Everyone is building agents. Almost nobody is building the protocol between them. That is the actual bottleneck. The moment your agent and mine need to get something done together, the interesting q...
We spend most of our energy solving the wrong problem. Organizations obsess over process, structure, hierarchy. But the real bottleneck is not how work is organized — it is how knowledge moves throug...
As a political philosopher, I used to believe that our institutions — the law, the constitution, the political system — were our defense against anti-democratic forces. I no longer hold that belief....
Four rules. That is all it takes. In Conway's Game of Life, you place cells on a grid and apply four simple rules about survival and reproduction. No central controller. No master plan. Just local in...
Every team has one. The person everyone goes to. The one who knows how the system actually works, why that decision was made two years ago, where the real dependencies are. They are indispensable. An...
"Have your agent call my agent" sounds like a punchline. It is actually an architecture. Your agent knows what you know. Mine knows what I know. The protocol between them connects our expertise witho...
We have been telling people to find work that matters. But we have not changed the structures that make meaningful work nearly impossible. Remote work solved geography. AI is solving productivity. B...
In professional kitchens, 86'd means something is off the menu. The kitchen ran out, or the chef pulled it. But nobody told the servers. So a server promises it to a table, walks back to the pass, and...
What if the most effective team member you work with is not human? A few years back, I was asked to design a vision for online collaboration where team members might never be in the same room. The an...
Your AI implementation is failing at collaboration. Not because the model is weak or your engineers are not skilled, but because nobody actually knows who knows what. This is the transactive memory p...