The Newsletter
Human in the Loop
Notes on high agency, human + agent teams, and the ideas behind Going Agentic.
- AgencyStanding Intent
Execution Is a Place to Hide
Doing the work feels productive even when it's avoidance. When agents take over execution, the hiding place disappears and you're left with the question you were dodging: what do you actually want?
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- ManagementHuman + Agent Teams
You Just Became a Manager. Nobody Told You.
If your work now means reviewing what something else produced and signing for it, you got promoted and nobody told you. Directing work fails differently than doing it. Here's the craft to learn.
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- ProductivityThe Flat Spot
The Floor Moved and Nobody Sent a Memo
The tools got faster and you got busier, not freer. Output expectations reset seven to eightfold and nobody sent a memo. Why the plateau is invisible from inside, and the one move that gets you off it.
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- DelegationGetting Started
Begin With Two, Not With Ten
Everyone reaches for ten streams and regrets it. Two run properly will teach you more in a month than ten run badly teach you in a year. Why to start smaller than feels impressive, and how.
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- AgencyAI
The High-Agency Advantage: Why Ownership Beats Talent in the Age of Agents
When AI agents can execute almost anything, raw talent stops being the bottleneck. What's scarce now is agency, the will to decide, to start, and to own the outcome. Here's why the highest-agency people are about to pull away from everyone else.
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- TeamsAI Agents
You're Not Managing People or Machines. You're Orchestrating Both.
The new unit of performance isn't the individual or the team, it's the human + agent team. The leaders who win the next decade won't be the best managers of people or the best users of AI. They'll be the best orchestrators of both together.
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- MomentumHabits
Momentum Is a Practice: How Small Agentic Actions Compound
Lasting success is a slope, not a spike. It doesn't come from one heroic push, it comes from small, agentic actions taken relentlessly until they compound. Here's how to build momentum you can actually keep.
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