Leadership

• You Can’t Build Better Software Without Reordering Status

  AI can help bury the gap between intent and implementation, but only if organizations let it reorder the status markers around software. Otherwise they'll replay the same transformation failures in a faster loop.

• Builder-Leaders Finally Get Their Tools Back

  Builder-leaders spent careers choosing between building and leading. AI agents are ending that tradeoff — and it turns out the judgment they developed as leaders is exactly what working with agents requires.

• How I Came to Appreciate Governance

  Agentic AI is bringing governance back into the room. This is a personal reflection on why I’ve come to see the good version of it as an enabler, and the bad version as fear with a badge.

• Agents Are Employees, Not Prompts

  Why the employee metaphor produces better management instincts than the prompt metaphor when you're building agentic systems.

• How I Became a Revenue Leader With Agentic Employees

  What happens when join the team? I hired three agentic employees into my team at Replicated. Learn what they did and how it changed the way I think about leadership, leverage, and org design.

• The Suit That Didn't Fit

  What if the thing that made you good before leadership is still the thing? When I stepped into sales leadership, I realized the inherited template was built for someone else. AI is making it possible for leaders to build again instead of choosing between abstraction and the tools.