Rethink AI Overuse: Teams, Products, Quality Impact
It’s refreshing to question HOW teams use AI, and the impact it has on teams, products, quality. Especially the overuse question This is coming from one of the most popular AI agent tools, OpenCode btw
Align Decisions with Business Goals, Even if Unpopular
It's okay if the business or tech teams don't 'like' a decision. If it aligns with overall business goals, the added cost or complexity might be worth it. Off-the-shelf software might not be ideal, but if it drives objectives, it...
AI Forces Founders to Rethink Org Structures From First Principles
For a long time great advice for founders was “don’t try to innovate on basic organizational practices.” The roles you need, executive jobs, ratios, spend in each area, and operational methods are kind of known in major classes of company....
Handwritten Lists Unlock Focus and Real Progress
Some of the most productive people in the world still rely on a surprisingly simple tool: a notebook and a pen. ✍️📓 Writing things down by hand activates a different part of the brain. It slows your thinking just enough to...
Design the Decision System: Founders' Ultimate Leverage
The 3 Layers of Founder Leverage: 1. Doing the work. 2. Deciding what gets done. 3. Designing the system that decides. Most founders stop at level 2.
Messier Starts Boost Idea Implementation to 80%
MIT: When teams began with higher clarity, their project implementation rate was ~50%, However, when teams began with lower clarity and worked through a messier and more chaotic process, more than 80% of their ideas were implemented https://t.co/tprVZxbr8B #Agile #Innovation
Align Tasks with Your Energy for Peak Productivity
Energy management is part of productivity. Match your task intensity to current mental state. Stop fighting your own biology.
Redesign Work, Not Just Add AI to Existing Jobs
Most companies are using AI to optimize the past. That’s the problem. ❌ They’re asking how to make people a little faster, meetings a little shorter, workflows a little cheaper. Useful? Of course. Transformational? Not even close. The 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 is not about adding...
Listening Deeply Revealed Hidden DevOps‑Dev Tensions
Early in my leadership years I was told the devops team was frustrated and felt disrespected by the dev team (I was director of dev at the time). I was blindsided and took it seriously, researching email/slack conversations, talking to...
Master Success by Defining What You Won’t Build
"What won't you build?" has always been the most important question. Knowing what you'll say no to is always more useful than knowing what you'll say yes to. This is true with most everything. Who won't you hire? Which company or client...
Productivity Begins With Mindset, Not Just Tools
Most productivity advice starts with tools. My new book starts somewhere else. Productiveness: the state of being productive. Follow the quiet build: https://t.co/S2Z73N4u1G https://t.co/vgR8kcI0Ma
Senior Review Required for AI-Generated Code After Outages
After several outages due to junior engineers pushing AI-generated code, Amazon is requiring senior engineers to sign off on them going forward. History has taught us bugs scale linearly with lines of code. So if you ship 2x or 10x the...
Stop Endless Lists: Use COD for Focused Execution
It says everything can be done today. It can’t. COD teaches you to: • Capture without stress • Organise with intention • Execute with time limits No more endless lists. Just focused execution. Create your own COD system and finally feel ahead. https://t.co/edEGsruY96 https://t.co/x9978TRTqA
Machine Learning Shifts KPI Focus to Right Signals
How machine learning reframes KPI design: systems optimize relentlessly. So the real leadership question isn’t “Are we tracking performance?” It’s “Are we tracking the right signals?” https://t.co/FfVafJZaUk via @mitsmr #AI #MWC26 https://t.co/o1UyJfrMjc
Build High‑Performance Product Teams with Proven Templates
Building a High Performance Product Team 📅 Tuesday, 10 March ⏰ 17:00 – 18:00 GMT 📍 Register: https://luma.com/rpc851ts How are the best product organisations actually built? Join this workshop where we’ll share practical tips and free templates to help you: • Define what good looks...
Chaos Reveals Opportunity: Optimize During Organizational Transitions
I've noticed something about the organizations that tend to bring me in for optimization and strategy work. They're almost always in some state of chaos. Restructures still working their way through the system. New leadership with new priorities. Strategic pivots that...
