Essays on GenAI adoption and management work.
Notes on GenAI adoption, management judgment, AI-native education, and the less visible work of making new tools survive inside routines. Longer product and workflow notes also appear on Built at Rehearsal.
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Will AI Replace Managers, or Move the Bottleneck?
AI will not remove managerial responsibility. It will move the bottleneck from producing work to judging, reviewing, and redesigning work.
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What Corporate Employees Should Learn About GenAI Before Prompt Engineering
Corporate employees do need GenAI skills, but prompt engineering is too narrow a starting point. The real skill is knowing where AI belongs in work.
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'AI-Native' Is Not a Marketing Term for Universities. Here Is What It Means.
Three Indian B-schools claim to be 'first AI-native.' The honest translation of the term, from how a16z and YC use it, exposes a contract problem most B-schools are avoiding.
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Why I Stopped Writing Prompts and Started Writing Skills
Six months of building writing skills, audit pipelines, and self-correcting agents taught me one thing: the prompt is the wrong primitive. Here is the stack I switched to.
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Why Context Engineering Is a Management Problem
Most enterprises treat context engineering as a prompt or RAG problem. The real bottleneck is upstream: which source wins, which exception matters, who's accountable for the recommendation.
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When Expertise Stops Helping With AI
Research from Stanford, Harvard, and Carnegie Mellon points to a pattern leaders need to understand: AI can help less-experienced workers more when experts stay attached to old processes.
For organisation work, start with the business problem.
Write with the audience, function, cohort size, and the GenAI adoption problem you want the programme to solve.
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