AI is replacing inefficiencies at speed. The workers it displaces stop consuming. Through Lyn Alden’s monetary lens, this is not a recession — it is a structural demand void. And through the planetary lens, it may be the forced degrowth humanity needs, arriving in the worst possible way.
If your team spends most of its time managing a ticketing system — filing requests, triaging queues, waiting for answers — you have already made your collaboration legible to a machine.
That is not a metaphor. Ticketing systems only work for the kind of work AI handles well: routine, well-defined, known destination, repeatable process. If your collaboration looks like a queue, it can be automated. And it will be.
AI, capital, and the leverage you didn’t know you had
AI decoupled doing from learning. Every knowledge worker now faces a constant trade-off between the two. The ones who choose learning look slower today and become irreplaceable tomorrow.
AI accelerates the Peter’s Principle by letting people produce senior-level output without building senior-level understanding — creating a new class of ‘Senior Operators’ who have mastered the interface, not the craft.
Your p50 time-to-production is the single most predictive metric of developer happiness, value delivery, and organizational health.
The brown compromise happens when blending everyone’s preferences leads to a result nobody wants. Learn how to escape this trap in product decisions.
Our minds oscillate between openness and closure. Understanding these rhythms is key to cultivating happiness, flow states, and personal growth.
Reflections on being laid off and the 1-to-0 transition. What losing your job teaches about addiction to work, identity, and finding happiness.
Why product managers should master choice architecture. Insights from Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein applied to product design and decision-making.