Malthus was wrong. He predicted that population growth would outpace food production, leading to inevitable societal collapse. Technology proved him spectacularly wrong — agricultural productivity …
The Quiet Surrender
Putt's Law states that technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. Its corollary is unsettling: …
The Age of the Renaissance Professional
For all of my career, depth has been the signal. The person who had gone deepest in their domain — who had spent years becoming genuinely expert — was the most valuable person in the room. Promotions, …
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The Two-Word Farewell
A friend described a leaving drinks conversation. Near the end of the evening, the person departing — finally free to speak — offered two words to describe the company they were leaving …
Architecture Debt Doesn’t Announce Itself
You shipped a CRM on time, a system that records memberships. Each contract starts on a date and ends on a date. Twelve months, done. It works. The team moves on. That holds until August, when your …
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The Orchestrator’s Era: Why Your Feature Roadmap is Obsolete in an Agentic World
Most product roadmaps I see today look almost identical to ones from five years ago. A prioritised backlog, ranked features, a launch plan, a success metric. The framework is solid. The problem is the …