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AI at the Core vs AI at the Edge

Decide whether to sprinkle AI onto existing code or rebuild the workflow with the LLM as the core

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Boundaries Are What You Will Do

A real boundary is something you will do that requires the other person to do nothing — anything else is just a request

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Connect Before Correcting

Join someone's reality for 30 agenda-free seconds before you ask them to do anything — connection is the bridge to cooperation

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Critique in Public, Build Trust in Private

Invert the management-book rule: debate directly in public, lavish reassurance in private.

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Don't Be Stingy With Words

People can't read your mind — make appreciation explicit, and never fake it.

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Ethnographic Insight Over Stated Preference

Observe what customers do, not what they say — AI transcript-reading is not true customer insight

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Extract the Chain-of-Thought, Not the Recommendation

Treat every advisor as an LLM: mine their reasoning, not their verdict, because their answer is trained on a different corpus.

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Fast-Thinking / Slow-Thinking Org Split

Split product org into a weekly-shipping AI group and a deliberate-infrastructure group so both speeds coexist.

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Feelings That Overpower Skills

Bad behavior at any age is feelings overpowering skills — set the boundary, then teach the missing skill, don't just punish

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Go All-In When the Experiment Works

Big companies experiment plenty — they fail by hedging instead of doubling down on what works.

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Productivity3 steps

Greedy-but-Smart Compute Allocation

Throw hundreds of dollars of inference at high-value problems — the value-to-cost ratio is absurd in your favor.

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I Believe You + I Believe In You

For anyone struggling, pair 'I believe you' (one foot in the hole) with 'I believe in you' (one foot out) — doing both at once is magic

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Strategy3 steps

Mega Trend vs Hype Cycle — The PhD Test

If you need a PhD to understand it, it's not a mega trend. Don't fight mega trends.

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Opinionated Simplicity

Ship one compelling opinion instead of ten confusing options — you learn faster being wrong than being neutral

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Own the Story — No Packet Loss

The leader is the custodian of the message — deliver it to the front line yourself, never via cascade.

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Passion-Project Learning (An Eval for Your Life)

Learn new tech by picking one passion project that forces you to touch everything you need to learn

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Pick Hard Problems to Attract the Best Team

Hard, important problems attract the best people — and business is a team sport.

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Play-First AI Fluency

Build real AI intuition by playing — invent fun side projects, use everything, and share the artifact not the doc.

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Right to Win via Permission to Play

Before building, ask if it's logical that YOU built it — and whether you have a route to market.

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Separate Behavior From Identity (Good Inside)

Say 'this is a good person who is late' — split who someone is from what they did, so the conversation can actually be about the behavior

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Strategy Activation via Crossing the Chasm

Treat internal strategy rollout as an adoption curve — over-communicate the why and manage early adopters vs laggards

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Sturdy Leadership (The Three Pilot Announcements)

Validate someone's experience as real without being overwhelmed by it — like a pilot who contains the cabin's fear and flies the plane

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The Full-Stack Role Collapse

In the AI era every role needs a minimum baseline in the adjacent two — deep in one, dangerous in the rest.

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Mindset3 steps

The Most Generous Interpretation (MGI)

Ask 'what's the most generous interpretation of why they did that?' to turn judgment into curiosity and unlock better interventions

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The Power of Repair

Rebuild trust after a bad moment by owning your part, naming the impact, and stating what you'll do differently

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The Refounding Test

Ask how you'd rebuild AI-native from scratch — then decide whether your legacy asset helps or you should sell.

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The Sharp Problem

Build for old, enduring needs re-imagined with new tech so the improvement is 3-10x undeniable

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The Shipyard Team

Organize product work as a six-capability pod of controlled chaos with sensory 'tendrils' to customers

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The Six-Factor Company Stack Rank

Timing > market > team > product > brand > distribution — you need all six, ranked.

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Vibes Before Evals

For a genuinely new AI feature, start with open-ended vibes testing; add evals only once the use-case cluster is clear.

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