May 2026
What’s a middle manager anyways?
AI won’t kill middle management. It will reveal how much of it was organizational duct tape.

Most likely, you're using AI at work in a bullshit way. Here's how to recognize that...and fix it.
AI won’t kill middle management. It will reveal how much of it was organizational duct tape.
After many improvements by the people of Cartown, the airplane wasn’t much of an airplane anymore.
Optimization made us efficient. AI may demand something different.
They build instead of buy. They want your API, not your UI.
Essays on technology, work, and the risk of optimizing the wrong thing.