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Galileo proved that nothing can grow much larger and keep its shape: weight outruns strength. AI just made one person the size of a department, and the people who thrive will be the ones who grow new bones. … readNo Giants Without New Bones
Extreme results are partly luck, and luck does not repeat, so whatever we do at our worst moment gets credit for a recovery that was already coming. Personal AI is the first thing that can keep that account honest, starting with itself. … readBetter Anyway
The cost already paid is the same under every choice you have left, so it can never decide between them. AI delegates are about to obey that rule for us, and the past will split in two: what we paid, which owes us nothing, and what we promised, which still binds. … readWhat’s Done Is Done
Two strangers who cannot talk still find each other, because some answers are obvious to both. For all of history the obvious answer was made of shared history. AI is about to make it out of a shared machine, and this time the clock has an owner. … readThe New Grand Central
A 1969 book explained why the best worker makes a poor manager: the promotion rewards the job you had, not the one you are given. AI just handed that promotion to everyone at once, minus the half of management that breaks hearts. What remains is the half nobody practised. … readEveryone Just Got Promoted
A book for my students on the one sentence I teach about careers: let your first employer be your first customer. Why firms hire, how the job became a bundle, why low fixed costs are the whole strategy, and what your own AI changes about the line between employee and vendor. … readFirst Customer
Followers give their attention to a creator because they judge that person worthy of it. AI slop violates that choice when the creator quietly sends a substitute. Your AI can clear the morning; when someone is worthy of your attention, you show up. … readI Chose You. You Sent Your AI Instead.
A lesson for my students on what to delegate, from Exodus 18: send the small matters down, respect rank and order, and never send your AI to a person who is worthy of your own attention. … readThe Great Matters
We call AI that acts for us an agent, a word named for what it does. The better word is delegate, from the Latin delegare: named for who sent it, bound by a mandate, and owing you a report when it comes back. … readMy AI Delegate
The word “user” describes a relationship with an object. AI is not a tool, so you don’t use it. You manage it. You are not its user but its manager, and delegation only runs one way: down, to something that answers to you. … readYou Are Not the User