All Project Details Captured, Searchable, Never Forgotten
For 25 active projects, every meeting, deliverable, client input, and artifact is captured in this tool. It offers incredible depth, creating a searchable record of every conversation and decision, so nothing is forgotten. #ProjectManagement #Productivity https://t.co/nXjixrpHjy
Bezos: Write First, Think Better, Run Better Meetings
Jeff Bezos on how to run effective meetings by adopting a writing culture. Read to improve your writing. Write to improve your thinking. https://t.co/D4cOCgUMtY
Stop Improvising—Use Free Tools to Structure Your Life
“I can't do it, I’m too disorganized.” Notion: Free Folder system: Free Written steps: Free My templates: Free Weekly review: Free How about you stop improvising and start structuring?
Empower, Recognize, and Reward: Define Your Leadership Style
"I never give a score of 5." This is what one of my managers told me once as we started our annual review. Not exactly the motivation that I was expecting, and the more she tried to justify it, the...
Leverage Comes From Workflow, Not AI Tools
AI tools don’t create leverage. Workflows do. Generation → Coordination → Automation → Output Pick the workflow first. The tools reveal themselves. https://t.co/NBjfpEQDKg
Scale by Orchestrating, Not by Doing Everything Yourself
One of my students made $74K last year and burned out. This year, he’ll clear that by the end of Q1. How? He‘s not working harder. He’s directing three projects right now where he’s not doing the work. He came to me a...
From Corporate Ceiling to Freedom: Crafting Clarity
I didn’t set out to build a business management agency. I set out to build freedom. By 29 I’d hit the glass ceiling in corporate. On paper, I was flying. Youngest operational manager across the UK, Europe and Australasia, big budgets,...
Leave Space in Your Schedule for Real Productivity
Most weekly plans fail for one simple reason: we try to fit too much into too little time. A productive week isn’t built by packing every hour with tasks. It’s built by creating breathing room so you can think, adjust, and focus...
Turning Strategy Slides Into Real Decision Power
Companies often have strategy slides. But when real decisions happen, people still ask: “What does strategy mean here?” On March 17 at 10 AM ET I’m joining Adam Zales of Amplify to discuss how strategy leaders translate strategy into action. #Strategy #Innovation #Leadership #CorporateStrategy...
Startups Ditch Copilot as Developers Favor Claude, Codex
Actually, I do hear more startups “taking away” GitHub Copilot from devs - and no one is complaining at those places. Because those devs don’t use Copilot, and are on tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor agents etc. So companies...
Automate Any Web Task with Simple Text Prompts
You can now automate any browser workflow with just a text prompt. Skyvern just killed the "you need custom scripts" excuse for web automation. It uses Vision LLMs + computer vision to navigate websites it's never seen before. → Fill out any form...
Silent Complaints Reveal Hidden Leadership Blind Spots
Most people think they are doing ok in their leadership role bc no one is complaining. A few recent clients thought the same thing. When we went through an audit, what we actually found: - Stepping in to do the work of other...
Choose Impact Over Title: Management Isn't Mandatory
Before you decide to be a manager, you should think hard about whether it's the right path for you. Because you don't have to do it. Especially if you don't really want to, but believe the management ladder is the...
Fix Blind Spots, Turn Good Intentions Into True Leadership
Weak leadership can hide behind good intentions... but your team feels the difference every day. Fix these blind spots, and you won’t just be a better manager, you’ll build a team that wants to follow you. (Repost from a few months ago) #management #leadership...
Simplify to Five Essentials for a Sustainable Knowledge System
↓ If your knowledge system feels like a second job to maintain, you have too many moving parts. I've coached hundreds of people through building these systems and the pattern is always the same. Too many tags, too many databases, too...
AI's Real Power Lies in Boosting Organizational Efficiency
The "how does AI improve individual productivity" discussion is much less interesting than "how does AI improve organizational efficiency?" We have a lot of answers to the former, but it will always get eaten by the latter if we don't...
Hire Coachable, Curious Sellers to Scale Growth
In #TheScienceOfScaling , I emphasize that the type of seller who thrives in PMF is not the same type who thrives in Growth & Moat. Early-stage success often comes from process builders. Scaling success comes from process executors. A rigorous...
