly what's asked and nothing more. Here's how to spot people who do the unexpected, and how to build a team where that's normal.
Read it →Hire Sales Engineers to Find Problems, Not Run Demos
Treating sales engineers as demo machines wastes them. Here's how to hire, brief and measure sales engineers who uncover the problems that close deals.
Read it →Why the Best Hires Come Through Relationships, Not Job Boards
The strongest hires and roles usually come through people who already know each other. Here's how to build a hiring network before you need it.
Read it →Burned by a Fractional Leader? How to Hire the Next One Right
A bad fractional hire makes companies swear off the model. Here's how to tell experienced fractional leaders apart and set the engagement up to work.
Read it →Co-Founder Lanes: How to Divide Roles So You Stop Stepping on Each Other
Co-founders without clear lanes duplicate work and stall decisions. Here's how to split roles, decision rights and ownership so each founder can move fast.
Read it →Leadership Decided. Why Doesn't the Rest of the Team Know?
Leaders make decisions and assume they've spread. Usually they haven't. Here's how to cascade decisions so the whole organization acts on them.
Read it →When Fast Operators Hit Stakeholder-Alignment Culture
Fast movers stall when every decision needs stakeholder alignment first. Here's how to keep speed and alignment without burning out your best operators.
Read it →Change Fatigue: Why Constant Resets Mean You Never Learn What Worked
Leadership turnover and constant strategy changes leave teams on a shaky foundation. Here's how to slow the resets and learn what actually works.
Read it →Why Bigger Companies Struggle to Absorb Outside Input and Pivot
The larger the company, the harder it is to take in new information and change course. Here's how leaders can keep a growing company able to adapt.
Read it →Is There a Claudeforce for HubSpot?
Claudeforce gives Salesforce sellers 37 prebuilt AI skills inside Claude. HubSpot doesn't get it. Here's what Claudeforce actually is, what's Salesforce-locked, and how to build the equivalent on HubSpot.
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