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Burning the Furniture
Source: “Coinbase didn’t just lay off 14% of its staff due to AI. It replaced managers with ‘player-coaches’ and turned its org chart upside down” — …
4 months ago
What Sven Forgot to Build:
Reactive to: “The World’s Most Surprising Capitalist Makeover Is Under Way in Sweden,” by Tom Fairless, The Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2026. https:…
4 months ago
What the Document Can’t Hold: The Limits of Standardized Work and the Fount of Tacit Knowledge
For ten weeks I’ve been making the case that frontline intelligence is systematically suppressed — by Taylor’s design, across industries, with devast…
4 months, 1 week ago
What Marc Andreessen Couldn’t Say
Marc Andreessen went on Joe Rogan’s podcast recently and was asked one question.
Sell it.
He sputtered. He invoked Newton. He invoked alchemy. He invok…
4 months, 1 week ago
Direction Without Magnitude
Mark Crowley has written something rare in a leadership column: he has named the right thing. Workplace leaders, he argues, are trained on what can b…
4 months, 1 week ago
Most Business Books Die on the Shelf
Pull a business book off your shelf. Any business book. Look at the publication date. If it was published before 2020, ask yourself an honest questio…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Word He Almost Used
Paul Osterman has written the diagnosis we needed. In a Bloomberg Businessweek essay drawn from his forthcoming Harvard University Press book, he doc…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Sanctuary Was Rented
Source: “Why Two Big Companies Just Cut Paid Family Leave,” Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, May 11, 2026. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
A Section of the Wall ( Memorial Day 2026)
It is Memorial Day, and the country pauses to read names on walls.
This morning the Vatican released Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humani…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Strange and Awful Path: Why Construction Workers Make Less Than They Did in 1970
Source: Goolsbee, A. & Syverson, C. (2023). “The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the U.S. Construction Sector.” NBER Working Paper, Univers…
4 months, 3 weeks ago