Choose What Matters: COD Decision Framework Boosts Progress
Most of us were trained to grind. Very few were taught how to decide. COD is your decision framework: ✔ What gets captured ✔ What gets scheduled ✔ What gets ignored Less guilt. More progress. Master Collect, Organise, Do for FREE. https://t.co/edEGsruY96 https://t.co/Ov1xW8eM3P
Map Work Before Tools: Stop Duplicating Processes
Buying more AI tools won’t fix broken workflows. Cisco found 75% of project management tasks are identical across departments. Most companies redesign in silos and duplicate the effort. Map the work first. Redesign second. Deploy tools third. https://t.co/n8xR4tuo7g
Lemon Adds 10 Hours Weekly by Auto‑clustering Feedback
Product Managers: your week just got 10 hours longer. The amount of time we waste clustering raw user feedback or formatting Jira tickets is insane. With Lemon, you just highlight the messy notes, press Ctrl, and say "cluster this into 3...
First-Year CEO Playbook: Preserve, Learn, and Improve Quickly
Lessons from 60+ search fund deals and a few guiding principles for a new CEO’s first year at an acquired company (from seasoned search fund investor Tim Ludwig): 1. Do no harm. You (or the investors) bought a good business....
Human‑AI Hybrid Teams Define the Future of Work
🚀 The Future of Work is Humans with AI The workplace is undergoing one of the most profound transformations in modern history. Rapid technological progress, shifting employee expectations, and global disruption are redefining how work gets done. But the biggest change isn't...
Corporate Strengths Can Become Small Business Traps
C-Suite Skills That Can Hurt You in Small Business. Why corporate strengths can become small business traps. https://t.co/MoFjG79ZNj https://t.co/S0CdFXiYiy
Streamline Book Club Admin with Simple Productivity Hacks
📅 Want to reduce the workload of running the book club? ✅ I shared simple productivity moves like calendar invites and templates for reminders. 📨 Less admin work means more time for the conversation that matters. https://t.co/4Iyy80KjlQ
Fix Your Filter, Not the To‑do List
Your to-do list isn’t broken. Your filter is. COD forces clarity: Collect everything. Organise what matters. Do only what fits your time. That’s how you stop drowning in fake urgency. Build your COD system in 45 minutes. Free. Start today. https://t.co/eZT3EYpmer https://t.co/Um29jPGeff
Solving Real Pain, Community Focus Drives HashiCorp’s Success
9 interesting observations from my conversation with Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh, creator of Ghostty, founder of HashiCorp): 1. Vagrant was created because dev environment setup was an unbillable time sink at a consultancy. At the Ruby on Rails shop where Mitchell worked, jumping...
Productivity Comes From Structure, Not Endless Grinding
I'm proud to say that I've reached a point where I no longer believe productivity = intensity. Grinding harder is a scam. Real productivity is structural. Designing your day so the important work is unavoidable and everything else is inconvenient is the real...
Build New, Skip Legacy: Embrace First‑Principles Future
so much easier to build something new than change something old especially amidst platform shifts, having less change management lets you anchor w/ first principles, ignore sunk costs, and build what you see your industry being 3+ years from now…
Separate Trade‑offs: Speed vs Quality, Deadline vs Scope
Rather than “speed, quality, cost: pick 2”… My sense is: • speed vs quality -and separately- • deadline vs scope -and separately- • turning speed vs scale Thoughts?
Productivity: Measure Finished Assets, Not Hours Worked
Most people “work” all day. But very few complete meaningful outputs. I think it's time we stop measuring by hours spent and instead measure by finished assets. Did you ship something concrete? If not, you were busy, not productive.
Break Silos: Use Cross‑Functional Squads for OKR Success
32 Reasons Why OKRs Fail Reason #7: Functional silos. Department OKRs (per the org-chart) deepen fragmentation. What works: "x-functional squads/pods" Merge highly dependent teams into "OKR teams" like "sales/mareting", "prod/eng" Listen for more: https://t.co/FP8sxyXKnh
Design a Resilient Productivity System Beyond Willpower
Motivation is unstable. Energy fluctuates. Life happens. Your productivity system must survive travel, meetings, bad sleep, and chaotic weeks. The Ultimate Productivity Workshop helps you build a realistic, resilient structure that works even when you don’t feel like it. Stop depending on willpower. Start depending on...
Structure Turns Daily Grind Into Six‑Figure Success
16: No structure 19: Sleeping late, drifting 20: Busy all day, nothing done 21-23: Grinding without direction 24: Started planning my weeks 25: Built a 6 figure online business Productivity really does compound.
Systems Build Exponential Wealth; Hustle Only Gives Linear Income
The math of getting rich is simple: • Hustle = Linear Income • Systems = Exponential Wealth Most founders choose hustle. Smart founders choose systems.