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Only as Much Chaos as You can Handle
Before the probabilistic age, we were the fuzzy ones. Quality systems existed to allow humans to be imperfect inside processes that were themselves predictable, supported and monitored by machines that behaved consistently. Governance was human, workloads were human, but the software and hardware beneath them, when given the same configuration and the same inputs, would…
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It’s a Vibe
So I thought I should really test myself, build something basic, because it isn’t fair or professional to keep telling people it isn’t as good as they are being told it is. So I paid for Copilot, and I dreamt up a project that I thought would be both simple and fun – and importantly…
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The Changing Role of CTOs in Early Stage Organisations
I received a commissioned report on CTO compensation this morning—excellent reading. It’s well-researched, with a solid breadth of data across stages and sectors. But this slide on fiat compensation for tech leaders really stopped me. The numbers for Growth-stage and beyond match what I see in my own network. But Early-stage and Bootstrapped? Are there…
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AI on AI
Like the aye-aye in the dark forest, AI moves quietly through the systems we’ve built — tapping, listening, sensing. It doesn’t bulldoze its way in; it weaves itself through the cracks, threading into finance, education, medicine, art, and even our daily conversations. It’s a long, curious digit reaching into data, gently uncovering patterns, connections, and…
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The End of Culture
Maybe what we could be experiencing is not just an optic shift but a real movement towards employee led initiatives, or even better to tools that give the employees agency in looking after their own and their teammates wellbeing and proving empirically the value that they provide to the employer?
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Product Market S*it(talk)
Working with investors, how many times a day or week do you hear the phrase – when they achieve Product Market Fit or some derivative of it?
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The DAO of Who?
“Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, ‘This isn’t supposed to be happening this way,’ and trying harder to make it happen some other way.” – Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
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