The Signalist

We like to be surrounded by people who think similarly to us. This makes us feel safe and keeps our ego satisfied. There is nothing particularly bad about it, because it's hard to imagine a workplace where every decision becomes a constant battle over who

Imagine living in an old town. Beautiful coffee shops, fancy restaurants, hand-made craft stands. The city is wealthy, and so are the people who run its local businesses, yet they rarely need to talk to each other. They prefer to work independently, make

In past weeks, I've been thinking a lot about agentic AI and its impact on human work in the long term. While doing so, I came across a wide spectrum of opinions from very pessimistic to naively optimistic, although I've rarely seen something in between.

I remember the confidence of walking into the room already knowing what, and how we should build. I couldn't resist speaking first, sharing with everyone the direction we need to go. Isn't that what I was being paid for? Why waste time on meetings while t

I remember sitting with a colleague a few years ago. A conversation that started about nothing in particular quickly became one of the most productive exchanges I'd had in a while: problems I'd been thinking about for a long time simply disappeared. The s

I've been observing several teams with high adoption of AI coding agents recently. PR volume is up, and perceptions of productivity are higher. The surface looks healthy. But engineers naturally seek the simplest path to a working solution. This is mostly