productivity
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Loop Engineering: Managing the Agents That Manage the Work
Most people are still treating AI agents like better chat windows. Ask a question. Get an answer. Fix the answer. Ask again. That works when the job is small. It breaks the moment the work starts looking like real software work: planning, implementation, review, failed tests, pull request comments, merge decisions, cleanup, and the awkward…
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How to Make AI Watch Your Most Important Business Numbers
Most businesses don’t have a data problem. They have an attention problem. The numbers are already somewhere — Shopify, Triple Whale, Looker, a spreadsheet somebody updates on Fridays, a finance model only one person fully understands. The issue is not access. It’s whether anyone is still looking at the right number often enough to matter.…
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From BYOD to BYOA: The New Workplace Shift Nobody’s Naming Yet
Work has been offloading its infrastructure onto workers for years. First the commute. Then the device. Then the office. Now the next shift is starting to emerge: bring your own agent. Ten years ago, bring your own device was a workplace trend. Employers increasingly expected people to have their own phone, their own laptop, and…
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Executive Coaching Is Expensive. Daily Accountability Doesn’t Have to Be
One of the most useful things for personal productivity isn’t a to-do app. It isn’t a new notebook, a better calendar, or a more elaborate morning routine either. It’s having someone ask good questions on a regular basis. That’s the real value of executive coaching. A good coach helps you decide what matters, pushes back…
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What You’re Really Avoiding Isn’t the Work
Everyone has a version of this. A category of work that sits on the to-do list for weeks, then months, slowly accumulating guilt. For some founders it’s legal. For others it’s HR, compliance, or investor reporting. For me, it’s always been accounting. Not because I can’t do math. Because every time I opened QuickBooks, I’d…
